Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not accept that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I want group members ' approval , I will accept the dictates of the group about my role , even though I might not accept that influence in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 2 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 3 | I told the Cabinet that I could not accept that the traditional basis for collective responsibility had been established . |
| 4 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 5 | Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’ |
| 6 | With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach . |
| 7 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 8 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 9 | Thus , although I recognise that the most striking feature of the events in suit is , from the point of view of a criminal lawyer , that they happened after charge , I can not accept that this is the only perspective in which they should be viewed . |
| 10 | However , although ‘ action ’ is to be construed liberally I can not accept that it is wide enough to embrace a non-legal process such as a statutory demand . |
| 11 | Although my hon. Friend makes persuasive and powerful arguments , I can not accept that they are convincing reasons for moving the line . |
| 12 | Even now , she could not accept that it was over , that the deception had to end . |
| 13 | But we should not accept that this is how things are until we are convinced that there is no other account of knowledge which offers the sceptic less leverage . |
| 14 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |
| 15 | ‘ even in these days when affrays , riotous behaviour and other disturbances happen ill too frequently , we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . ’ |
| 16 | But we can not accept that that is Tess 's fault , and should happen to her . |
| 17 | They would not accept that the students could act spontaneously and have their own views outside of the party 's direction . |
| 18 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 19 | They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think . |
| 20 | They can not accept that one of their most cherished foxes has been shot . |
| 21 | A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " . |
| 22 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 23 | He could not accept that Christ 's Atonement was not in some sense , applicable to the entire human race . |
| 24 | Grieving father Garry Tomlins said at his Cork home that he could not accept that his children 's deaths were a ‘ freak , million-to-one ’ accident . |
| 25 | He could not accept that the goal or end of a process , the final cause , was the principal cause . |
| 26 | And yet , he could not accept that he would never again hold her in his arms . |
| 27 | He can not accept that he was created by God because this would prove that his power lies in his enemy 's hands and it would be ludicrous to revolt for he would ultimately be revolting against himself . |