Example sentences of "[been] accept as a " in BNC.

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1 If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity .
2 Provoked killings are generally thought to be less heinous than unprovoked killings , and provocation has long been accepted as a ground for reducing to manslaughter a killing which would otherwise fulfil the definition of murder .
3 Ultraviolet light has long been accepted as a provocative factor for herpes of the face and lips and many people find that their annual attack coincides with their visit to Majorca or trip to the ski slopes .
4 Only two years previously , my uncle had been accepted as a coastguard and took up his position at Babbacombe , near Torquay , after almost thirty years ’ service as a Royal Marine .
5 It is therefore not surprising that the provision of apparatus ( both large and small ) , toys and games , has been accepted as a necessity .
6 And once homeothermy had been accepted as a good working hypothesis , then other arguments relating to non-metabolic methods of heat control began to have more relevance .
7 Judging by the ratings , David Jason the comedy star has been accepted as a serious actor .
8 Newly independent Croatia has been accepted as a provisional member of the International Tennis Federation .
9 Since the 1950s an association between low school attainment , the problems of classroom discipline , and delinquency has been accepted as a male , white and predominantly working class phenomenon .
10 Philip 's great-something-grandfather , Alexander I , had been accepted as a Greek by the Greeks ( so that he could take part in the Olympics ) .
11 However , by his own account he had then been accepted as a volunteer in an unofficial military role .
12 In the meantime the NSFU had been accepted as a registered trade union by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies in the previous October .
13 At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician .
14 He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war .
15 Sometimes ‘ might is right ’ has been accepted as a legitimate form of political power , whereas at other times and in different societies hereditary succession has been accepted as the legitimate source of political power .
16 Most importantly , since this work on the dictionary was completed Standard Generalized Markup Language ( SGML ) ( Bryan , 1988 ) has been accepted as a standard for encoding document information .
17 Fiona Jones has been accepted as a student on a law course at Glasgow University .
18 there are over 4000 hangliders in Britain … what started out as a daredevil sport has been accepted as a safe form of flying … and the thrill the sensation …
19 Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said : ‘ By and large pedestrianisation has been accepted as a benefit to the town and shoppers .
20 They have never been accepted as an equal ‘ nation ’ within Yugoslavia ; they have difficulty in obtaining recognition for their language ( except in Kosovo , where however there is now a threat that in future the official language will be Serbocroatian , and that all Albanian children will be forced to learn it at school ) ; and they consider that Serbs , in particular , regard them as inferiors and potential enemies .
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