Example sentences of "was taken for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was taken for the army , the light in their house would be damped out forever . |
| 2 | Whilst Harry 's replies were being vetted , his photo was taken for a false identity card , and his uniform and shoes exchanged for a civilian outfit . |
| 3 | By 1959 they were a joke and the title of a film which simply stated a philosophy that was taken for granted . |
| 4 | The story reveals how , just as it was taken for granted that God 's authority should prevail throughout all life , so the use of Roman coins symbolised how much the Roman emperor 's authority prevailed throughout the Roman empire . |
| 5 | But I remember too that it was always unwise to fuss too much over what was taken for then she becomes anxious herself and her throat seizes up and nothing can go down … oh , sir , she seems very ill . ’ |
| 6 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 7 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 8 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 9 | It was taken for granted , as we have also seen , that education was a social benefit , and therefore , in the new post-war democracy , something to which everyone was entitled . |
| 10 | The superiority of the abstract over the concrete , the theoretical over the practical , was taken for granted by the Greeks , and also by all education based on the classical model . |
| 11 | It was taken for granted that where the ‘ bucks ’ predominated , the stick was the first resort , and the law an afterthought . |
| 12 | ‘ So — British and Cosmopolitan was taken for a small fortune — and taken for fools too by the seem of it . |
| 13 | The services of the Hawes Silver Band are still employed to accompany the hymns and they played a march while a collection was taken for St Matthew 's Church and Swaledale Fell Rescue Team . |
| 14 | It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted . |
| 15 | More than £250,000 gate money was taken for the second day of the June test against Pakistan , and the decision could open the floodgates for other claims . |
| 16 | In the Eighties one High Street bank was taken for £15 million but struck a deal not to prosecute if the money was returned . |
| 17 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |
| 18 | In these analyses linking grammatical gender with sex , it was taken for granted that the three genders — masculine , feminine and neuter — embodied a hierarchy of value . |
| 19 | The man , from Helen 's home town Horndean , near Portsmouth , was taken for questioning on Wednesday but police only released news of his arrest yesterday . |
| 20 | A collection totalling £375 was taken for the work of Christian Aid and CAFOD , and refreshments were served afterwards in the new parish hall . |
| 21 | Although the Labour Party adopted a policy of ‘ comprehensive education for all ’ in 1951 no political action to implement it was taken for another 14 years . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , for all these differences , it was taken for granted in both agrarian and industrial Europe that society was split for its practical working into a small élite which ran things , and a large mass which was subordinate . |
| 23 | A similar approach was taken for HLA-B35 ( HLA-B3501 ) , which was not significantly associated with altered resistance to severe malaria in the Gambian case-control study of malaria susceptibility . |
| 24 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 25 | Data were recorded at clinic visits every two weeks , at which time blood was taken for measurement of fructosamine concentrations . |
| 26 | While war 's excesses were often condemned , war itself was taken for granted . |
| 27 | However , as ‘ men of learning ’ , clergymen were able to promulgate a view of the world which was taken for granted by most of the population , a world view which included the notion that the supremacy of the king , the privileges of the nobility and the lowly position of serfs were all ordained by God . |
| 28 | The organic connection between the four elements was taken for granted . |
| 29 | It was taken for granted that the introduction of women generally to any trade carried the risk of lowering wages ; basically because as we have seen , the wages paid for " women 's work " were so low . |
| 30 | In school this progressive acquisition of domestic technology was taken for granted , and we felt sorry for those children who lagged behind . |