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Take into account   /teɪk ɪntˈu əkˈaʊnt/   Listen
Take into account

verb
1.
Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something.  Synonym: allow.  "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"






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"Take into account" Quotes from Famous Books



... little kiosk, of the scent of heated asphalt—and the memory of the least of these enchantments brought infinite peace to his soul. The inhabitant of Paris has one great blessing, which he does not take into account until he suffers from its loss—one great half of his existence is filled up without the least trouble to himself. The all-potent vitality which ceaselessly envelops him takes away from him in a vast degree the exertion of amusing himself. The roar of the city, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... I suppose. That doesn't take into account little things like patriotism and heroism, does it? Tell me, have you actually ever admired—really got a thrill out of— any deed ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... find myself in a difficulty. We have been but too learned already, and now we run the risk of becoming still more so, if we commence an attack on the three primary divisions which follow the vertebrates. We shall have to encounter terrible names and tedious details, besides having to take into account a thousand things of which we have not yet spoken. We are going on quietly with the history of the feeding machine which occupies the middle of the body, and learned men never looked in that direction for the establishment of their divisions; between ourselves, it ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace

... to make a kingdom which might act as a buffer between France and the rest of Europe; and to this end they decreed that Belgium and Holland should be one. But in doing this, the statesmen or politicians concerned failed to take into account certain factors and facts which must inevitably, in the course of time, undermine their arrangements. Nations cannot be arbitrarily manufactured to suit the convenience of others. There is a chemistry in nationalities which has laws of its ...
— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... commodious and desirable refuge to the outwandering American family which then first proved them. The fragmentary outwanderers who now visited London, after an absence of twenty-two years, did not take into account the fact that their apartment of long ago was the fine event of the search, prolonged for weeks, of two friends, singularly intelligent and rarely versed in London; they took it as a type, and expected to drive directly to its fellow. They ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells


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