How To Use Take for granted In A Sentence
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Relief came with the newer bucksaws but it wasn't until most of Hickey's wood-cutting days were over that the power saw, which we take for granted, became a tool of the trade.
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You cannot: you are obliged to keep the French word; and yet you take for granted, without inquiry, that in the word 'witchcraft,' and in the word
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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These are things that ordinarily you take for granted.
The Sun
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It's a tremendous effort for something most of us take for granted.
The Sun
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New British civic buildings with the architectural panache that continental Europeans take for granted have proved depressingly elusive for a generation.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a lack of creature comforts that customers of other airlines tend to take for granted.
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Outside of medical circles, people who are otherwise reasonably knowledgeable and sophisticated take for granted not only that embalming is done for reasons of sanitation but that it is required by law.
The Undertaker's Racket
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We take for granted that our cultural artifacts will last.
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Many of them feel excluded from a number of opportunities that the rest of us take for granted.
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Today 'cyberspace' is a joke that most people take for granted, heck WTF is that sharkboy and lavagirl crap that the kids go to?
The Real Truth Behind Tr2n's Comic-Con Surprise « FirstShowing.net
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Mr Zittrain fears that the rise of tethered appliances will inevitably chip away at the freedom of the internet and personal computing, which many take for granted.
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The Inuit of Point Barrow AK (Inupiats?) don't have access to the food sources people in the lower 48 take for granted, Without a Bowhead whale or two there is no muktuk (whale blubber, a staple) for the kids and the people go hungry. b
On Canadian Seal Hunting
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Living in a land of religious freedom, it is easy to take for granted the blessing of being able to worship freely and openly.
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These groups of people were often visibly disadvantaged, lacking things that we in California, and even in Bogotá, could take for granted—like a doctor to treat a bad earache.
The English Is Coming!
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My assumption is that because contractors and tradesmen are generally regarded to be second-class, there is no thought or concern given to the dignity most other people take for granted in relieving themselves.
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System overloads cause brief glitches and outages, draining the power we take for granted from our appliances and modern devices.
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His first recordings, made a hundred years ago this month, on April 11 th, 1902, would kick-start the birth of the gramophone as a medium for what we now take for granted - the serious recording.
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I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most people take for granted.
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Richey is looking forward to experiencing the things we take for granted, such as feeling grass under his feet.
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That argument may have been stronger when good new authors could usually take for granted that they would get reviews in respected newspapers.
2009 June 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Yet she had to meet that demand without any of the formal backup that a minister or minor royal would take for granted.
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He must choose between the money he's come to take for granted and true love.
The Sun
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We take for granted disciplines such as biophysics or molecular biology in which old boundaries of thought have been supplanted by a greater unity of conception that recognizes increasingly the underlying interconnectedness of physical and biological processes once thought entirely separate.
Archive 2005-11-01
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I was still paying attention to the horror field at that point and was a member of HWA, and aware of the many micropresses that would pop up just long enough to publish the publisher's friends before fading away again, while eschewing things a reader tends to take for granted, such as copyediting, consistent font choices, competent layout, and cover art that doesn't make you want to claw your eyes out.
Night shade has a book sale
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I ` m here because I hope you will agree that an uncoerced, uncoercable press, though at times irritating, is vital to the perpetuation of the freedom and democracy we so often take for granted.
Bloggers aren’t real reporters
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You know she had to bring me meals in bed, had to bath me, get me dressed, all the stuff that you take for granted, when you have a stroke you can't do those things anymore.
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You might take for granted those schoolie seatrout.
Undefined
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Will the world be turned into an endless, dreary ‘green desert’ of food crops to feed our immoderate hordes, or will our great-grandchildren still enjoy the natural profusion which we take for granted?
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She knows from bitter experience what it means to lose that basic liberty we all take for granted.
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We often take for granted that the wrongdoer is a hopeless case who sooner or later will "do it again," an attitude precluding that forgiveness from the heart which is necessary for true reconciliation.
The biggest stumbling blocks
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The title tempts one to think that this may be the case, and as I am in search of such jewels as certainly constitute 'the world's best wealth,' I hope to find a few in this old-fashioned casket, especially after the specimen you have sent, and which I take for granted to be a genuine specimen of the quality (whatever be its antiquity) of the hidden treasures.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Personal freedom is a right those of us living in nominal democracies often take for granted, but from time to time a film like Aimée & Jaguar can force us to take account of our privileges.
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We take for granted the unique shapes and contours of ourselves, as easily as we forget, or perhaps don't consider, our ancestry.
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Teddy, whose relentlessly logical patter utterly fulfills his observation that 'I lack the internal editing function most people take for granted,' is the anti-Spenser - unmasculine, weak, klutzy and hilariously garrulous.
The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool by Richard Yancey: Book summary
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But one thing we take for granted is fluency in the language.
Times, Sunday Times
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The things that we overlook as simple and ordinary and take for granted are truly wonderous.
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And I always enjoy putting a twist on things that we all take for granted and are, frankly, sometimes boring...like your basic Coke or root beer float, served lukewarmish and sickeningly sweet.
Maria Rodale: Mojito Float--The Final Float!
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So many women of my generation take for granted that women had always had our freedoms.
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Under stress, whether real or manufactured, the institutions we take for granted are subject to change.
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Meyerhof ordered experiments with intact muscle, but one must understand that many productive in vivo techniques that we now take for granted, such as using isotopes to tag and trace molecules along the pathway, did not yet exist.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
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Much of what we now take for granted in handgun hunting, bullet design and magnum handgun cartridge development stemmed from his wisdom and experience.
Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor... What can you tell me about them?
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But games aside, some people -- actually, quite a few -- figure that no synthetic sentient will ever be able to do things humans take for granted, such as performing stand-up comedy, writing meaningful poetry, or simply knowing when it's safe to jaywalk.
Seth Shostak: Today Jeopardy, Tomorrow the World
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Sadly, too many players have ignored the rich chess tapestry that has shaped and colored the rules, strategies and openings that we take for granted today.
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We just didn't do the normal stuff normal families take for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the above papers, there appears to be little treatment of how culture is processual, except to take for granted that ‘modem times’ are different, then fill in some of the superficial blanks.
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Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective.
EconLog
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One of the things I've found irritating about Japanese kokugo-jiten is the absence of the kind of etymological information we take for granted in most of our English dictionaries.
Languagehat.com: JAPANESE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY.
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Technology we today take for granted, such as mobile wireless, the Internet, microelectronics, digital computing and specialty materials were all developed under federal auspices during the Space Race and ICBM era.
Safe Ways To Play The Defense Sector
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So you will have to get used to doing without all the administrative support systems you probably take for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it is alsoa heartfelt plea for you to see the higher mission in life by not just taking, butgiving back that which we all at times take for granted.
In Honor of Anthony and Mary Guarisco (A Son's Tribute to his parents' many accomplishments in life)
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It's a tremendous effort for something most of us take for granted.
The Sun
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take for granted
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The sibling dynamic is the one we most take for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm not trying to sound like a saint, but we take for granted that we are healthy and able to live a certain way.
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Some elements of equational logic that we now take for granted required a considerable number of years for Jevons to resolve:
The Algebra of Logic Tradition
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She deserved antenatal care, a decent transport system all those things we take for granted in this part of the world.
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What if something we take for granted, something utterly predictable, suddenly became unpredictable and chaotic and disordered?
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This is a book that ought to be read to understand how women today got much of what they take for granted.
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Individualism is a pretty new idea relatively speaking and one which most of us today take for granted.
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If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crack and the manners and all the things you take for granted that I dinna have.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals, perhaps Homo sapiens included, despite the sexual-orientation boundaries most people take for granted.
ID/Evolution
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Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted.
Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
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In the late 1960s and '70s, second-wave feminists, belittled in today's conservative backlash as bra-burning man-haters, paved the way for rights younger women now take for granted.
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Routine chores, that other people may take for granted, have inevitably become a problem.
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But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
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I am going to take for granted that you have done your homework and have a proposal that is worth seeing.
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Mistakes of approximation underlie many of the objections once aimed at new fangled ideas like heavier-than-air flying machines and practically every other aspect of modern life that we now take for granted.
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One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions.
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There is an urgent need to overhaul this system and offer Canadians their right to choose between private and public medicine a right that citizens in most democracies take for granted.
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Haydn's 85th Symphony, "La Reine," emerged with the clarity of restraint, like a drypoint etching, the orchestra making entrances together in sharp, precise lines (though clean entrances are not something to take for granted with this particular ensemble).
NSO and Valcuha come through loud and soft an clear
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Although Hairston, Young, Becker and Pike take for granted that Rogers' theories are appropriate for use by rhetoricians as a means to persuade, this is not the case.
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Today's citizen may peruse the items on a poll tax bill with a jaundiced eye, but we tend to take for granted that a nice shiny fire engine will make its efficiently speedy way towards us should we ever need it to.
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Also touching is his rediscovery of things the rest of us tend to take for granted.
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No more will they have to face the daily domestic chores most of us take for granted.
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Still, I think that Heidegger, like no other before him, has shown an aspect (and that itself is a laughably inapt term) of our world, an aspect we take for granted and have learned ever more easily to inhabit without thinking.
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It is presumptuous and oppressive to suggest that other cultures want the liberties we take for granted, their argument runs.
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After all, few things can be more insidious than impure water, since water is one of the natural resources we take for granted.
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They take for granted easy access to inexpensive technological, social and collaborative tools.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the modern conveniences we take for granted were invented less than a century ago and many of them just a few decades ago!
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There are personal stories of people coping with their situation as best as they can, and there are useful tips, too, on how to deal with those things the ambulatory take for granted, like showers and simply going to the bathroom.
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They take for granted easy access to inexpensive technological, social and collaborative tools.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was so much excitement and adventure in this story that really made me think about my life, in particular what I take for granted.
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This language seems to take for granted that the armed forces of the parties to a conflict will abide by the four criteria specifically applicable to irregular troops.
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It used to be the stuff of housewifely fantasies - now it's something young professionals can take for granted.
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Imagine it - scruffy shoeshiners and grungy postcard sellers getting the chance to enjoy what so many of us take for granted.
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The term "altar call" is an interesting one that has theological complexities that many of us make take for granted.
Charles Howard: Deep Calls To Deep: Re-imagining The Altar Call
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We take for granted that our cultural artifacts will last.
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He doesn't take for granted the skills required to be a comedian or comic actor of quality.
