Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a sensible policy which would bring stability to Britain , and took it for granted that stability would mean that relations with the colonies would remain unchanged . |
| 2 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 3 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 4 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |
| 5 | I did it on having testicular cancer . |
| 6 | Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards . |