Example sentences of "is take for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That is , these methods , typifications , and practices are employed by policemen and women as the main resource for accomplishing police work , and their relevance and applicability is taken for granted and never challenged . |
| 5 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 6 | In the world 's largest economies , that is taken for granted . |
| 7 | Nothing is taken for granted , everything at every period is subjected to searching scrutiny . |
| 8 | It is taken for granted that they bring with them their housekeeping skills . |
| 9 | It could equally indicate , however , that the system is taken for granted , as a right of membership of the CAB . |
| 10 | Daniel Bank 's production — especially in the acting of Campbell Graham as Scooper — lacks a sense of the aggressive competitiveness that in New York is taken for granted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In discussing identity formation at adolescence , Erikson posits that it is partly ‘ dependent on the process by which a society ( often through subsocieties ) identifies the young individual , recognising him as someone who had to become the way he is and who , being the way he is , is taken for granted . |
| 13 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |
| 14 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The speed and extent of this physical change , since it is taken for granted once accomplished , have considerable implications . |
| 21 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 22 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
| 23 | Knowledge is again not a matter of understanding pollution control technology or the biological or chemical processes involved in water purification ; such knowledge is taken for granted . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This point is of course relevant in any field situation where the researcher is studying persons in whose culture he or she does not participate , and the need to avoid offending established beliefs and values is taken for granted in anthropology texts such as that by Rynkiewich and Spradley . |
| 28 | Nor is it always illuminating ( or even possible ) in syntactic work to adopt the assumption which in quantitative phonological work is taken for granted : that the object of study is a set of surface variants expressing the same underlying semantic structure . |
| 29 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 30 | 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 . |