Example sentences of "[Wh det] is [verb] [prep] grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 2 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 3 | This aspect of Richards 's work is worth stressing , because it expresses a belief which is taken for granted by a great deal of literary scholarship and criticism , and which from a more modern point of view may well seem somewhat naive . |
| 4 | These show how what is taken for granted in one society would be looked upon as being not only strange but perhaps also immoral in another society . |
| 5 | Pupils as well as teachers should be aware of secularist tendencies in what is taken for granted in our society and in the educational world , and they should realize that these are not beyond being questioned . |