Example sentences of "[pron] can not accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach . |
| 2 | I can accept a wrong note from an orchestra but when everything is getting faster or slower , that I can not accept . |
| 3 | But , because I can not accept the idea of total predestination , it has then to be the human being who either succeeds or fails . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I can not accept mysteries and I like to find the reason behind them . |
| 6 | But I can not accept this smallness . |
| 7 | But the presiding Sheriff Andrew Lothian dismissed the claim , saying ‘ I can not accept Mr McMurdo as a credible witness . |
| 8 | In my heart I can not accept it . ’ |
| 9 | As a Christian I can not accept any teaching that suggests that there is any kind of spirit in plant life . |
| 10 | However , I can not accept … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can accept not being in the team but I can not accept that , because of the circumstances , I 'm becoming a worse footballer every week . |
| 12 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
| 13 | This being so , I can not accept what would be Mill 's reason for giving an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ |
| 14 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 15 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 16 | Thus , although I recognise that the most striking feature of the events in suit is , from the point of view of a criminal lawyer , that they happened after charge , I can not accept that this is the only perspective in which they should be viewed . |
| 17 | There are many reasons why I can not accept this submission . |
| 18 | I can not accept those submissions . |
| 19 | I can not accept this suggestion . |
| 20 | I can not accept this suggestion . |
| 21 | It will , I think , be apparent from what I have said that even in the case of normal medical treatment I can not accept Mr. Munby 's proposition that the child 's decision should determine the matter . |
| 22 | I am afraid that I can not accept the reasoning which has led subsequent Divisional Courts to limit the ambit of that decision : Benson 's case , the Divisional Court in the present case , and Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Walsh , The Times , 18 December 1991 . |
| 23 | I can not accept this latter submission . |
| 24 | However , although ‘ action ’ is to be construed liberally I can not accept that it is wide enough to embrace a non-legal process such as a statutory demand . |
| 25 | ‘ With the utmost respect , I can not accept this statement as correct . |
| 26 | I can not accept the argument that the words ‘ the interests of the State ’ in this context mean the interests of the amorphous populace , without regard to the guiding policies of those in authority , and that proof of possible ultimate benefit to the populace may for the purposes of the Act justify an act of spying or sabotage . |
| 27 | I was fortunate enough to have such a relationship , which is probably why I can not accept the idea of a future without love . |
| 28 | I can not accept M. Delcor 's theory that these Sidonians of Sechem were real Phoenicians , not Samaritans ( Zeitschr . |
| 29 | This I can not accept : it seems impossible that such a central part , mathematics , of such a political institution , education , should really be politically neutral . |
| 30 | Although my hon. Friend makes persuasive and powerful arguments , I can not accept that they are convincing reasons for moving the line . |