Example sentences of "[prep] grant as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 2 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 3 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 4 | The principle of paraphrase ( or " same meaning in different form " ) is one which many schools of linguistic thought continue to take for granted as a basic fact of language . |
| 5 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 6 | So , from the dominant parliamentary perspective the Left takes the British constitution for granted as a good thing , and from the insurrectionary perspective the Left sees the British constitution ( if it sees it at all ) as beyond the pale of reasoned consideration and change . |
| 7 | Europeans , almost as much as in preceding generations , took war for granted as a normal part of their lives . |
| 8 | For Edward , India had lost the only element he had liked in it — the easy affection of the Indians that he had taken for granted as a child — and gained nothing in compensation . |
| 9 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 10 | As the great boom of the 1860s and early 1870s gave way to the agrarian depression of the late 1870s and 1880s , the peasantry could no longer be taken for granted as a conservative element in politics . |
| 11 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 12 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |