Example sentences of "we take it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We take it for granted . |
| 2 | We take it for granted , but it is important that the emergent nations of the Third World — themselves , many of them , deeply divided culturally , linguistically and genetically — should see what we have achieved , and where we have fallen short . |
| 3 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 4 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 5 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 6 | In most physiological psychology we take it for granted that lesions will centre on the structure selected by the experimenter . |
| 7 | In discussing texts we idealise away from this variability of the experiencing of the text and assume what Schutz has called ‘ the reciprocity of perspective ’ , whereby we take it for granted that readers of a text or listeners to a text share the same experience ( Schutz , 1953 ) . |
| 8 | We take it for granted that organisations should have objectives . |
| 9 | We take it for granted that individual departments and even individual managers should have objectives . |
| 10 | Today we take it for granted that such antagonism must be inhibited in a civilized society and we have developed all sorts of cultural and social institutions to procure such inhibitions in the form of religious , moral and legal prohibitions backed up by agencies of social control and law-enforcement . |