Example sentences of "is [adv] take for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally taken for granted ( by members of society and governments alike ) that investments should bring profit and that the living standards of the propertyless should be based on the demands of the market for their skills . |
| 2 | a senior staff member to examine statistics regularly so that the situation is not taken for granted . |
| 3 | When compliance is not taken for granted , to is used in order to " futurize " the infinitive event 's actualization , i.e. to evoke it as something which the person receiving the request may or may not decide to do . |
| 4 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 5 | To begin with , it implies that the curriculum is some advance on pre-theoretical or commonsense knowledge ( Berger and Luckmann 1971 ) , treating as problematic what is normally taken for granted . |
| 6 | now this does not bother me as my presence is usually taken for granted . |
| 7 | Comparative study ( of different languages , dialects , styles , etc. ) can make explicit what is usually taken for granted about language . |
| 8 | Quantification is usually taken for granted in social dialectology , but it is not used in some other branches of sociolinguistics ( for example , those researches that follow Gumperz 's model ) , and there can be disputes about whether or not it should be used in given instances . |
| 9 | But the main point is this : that irrespective of whether an analysis is embarked upon from the position of an openly stated or tacitly assumed ontological bias , or whether , on the contrary , the question of an ultimate choice of basic ontological existents is deliberately left undecided , it is usually taken for granted that the concept of an ontological existent is in general well understood . |
| 10 | It is now taken for granted that children will know their grandparents . |
| 11 | Colleagues such as New Hall , founded in 1954 , established comparatively recently a female presence in the universities , which is now taken for granted . |
| 12 | They are the generators of the material prosperity which is now taken for granted in the West . |
| 13 | Again , the skill of writing is often taken for granted , yet there are adults who are handicapped because they can not write their name . |
| 14 | She also emphasizes that we need to study the subtle effects which expectations about gender have on learning , particularly in the case of female-male differences whose biological nature is often taken for granted . |
| 15 | The provision of music and other books in church is often taken for granted . |
| 16 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 17 | Sexual compatibility itself figured low in the order of such attributes — Gorer feels that a satisfactory sexual life is frequently taken for granted — but the application of those named to sexual considerations is clear . |
| 18 | It is simply taken for granted by the public that curriculum and examinations go together . |
| 19 | There , too , one can assign a co-ordination of properties , as in ( 44 ) , or a single complex property , ( 45 ) , but it is simply taken for granted that one does not produce grammatical monstrosities such as ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) with , respectively , simultaneous and successive ( but in neither case co-ordinated ) assignment of different properties . |
| 20 | The fact/belief divide is simply taken for granted . |
| 21 | It is increasingly taken for granted that any post-war reordering of the Middle East will include a fresh bid to break the Arab-Israeli impasse . |
| 22 | Real have won the championship in each of the last four seasons , so that is almost taken for granted ; his job is to win the European Cup , which the club last lifted in 1966 . |
| 23 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 24 | This situation is doubtless taken for granted by today 's generation , yet , less than twenty-five years ago , leading statisticians were expressing concern lest interposition of the machine would so distance them from the data under consideration that the quality of analysis would suffer . |