Example sentences of "[prep] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 2 | Does anybody understand vaguely what Clare 's talking about heard of this example . |
| 3 | So we aim to provide some of the luxuries which most of us tend to take for granted at this time of year . ’ |
| 4 | We take these for granted as common sense . |
| 5 | On the one hand , the sterility of machine culture and the terrible isolation often felt by people even in overcrowded cities ; on the other hand , a taking for granted of many basic rights and freedoms which in your day have not even been thought |
| 6 | But , taking that for granted for one moment , just what standards do we apply when making such strong pleas on behalf of a recorded performance ? |
| 7 | What , what appear to be , as I said , naive questions very often are most penetrating and bring us up short because they involve things we 've taken for granted for many , many years and perhaps ought to look at again . |
| 8 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 9 | Effective water management is literally vital to our existence and yet , perhaps , taken for granted by many . |
| 10 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 11 | The particular health needs of later life are perceived as a low priority , with older people actually being excluded from services which are taken for granted by younger patients . |
| 12 | The modern science of ecology emerged when naturalists trying to understand how a species ' distribution is limited by environmental factors sought to develop more precise ways of studying relationships that had been largely taken for granted by previous generations . |
| 13 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 14 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 15 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 16 | More than anything else it has changed the public lifestyle of Catholicism for the ordinary churchgoer so that it is hard for the young actually to realize that thirty years ago Mass said wholly in Latin , including even a first reading of Epistle and Gospel , was simply taken for granted by most people . |
| 17 | And these pains are suffered in houses that are too small , too densely concentrated together ; houses that are in various stages of dilapidation and decay ; houses that lack the basic amenities taken for granted by most people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has been taken for granted by most workers in this field that pigeons can home from unfamiliar starting points . |
| 20 | ‘ The freedom to travel independently is taken for granted by most of us and only assumes its real importance when it is limited or even removed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 21 | For another , FSP theory often forms the basis for highly relevant discussions of translation problems and strategies ( see , for example , Hatim , 1984 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ; Hatim and Mason , 1990 ) , and basic familiarity with this approach tends to be taken for granted by those exploring its relevance to translation studies . |
| 22 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 23 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 24 | The systems , , graphical user interfaces , the concept of database management systems , repositories of information which are accessible and shareable are really taken for granted in many organizations . |
| 25 | Is it about time that the Government took the opportunities of our youngest children seriously , gave their parents the opportunities that they are looking for and made sure that children receive the very best start , which is something that is taken for granted in other European countries ? |
| 26 | ‘ Many parents are unemployed and the children have learned to go without many things that are taken for granted in other areas , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 28 | These show how what is taken for granted in one society would be looked upon as being not only strange but perhaps also immoral in another society . |
| 29 | The international comparison further helps to pick out significant aspects of family and culture which are taken for granted in one country , yet differ in another . |
| 30 | Quantification is usually taken for granted in social dialectology , but it is not used in some other branches of sociolinguistics ( for example , those researches that follow Gumperz 's model ) , and there can be disputes about whether or not it should be used in given instances . |