Example sentences of "be [adv] accepted [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 That challenges have been made to the liberal humanist tradition by Marxists , structuralists , deconstructionists , feminists and others is not , however , to say that these challenges are widely accepted or even taught .
2 Frequently they took refuge in platitudes and rhetoric , delivering as unassailable truths ideas which are elsewhere accepted as very much open to debate .
3 In the past 40 years in Germany , France and Switzerland , and in lesser measure in Austria and Scandinavia , the provision of outside workers for the tasks for which indigenous labourers are no longer available has been both accepted and highly organised .
4 Telephone enquiries are also accepted and fully trained staff will be pleased to search for information that is difficult to locate .
5 In the social context , drugs such as caffeine , sugar and chocolate are well accepted and much enjoyed by millions worldwide .
6 By and large , these criticisms were widely accepted and so efforts were directed to making this channel one which would allow for diversity , for new ideas and for experimentation .
7 These principles were readily accepted and widely implemented in new developments from the 1960s onwards .
8 It has been said that ‘ a training programme based on identified needs is necessary in every library ’ : this necessity does not appear to have been universally accepted nor uniformly translated into practice .
9 A baby conceived by in vitro fertilization in this way is as genetically related to its father and mother as a normally conceived baby , and the technique is widely accepted as ethically acceptable , although not , of course , by the Catholic Church , for the reasons that have been mentioned above .
10 Ageism is one of the most insidious forms of discrimination , one which is widely accepted and rarely challenged .
11 Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk .
12 Power is legitimate authority in that it is generally accepted as just and proper by members of society as a whole .
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