Example sentences of "take for [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall impression gained by the Commission is that the Church in general either takes for granted the contribution of music to its worship , or places little value upon it . |
| 2 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 3 | Williams 's ‘ It all depends ’ asserts and takes for granted the absence of any agreed hierarchies , hence the freedom of any individual to establish and assert his own hierarchy , without fear of challenge . |
| 4 | They certainly wo n't be surprised by it , for the Brooklands is a logical mixture of all that 's best in the cars from Crewe : you can take for granted the leather , walnut , chrome and Wilton carpeting , and also the mighty 6.75-litre V8 , four-speed automatic transmission and familiar four-door body . |
| 5 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 6 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 7 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 8 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 9 | This is like taking for granted the will of the person to whom the request is made and leaving no room for him to say no — treating him as an instrument — whence the tone of excessive familiarity . |
| 10 | Why functions in almost opposite fashion to how , however , in that whereas the most common use with the latter involves taking for granted the existence of the means ( how to ) , the former is used with the infinitive exclusively in cases where the speaker is questioning the existence of any good reason to perform the event denoted by the infinitive : ( 46 ) Why bother to reply ? |
| 11 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |
| 12 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 13 | Like him she had taken for granted the fact that Martha would marry the miller 's son . |
| 14 | There have been an awful lot of people though who 've taken for granted the right to go into a Sherpa house and abuse Sherpa hospitality . |
| 15 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 16 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 17 | I also take for granted the fact that the water is normally heated , and that there is a mikva which is easily accessible from my home . |
| 18 | Lenin 's reply reiterated his argument that world and social development was ‘ uneven ’ , so that , even in the most economically advanced countries , the social differentiation between classes and awareness of this differentiation were not yet sufficient to take for granted the primacy of class , as opposed to national , identity . |
| 19 | So much has already been written about the operational side of the industry that the public tend to take for granted the workforce whose expertise makes it all possible . ’ |