Example sentences of "it [prep] grant that the " 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 | They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them . |
| 3 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 4 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 5 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 6 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So far we have taken it for granted that the distinction between ambiguity and generality is intuitively obvious . |
| 13 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 14 | And the financial institutions , subscribing fully to the ideology of the ‘ smoothly functioning capital market ’ , take it for granted that the best interests of their personal sector customers are served by placing funds where they can get the ‘ best ’ and ‘ safest ’ monetary returns , regardless of the consequences for productive investment . |
| 15 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 16 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 17 | ‘ Not in so many words , but until a month or two back he took it for granted that the business would come to him . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | It would be natural to take it for granted that the model and the dress designer were one and the same . |
| 20 | Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks . |
| 21 | Acceptance of mystery — taking it for granted that the spirit is beyond our total comprehension , that this dimension can not easily be put into words , or expressed adequately in any art form . |
| 22 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 23 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |