Example sentences of "is taken for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the world 's largest economies , that is taken for granted . |
| 6 | Nothing is taken for granted , everything at every period is subjected to searching scrutiny . |
| 7 | It is taken for granted that they bring with them their housekeeping skills . |
| 8 | It could equally indicate , however , that the system is taken for granted , as a right of membership of the CAB . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |
| 13 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The speed and extent of this physical change , since it is taken for granted once accomplished , have considerable implications . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the Politics the existence of the city-state is taken for granted . |