Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] accept [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons are neither sentimental nor superstitious although I accept that arguments for live worship can fall sometimes into these categories . |
| 2 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 3 | Although I accept that people can be both highly qualified and evil , does my right hon. Friend agree that it is important to have adequate numbers of properly trained staff in such homes ? |
| 4 | Although I accept that the Home Secretary will not resign at this stage , does he accept that , when that case is combined with prisoner escapes and Sunday trading , his credentials as a law and order Minister begin to look a little threadbare ? |
| 5 | Although I accept that it is right for us to do that , a counterbalance should be a more effective way of scrutinising affirmative and negative orders . |
| 6 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 7 | Work would be a crude er a crude assessment er between nineteen ei nineteen ninety one census of employment data and nineteen ninety one census data would indicate that there is a greater inflow of commuters now than in nineteen eighty one , although I accept that that is crude and I would n't like |
| 8 | ‘ I think it 's a relatively small inconvenience , although I accept that it is inconvenient . ’ |
| 9 | I said that I accepted that maybe he hated me and that he wanted nothing to do with me . |
| 10 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 11 | ‘ What you ca n't accept is that I accept that I do n't know anything . |
| 12 | Now you know , having said that I accept that if we did a peak hour model and an off peak model we would have shown different effects . |
| 13 | You that you accepted that as as conclusive that it was and not . |
| 14 | I believe that you accept that there 'll be the short-term gains by oil companies and traders , but in the long-term , the position could , could reverse ; the bubble might burst . |
| 15 | We prize our independence as much as ever , although we accept that in the run-up to the twenty-first century independence can only be relative : international interdependence is a Line qua non . |
| 16 | Although we accept that careful zoning in time and space can help to reduce the impacts of noise , we believe there is an urgent need to encourage attitudinal changes in society towards the acceptability of mechanically-aided recreation . |
| 17 | I would prefer that we accepted that Stella 's original notes defines the responsibility for forms literally for all the time . |
| 18 | It is important that we accept that the central thrust of the measure is about the offshore industry . |
| 19 | This the movies , so we accept that someone who burgles you home , hacks your safe out of a wall with an axe and steals all your savings may be one helluva guy . |
| 20 | Okay , so we accept that Councillor Tiffany is now substituting Councillor Kurtz and may now take her full part in the meeting . |
| 21 | Once we accept that our officials act in the name of a community of which we are all members , bearing a responsibility we therefore share , then this reinforces and sustains the character of collective guilt , our sense that we must feel shame as well as outrage when they act unjustly . |
| 22 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 23 | Although they accept that the laws of war apply to the use of these weapons , their conclusion is that ‘ they can be used lawfully if civilians are not made the object of attack and if collateral injury to civilians is not disproportionate to the military advantage being sought ’ ( Builder and Graubard , 1982 , p. viii ) . |
| 24 | Erm because although they accept that there are certain conditions within the , within the tower block which affect the block as a whole , they would say that they would affect each individual flat to a greater or lesser degree and that they would have to be taken on individual merit . |
| 25 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 26 | Although it accepts that a carbon tax would provide some incentive to conserve energy and invest in renewables , the Commission has proposed the revised ALTENER programme in order to stimulate demand for renewable energy , at a proposed budget of ECU 40 million for its five-year span starting January 1993 . |
| 27 | Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground . |
| 28 | Two years later the Union President , J. G. Greenhough , called up the old world to attack the new : he expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order although he accepted that it had ‘ little favour ’ in 1895 . |
| 29 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman knows that that allegation is untrue , but I am glad that he accepts that the quality of service has improved and that there have been improvements in the pricing of a number of British Telecom services . |