Example sentences of "it be taken for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should be your aim , to know your presentation so well that the mechanics of offering it are taken for granted . |
| 2 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |
| 3 | If practical considerations make it desirable to put RE with another subject , then the one chosen is usually humanities or social studies , it being taken for granted that religion is an aspect of what people believe . |
| 4 | I do n't count all the deer I 've bumped into since it 's taken for granted you 'll see a few of the elegant beasts galloping away over the heather no matter which hill you 're on . |
| 5 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 6 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |
| 7 | It is taken for granted that they bring with them their housekeeping skills . |
| 8 | There are moments of natural awakening to one 's own beauty , but it is rare that it is really appreciated in the early years of womanhood ; usually it is taken for granted , and only lamented when it is gone . |
| 9 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |
| 10 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |
| 11 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 12 | The speed and extent of this physical change , since it is taken for granted once accomplished , have considerable implications . |
| 13 | It is taken for granted that an institution will be sub-divided into faculties , schools , departments , units and centres ; but the epistemological implications of such subdivisions are rarely examined explicitly . |
| 14 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 15 | The unspoken assumption here , as so often elsewhere , was that crowds would impair enjoyment — a typically individualistic assumption which it is taken for granted applies to the entire population . |
| 16 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 17 | The story reveals how , just as it was taken for granted that God 's authority should prevail throughout all life , so the use of Roman coins symbolised how much the Roman emperor 's authority prevailed throughout the Roman empire . |
| 18 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 19 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 20 | It was taken for granted , as we have also seen , that education was a social benefit , and therefore , in the new post-war democracy , something to which everyone was entitled . |
| 21 | It was taken for granted that where the ‘ bucks ’ predominated , the stick was the first resort , and the law an afterthought . |
| 22 | In these analyses linking grammatical gender with sex , it was taken for granted that the three genders — masculine , feminine and neuter — embodied a hierarchy of value . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , for all these differences , it was taken for granted in both agrarian and industrial Europe that society was split for its practical working into a small élite which ran things , and a large mass which was subordinate . |
| 24 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 25 | It was taken for granted that the introduction of women generally to any trade carried the risk of lowering wages ; basically because as we have seen , the wages paid for " women 's work " were so low . |
| 26 | He was offered constituencies ; it was taken for granted that he would stand for Parliament in the first post-war elections . |
| 27 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 28 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 29 | People moved — it was taken for granted . |
| 30 | It never occurred to Robbins that there was any need to describe the internal culture of higher education ; it was taken for granted that everyone knew what it was , or at least what it should be . |