Example sentences of "[be] accept [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By saying this , I am accepting that Geraldine herself may well have engineered the engagement .
2 For a long time it had been accepted that humans could not survive on worlds which were in orbit around any sun which was capable of being classed as a red giant .
3 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
4 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
5 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
6 It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power .
7 In the end , it must be accepted that exports are produced through the co-operation , to a greater or lesser extent , of every enterprise in the economy .
8 It is to be accepted that tasks and programmes will have the character of ‘ experimental action ’ , and some of the experiment will fail , or end up with results different from those expected .
9 It must be accepted that standards set are real , attainable and to be attained .
10 It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public .
11 It may be accepted that Althusser is describing science by its theoretical practice , its ‘ labour of theoretical transformation ’ , but this is not adequate to distinguish it from ideology as a practice .
12 Such flexibility would be further enhanced if they were to accept that questions of law could have more than one possible answer .
13 If we were to accept that societies need to include a diversity of behaviour and belief in order to adapt to new conditions , this could surely be achieved by simply allowing such diversity .
14 To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like .
15 I think it is accepted that Gray failed to realise how poor the team was and then , to cap it all , with the worst defensive record in the League , he proceeded to spend £100,000 on rather an ordinary centre forward .
16 It is accepted that Gary and Aggi had grounds to suspect each of the appellants of an offence .
17 The submissions made to your Lordships on the basis of the history of eleemosynary corporations do not seem to me to justify the drawing of such a distinction at the present time once it is accepted that certiorari can be available ( as in Thomas ) on some grounds .
18 Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions .
19 Once it is accepted that principles can be part of the law for reasons not reflecting convention but just because they are morally appealing , then a door is opened for the more threatening idea that some principles are part of the law because of their moral appeal , even though they contradict what convention has endorsed .
20 Less obvious is the misguided logic it offers , for , if it is accepted that blacks have the natural ability and talent to do well in sports , then it can do no harm to encourage their participation in sport .
21 However , even if it is accepted that treaties do not perform a single function and should not all be subject to the same rules , there remains the threshold question of how treaties are best conceptualised and categorised .
22 In people , UV-B radiation is known to cause ageing of the skin , and because of the high correlation between sunshine and skin cancer , it is accepted that UV-B exposure of skin is directly linked to skin cancer ( Eaglemann , 1981 ) .
23 It seems to me quite arbitrary to disallow man-made machines this ability , when it is accepted that men are machines , and that such an unknown machine as a Martian may also perceive meanings .
24 However , even if it is accepted that IIAs are marginal to the prospects of urban economic development and employment creation , it seems evident that some approaches to industrial improvement are more successful than others .
25 If the argument is accepted that dinosaurs were on their way to possessing a non-reptilian or bird-like heart , then as soon as the separation of the heart valves was complete it enabled the thecodonts , probably in the Triassic .
26 ‘ It 's accepted that doctors do n't look after their own families .
27 It was accepted that s 287 had to be construed as one with s 286 .
28 In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances .
29 It was accepted that models were used to create all of the decoration required in the day moulds , so that variation could occur in making the model , mould , casting or in any final cleaning .
30 " Men worked very hard , " said the deputy , " and there were no baths — it was accepted that women would , do it all , they did n't think that the women were working all hours .
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