Example sentences of "taken for [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 2 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 3 | Water is so often taken for granted that few people consider what is needed in a supply until the matter is forced upon them by a shortage or a change in properties that affect the running of a works . |
| 4 | In this emergent consciousness paradigm it will be taken for granted that human beings have psychological capacities ; capacities largely unrecognised today and almost entirely unsuspected 50 years ago . |
| 5 | It is increasingly taken for granted that any post-war reordering of the Middle East will include a fresh bid to break the Arab-Israeli impasse . |
| 6 | But it should not be taken for granted that these types of programmes are the ideal and only way to approach health education , whether in schools or by health professionals . |
| 7 | At the same time , there was emerging a new set of theories surrounding reproduction , in which female orgasm was no longer taken for granted as necessary in the conception of a child . |
| 8 | Some differences , such as those based on sex , have for decades simply been taken for granted as natural and unproblematic . |
| 9 | Feminist sociologists ' arguments showed that ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ which had been taken for granted as natural were in fact social in origin : these roles had to learned by young people . |
| 10 | It is surprising the extent to which published numbers are taken for granted as reliable . |
| 11 | As past achievements are taken for granted and new challenges emerge , so voters may look for alternative leaders . |