Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I want group members ' approval , I will accept the dictates of the group about my role , even though I might not accept that influence in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 2 | But with all the glasnost in the world I could not accept Natasha Vitaliev 's comments ( Impressions of Britain Today ) : ‘ Women in Britain have equal rights with men … |
| 3 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |
| 4 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 5 | I told the Cabinet that I could not accept that the traditional basis for collective responsibility had been established . |
| 6 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 7 | Richards , 40 , said : ‘ I was flattered to receive the offer , but morally I could not accept . |
| 8 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 9 | Rightly or wrongly , I could not accept that certain occupations having a particular duty to society could withdraw their essential services for financial considerations . |
| 10 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 11 | I could not accept this terrible punishment , and wrote to all the important people I could think of , asking for mercy for Magwitch . |
| 12 | But he 'd known that while I might accept his desire to get out of the situation I could not accept his withdrawing support from me , just shutting me out , without letting me come to terms with his thinking . |
| 13 | ‘ But I could not accept … ’ |
| 14 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 15 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 16 | Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’ |
| 17 | I would not accept this extreme position . |
| 18 | August I will not accept a team of gangsters directed by a mental retard . |
| 19 | Ken Deeming , who runs the Hideaway in Burgundy , said : ‘ I will not accept Eurocheques because when I pay them into the bank I am losing money because of the transaction charges . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I will not accept it until he is on a mortuary slab . |
| 21 | In the past I have done many portraits on commission — the last was Lord Flowers of Imperial College , London — but nowadays I will not accept commissions . |
| 22 | Prostitute — well , I can accept that , but common I will not accept . |
| 23 | With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach . |
| 24 | I can accept a wrong note from an orchestra but when everything is getting faster or slower , that I can not accept . |
| 25 | But , because I can not accept the idea of total predestination , it has then to be the human being who either succeeds or fails . |
| 26 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 27 | But I can not accept mysteries and I like to find the reason behind them . |
| 28 | But I can not accept this smallness . |
| 29 | But the presiding Sheriff Andrew Lothian dismissed the claim , saying ‘ I can not accept Mr McMurdo as a credible witness . |
| 30 | In my heart I can not accept it . ’ |