Example sentences of "take it [that] " in BNC.

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1 Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him .
2 What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right .
3 We suppose that this person takes it that the rule he learnt demands this continuation rather than the one we favour ( which is of course the right one ) .
4 Foundationalism takes it that there are two types of justification : inferential and non-inferential .
5 Ca ca n't you just , ca n't Jim just brief his staff , but er as far as that 's concerned w he takes it that the Q S has asked him to do all the site measurement er and that they will then produce the certification
6 ‘ Then I think you must take it that you do know . ’
7 So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day .
8 So we can take it that Mick is none too keen on an open door policy at 10 Records ?
9 Do I take it that I 'm invited , Mistress Fenemore ? ’
10 ( Let us take it that he is right in this . )
11 We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers .
12 ( Quinton , 1973 , pp. 46–53 ) More precisely , with respect to the spatiality , since we wish to exclude points , lines , and two-dimensional surfaces , we shall take it that the physical occupies a continuous three-dimensional region of space-that it is voluminous or geometrically solid .
13 I am a physician , I may say , and if you have not heard as much , Prince Rainbow , you may take it that you soon will , from another quarter .
14 If , by contextual manipulation , we can reduce the apparent oddness , or at least cause it to be perceived as communicatively appropriate , then we can take it that we are dealing with a semantic deviance ( although the involvement of grammatical elements can not be ruled out ) .
15 From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency .
16 You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen .
17 You ca n't take it that it is you have to draw your scale diagram .
18 It is true that even then he might still be acting in the course of his employment , but we must take it that this curious piece of metaphysics exempts the employer from vicarious liability for this particular tort .
19 And since it obviously has n't been doing so , we can take it that we are not held within un- , sub- or supernatural forces after all ; in all probability , that is .
20 Can I take it that if
21 ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked .
22 As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter .
23 ‘ I think we can take it that a representative of the Security Service was regarded as , ahh , fundamental . ’
24 Do I take it that I 'm to be redeemed from that particular fate ?
25 He watched her guardedly for a moment , then he said , ‘ Do I take it that you 're referring to Elise ? ’
26 If that is the average , we can take it that many will take longer than that .
27 On the basis of that argument , can we take it that the boundary review that will be undertaken will now be on geographical location rather than population distribution ?
28 In the light of the arguments which have been put forward about the size of the constituency can we take it that there has been a change in Government principle on the boundary reorganisation ?
29 We shall take it that their surface structure is : ( 44 ) This may at first make them seem somewhat analogous to the predicate qualifiers , except that the noun phrase beyond the mediating verb is here the subject of the clause rather than the object as with the predicate qualifiers , and it is to the entity of this noun phrase that the property of the adjective applies .
30 I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has .
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