Example sentences of "are take for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any argument you develop , we have suggested that it is important to distinguish between views you are taking for granted , views you are directly asserting and views with which you disagree . |
| 2 | As past achievements are taken for granted and new challenges emerge , so voters may look for alternative leaders . |
| 3 | Hidden divisions are taken for granted . |
| 4 | I think that the things that are taken for granted |
| 5 | I think that the things that are taken for granted at home , make a deeper impression upon children than what they are told . |
| 6 | It is surprising the extent to which published numbers are taken for granted as reliable . |
| 7 | This should be your aim , to know your presentation so well that the mechanics of offering it are taken for granted . |
| 8 | The particular health needs of later life are perceived as a low priority , with older people actually being excluded from services which are taken for granted by younger patients . |
| 9 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 10 | Nowadays , in most industrialised countries , national measures to ensure safe water are taken for granted but in several developing countries , polluted water is a major cause of diarrhoeal disease , often with a high mortality rate . |
| 11 | The potentially off-putting nature of these expressions of church life to the new convert are taken for granted by C S Lewis in The Screwtape Letters . |
| 12 | One is that sex differences are taken for granted , naturalised . |
| 13 | They are taken for granted and are not getting value for their money or support . |
| 14 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 15 | Culture , on the other hand , refers to more deep-rooted assumptions , beliefs and values which are often on a preconscious level , things that are taken for granted . |
| 16 | As the sense of self , they provide the basic attitudes and perspectives which are taken for granted in relations with the external world , by virtue of the extent to which they are models into which that world must be assimilated . |
| 17 | The main deficiency of such approaches , however , is that they locate the ‘ problem of disability ’ in the individual and in the effectivity or otherwise of her/his adjustment to a set of beliefs , values and practices which are taken for granted . |
| 18 | All too frequently choirs and musicians , as well as servers , are taken for granted because of their being in church Sunday by Sunday . |
| 19 | In the west , lichens are taken for granted — bushes and trees are often festooned with them — while in the drier east , fewer species survive , partly also because of acidic air pollution . |
| 20 | Many of the basic Windows techniques are taken for granted in the rush to produce better and better Windows applications — assuming that everyone understands Windows inside out . |
| 21 | The international comparison further helps to pick out significant aspects of family and culture which are taken for granted in one country , yet differ in another . |
| 22 | Citation and co-citation approaches often introduce bias into measures , and central influences are often not cited , because they are taken for granted ; they become an assumed part of the research paradigm , just as the all-pervading cosmic background black-body radiation is a palimpsest of the universe 's original Big Bang . |
| 23 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 24 | Within religions of Indian origin , such as Hinduism , Buddhism and Sikhism , certain views of reality being as it is are taken for granted , such as dharma — the existence of a moral law , and karma — the impact of this on individuals according to how much they fulfil or fail to fulfil dharma , and samsara — the process of reincarnation . |
| 25 | ‘ Many parents are unemployed and the children have learned to go without many things that are taken for granted in other areas , ’ she said . |
| 26 | This is not because they are taken for granted — quite the reverse , for each one of them is valued more with each year that passes . |