Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a case for argument that people are less willing to accept patronising notions from people in superior positions . |
| 2 | As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims . |
| 3 | This means they are less likely to accept price hikes in future . |
| 4 | As the project team commented : ‘ The public are naturally unwilling to accept change , particularly when it may involve some travelling disadvantage , unless they can recognise clear compensating benefits … . |
| 5 | This must be not only encouraging but also perturbing as we are only able to accept a small number for tuition . |
| 6 | Whether it is a spur of useless stem which does not , can not , heal quickly , or a bad cut from blunt secateurs , disease spores are ever ready to accept the invitation of a door carelessly left open . |
| 7 | If on the other hand the video is to be a record of a once in a lifetime trip , you are more likely to accept the need to go fully equipped and ready for all eventualities . |
| 8 | People are not merely dupes , but are more likely to accept uncritically a line which is constantly propagated by the media if it does n't touch them personally ; otherwise they are more likely to insist on making up their own minds . |
| 9 | If they are made to seem part of the decision they are more likely to accept it . |
| 10 | In general , computational linguists are more willing to accept computer systems that are able to process a useful range of language input . |
| 11 | Many conventional doctors and scientists , however , are still reluctant to accept that acupuncture can have therapeutic as well as analgesic effects , and this is at least partly because there is as yet little theoretical explanation of how acupuncture could exert therapeutic — as opposed to analgesic — action . |
| 12 | Yet even when they see Japanese methods being successfully introduced to this country , British managers are still reluctant to accept that they too could try co-operation with the workforce in place of confrontation . |
| 13 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 14 | Seemingly , they are also happy to accept that the meat/meet merger is also a true merger , and that some people alternate between these two merged classes . |
| 15 | Let us assume that insiders are now willing to accept a real wage reduction so as to protect their jobs . |
| 16 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 17 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 18 | The generals are now prepared to accept another civilian ; but they want Mr Ozal to pick the right man . |
| 19 | Since the railway would have been Bishop 's Castle 's main link with the outside world in 1891 , we are strongly inclined to accept and the Committee will be discussing the details in future meetings . |
| 20 | There are many shops that are quite happy to accept posters advertising school events and there are others that are willing to display children 's work for a limited period . |
| 21 | As for the question , what do we mean by health ? — for the purpose of this issue we are quite happy to accept the definition proposed in the 1940s by WHO : the total physical , psychological and social well-being of individuals and communities . |
| 22 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 23 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 24 | We are fully prepared to accept the cost of a high quality and expanding service . |
| 25 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 26 | You know , probably some of us are too old to accept this , but er , the younger people |