Sentence examples for were taking for from inspiring English sources

It turned out that a drug called thalidomide, which pregnant women were taking for morning sickness, was responsible.

"They were taking for granted the correctness of the hypothesis they were trying to disconfirm," he said.

Ed Miliband not winning the election was the first significant unhappening, leading to the non-holding of a Tory leadership contest that a year ago senior Conservatives were taking for granted, following David Cameron's declaration that he wouldn't contest another election.

Moreover, by focusing on the 'downstream' implications of potential future developments that are envisaged for SynBio we found that we were taking for granted current practices and developments actually on-going in the early phases of the emerging fields.

In 2011, at least one protestor seemed to think it was a good idea to squat on a cop car at the Occupy Wall Street protests (despite all the flak and heat protestors were taking for poor sanitation at their campsites and the plethora of other avenues of effective dissent open to them).

To help with recall, participants were asked to bring to their testing session a list of the medications that they were taking for breathing problems.

"Some pieces were taken for media convenience.

Donations were taken for storm relief efforts.

Government atrocities were taken for granted.

Customers were taken for granted.

We were taken for a ride.