Example sentences of "take it for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage .
2 It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies .
3 It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do .
4 To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine .
5 Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it .
6 A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ .
7 He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this .
8 George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’
9 He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle , the male the active .
10 McDonald 's belongs to a federation of companies in the same business and the area man takes it for granted that the firm 's competitors will soon hear about the relaxed consent and apply to the agency for similar leniency .
11 The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights takes it for granted not merely that all individual men are members of a single animal species , Homo sapiens , but that this biological fact carries with it moral implications .
12 As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind .
13 Yeah , she 'd started to need Dionne , pushed it aside since they were friends , and between friends you could take it for granted , since it was .
14 We can not take it for granted any longer that the division of Germany is sustainable ; in consequence , the whole European security order may be unstable .
15 The idea of taxing what most people regard as their birthright , fresh air , is startling , but perhaps Tolba is right : we should not take it for granted .
16 Do n't take it for granted that they 'll be OK .
17 Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ?
18 A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys .
19 Let us not take it for granted .
20 Emily willed her daughter to show the right amount of gratitude , she prayed that the girl would n't take it for granted .
21 The ethnomethodologist does not take it for granted .
22 Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ?
23 A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ?
24 Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time .
25 So you can not take it for granted .
26 Nor can an economist take it for granted that inflation will make people save more ( in the US they save less ) .
27 Cutting a whole sequence of further corners I shall now take it for granted that the total process by which we habitually segment and classify the things in the external world and recognize them as belonging to species entities originates in an introspective self-awareness that " I " can be distinguished from " my body " .
28 On the other hand a Kachin will always take it for granted that anyone whom he is prepared to classify as a Jinghpaw is a kinsman of some sort .
29 No longer do we take it for granted as meaning that we get a job in a company , or an industry , with the hope and intention of learning new skills , gaining experience and becoming part of an enterprise , in turn passing on skills and giving others the benefit of our experience .
30 The comfortable classes could take it for granted that such conditions were the lot of the working classes : sad but normal .
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