1.   American life is drenched in advertising, whose deceptions are so widely taken for granted that objecting to them marks you as a hopelessly dour Puritan.

2.   And its lesser status is not at all to be taken for granted.

3.   A great work like the Sibelius concerto is too complex, too richly layered to be so easily tagged, filed and taken for granted.

4.   But all that matters little to viewers who feel their program loyalty is being taken for granted by the networks.

5.   But even taking for granted a president who has made the unpredictable predictable, Democrats and Republicans alike have been knocked completely off balance by the Monica Lewinsky debacle.

6.   It amuses me that he is so taken for granted.

7.   It is now more than ever locked up and delivered, seemingly beyond the reach of Republicans and taken for granted by Democrats.

8.   Nothing taken for granted.

9.   Occasionally taken for granted because he made his first All-America team three years ago, Boselli had the best game of his career last week against Baylor.

10.   Once taken for granted, the immunity issue has rapidly become the crux of the debate.