Example sentences of "[pron] take for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he has to go bat-fowling for what I take for granted — whatever bat-fowling may be . ’ |
| 2 | And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now . |
| 3 | She is a kind and thoughtful provider — of home comfort , food , clean sheets , ironed shirts , fresh bread — all the things you take for granted at home . ’ |
| 4 | All the things you take for granted that are going to screw you up in London . |
| 5 | It is strange , as Betjeman said , that those we miss the most are those we take for granted . |
| 6 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 7 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 8 | We take for granted , too , the fact that water is liquid at normal Earthly temperatures and pressures : pure water freezes only at 0°C , and boils at 100°C ( which is how those quantities are defined ) . |
| 9 | Large areas of science we take for granted were unknown , and even unsuspected . |
| 10 | But many of the household products and home improvements that we take for granted are potentially harmful . |
| 11 | We take for granted our capacity to heal cuts and scratches , knit broken bones and cure colds . |
| 12 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 13 | According to Schutz , we take for granted that the world works in a reasonably rational and orderly way , unless and until something goes wrong . |
| 14 | It throws words like real and normal into question , continually challenges and subverts the things we take for granted , the things we think we know . |
| 15 | To understand the meaning of what is said to us is a cultural accomplishment that we take for granted . |
| 16 | It was not so different from the modern , much more refined auto-landing system we take for granted today . |
| 17 | We also learn that family structure and sentiments which we take for granted are by no means universal , that forms of government that seem inevitable and natural are not necessarily so ; we confront the unpalatable finding that a strong sense of brotherhood and identity within a community usually implies equally strong hostilities towards outsiders . |
| 18 | For if they are so obsessed with witchcraft and sorcery , how can they possibly also comprehend those empirical chains of cause and effect which we take for granted and employ as the touchstone of rationality ? |
| 19 | Even in the more affluent homes , labour saving devices we take for granted today either did n't exist or were an expensive luxury . |
| 20 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 21 | Electricity is an indispensable source of energy which we take for granted in our everyday lives . |
| 22 | There are many more services available from our telephone system — many of which we take for granted . |
| 23 | Things which we take for granted as routine in the U.K. one can not in Spain . |
| 24 | We take for granted the principles that have been argued in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 25 | Between them the stories explain some of the astonishing scientific mysteries which we take for granted . |
| 26 | Large , powerful computer systems based on minicomputer architectures but built using microprocessors , were beginning to offer the sort of graphical interface and high resolution screen that we take for granted today . |
| 27 | developed from Xerox research ( like just about everything else we take for granted in desktop publishing ) these are a method of providing user control over software without cluttering up the screen with text . |
| 28 | All storms contain a force which we take for granted . |
| 29 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 30 | Over the last ten years , the Government has removed many of the freedoms we take for granted . |