Example sentences of "[pers pn] was accepted [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the inclusion of 'subsidiary " invalidate the restrictive covenant as it was accepted that many subsidiaries did not deal in the mail order business ( one was a restaurant in Alice Springs ) . |
| 2 | In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market . |
| 3 | Both Soviet and British spheres of influence should be discouraged as far as possible , though it was accepted that such spheres would be among the inescapable facts of contemporary life . |
| 4 | By the turn of the century it was accepted that certain parts of the brain were specialized for either sensation or movement but , as Brodmann ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) demonstrated , there are large areas of the human cerebral cortex that are neither obviously motor nor sensory . |
| 5 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 6 | It was accepted that anal abuse may cause a range of signs , from surface skin damage , fissures , defects of anal verge , to severe lacerations , but that in our present state of knowledge , none of these in themselves , or in various clusters , establish with reasonable certainty that anal abuse has occurred . |
| 7 | Bribes in the Kandyan Kingdom were paid to the judge , and it was accepted that both sides would contribute . |
| 8 | It was accepted that some specialists and a class of supplementary clerks would be needed , but they did not fit into the overall scheme . |
| 9 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 10 | It was accepted that these restrictions were necessary in the interests of the community , salus populi est suprema lex , and that private owners should be compelled to comply with them even at cost to themselves . |