Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] took [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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1 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
2 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
3 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
4 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
5 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |