Example sentences of "be [adv] accept the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 2 | If we accept Massey 's ( 1984a ) argument regarding ‘ layers of investment ’ as the mechanism through which places are constantly being remade , then we are similarly accepting the longer-lived view of the landscape as a palimpsest , a parchment on which several ( perhaps many ) layers of human occupance have been laid , with the nature of each layer influencing that of the next . |
| 3 | Instead , as time went on all would find that their followers were gradually accepting the new philosophy leaving the old orders to die . |
| 4 | He has the talent to play anywhere , and he is gradually accepting the situation . |
| 5 | By looking at black sportsmen I had invited the accusation that I was unwittingly accepting the traditional stereotype of the black man physically endowed with the properties to excel in sports , but incapable of performing well in academic pursuits . |
| 6 | Bevin 's response was implicitly to accept the strategic vulnerability of the Middle East in wartime , but to argue that Britain 's presence in that area was crucial to its role as a great political power . |