Example sentences of "[prep] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market . |
| 2 | Sometimes a large coloured dot ( red for stop ) is used to emphasise when there are no rooms available for let in a certain category . |
| 3 | The hilltop we were aiming for looked like an angry volcano . |
| 4 | The first four sections of Chapter II of Part VII replace , with amendments , the concessions to smaller companies originally afforded by the 1981 Act as permitted by the Fourth Company Law Directive . |
| 5 | In all the discussion of this subsection , we are assuming that , after input to the computer , the data will form a named file in the backing store . |
| 6 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 7 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 8 | Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Europeans , almost as much as in preceding generations , took war for granted as a normal part of their lives . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 22 | He will take nothing for granted against a Swansea side who are only three points off the top of the table . |
| 23 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |
| 24 | With growing confidence , members from outside the immediate disciplinary fraternity can raise issues not just over resources ( important though these are ) , but over assumptions taken for granted within the discipline . |
| 25 | How true , for Leicester could not even take yesterday 's three points for granted until the end . |
| 26 | This aspect of Richards 's work is worth stressing , because it expresses a belief which is taken for granted by a great deal of literary scholarship and criticism , and which from a more modern point of view may well seem somewhat naive . |
| 27 | Since this is an assumption taken for granted by a good deal of modern criticism , we should consider some of the objections that can be made against the New Critics ' arguments in its favour . |
| 28 | In contrast with some other forms of deviance , many kinds of pollution do not carry with them indicators which can be taken for granted by an enforcement officer ( or anyone else ) as unambiguous signs of their presence . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is simply taken for granted by the public that curriculum and examinations go together . |