Vera was taking it for granted, I would.

And the reason is that you take it for granted.

That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know?

We have a fine school that you take for granted.

Yet, like a heartbeat, it is often taken for granted.

But we don't. We take our consciousness for granted.

We take it for granted that he will succeed in his business.

We take the good for granted, and we moan and groan at the bad.

So let me ask you something you may take for granted.

It's very hard to know, by the way, what it is you take for granted.

That's not what I think you take for granted, I'm sure you're familiar with that already.

Too wellmannered not to take your headaches at bedtime asjust headaches at bedtime.

Singapore continues to believe that there should be an expansion of the Security Council to better reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.

We are rightfully proud of it.

But that the United Nations should be involved is taken for granted.

We were perhaps taking her for granted, and maybe she didn't like that that much.

I soaked it up and I thought, how could I ever have taken this for granted?

We were wrong because we thought, naturally enough, in nation state ways.

I have taken you for granted!

It's taken for granted that Chinese factories are oppressive, and that it's our desire for cheap goods that makes them so.

So I immediately called her up, of course.

Most definitely you don't want to pay the bribe.

I think that he will definitely become a teacher.

The review process, therefore, should be carried out with great seriousness.

It's a funny thing because the rest of us occupy it quite frequently and quite well.

And then... just as I was beginning to think it was all a wild goose chase...

Some, however, said that the conclusions should have been set out in greater detail.

It is logical that those issues are inextricably linked.

Though the perpetrators are known to the authorities and freely admit their responsibility, no one has been arrested

But because of what Snow did, because of this map, because of the whole series of reforms that happened in the wake of this map, we now take for granted that cities have 10 million people, cities like this one are in fact sustainable things.

While investment in peace is always warranted, its merit could not be clearer than in the case of the Sudan.

States should not underestimate or take for granted the quiet, but useful, work that organizations like the OSCE do to make the world a safer place.

While the view was expressed that such a rule should not be automatic in all cases, others were in strong support of this type of rule.

Why shouldn't she?

Serves you right.

Nevertheless, all member countries could not be assumed ipso facto to assign the same level of priority to this subject and for very good reasons.

From the information provided, the Committee is not convinced that a case has been made to convert all these personnel to local posts.

The Department considered local leadership as essential and local ownership as crucial.

Therefore, we deem it inevitable that the number of its members be expeditiously increased to the greatest possible extent.

Croatia believes that the question of withdrawal from the Treaty should be seriously addressed.

Biologists seem to think so.

That's during the daytime, of course.

And Darwin, of course, argued that evolution is a natural state.

So, naturally, I had my vest and my identification.

So you wonder, what if cities could give to their pedestrians what we take for granted as we now go between cities?