Example sentences of "it was accept [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was accepted that the British troops had used a substantial amount of violence and brutality to enforce the hand-over . |
| 2 | A similar interpretation was evident in Bone v Seale where it was accepted that the test of a public health nuisance was ‘ whether it caused risk of infection ’ . |
| 3 | For millennia it was accepted that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe , despite all the contrary evidence , on the grounds that no other site would be fitting for the world on which the ‘ chosen ’ ( whatever their religion ) dwelt . |
| 4 | By the late 1960s , it was accepted that the normal period of full-time economic employment would cease for most of the population at these ages . |
| 5 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 6 | In A. G. v. Guardian Newspapers ( No. 2 ) ( H.L. , 1988 ) it was accepted that the Crown had a right to attempt to restrain disclosure of confidential information relating to the operation of the security services but that they must establish that the disclosure was in some way damaging to the public interest . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) Allowing the appeal ( Lord Griffiths dissenting ) , that in view of the terms of the letter from the Crown Prosecution Service , in which it was accepted that the order restricted them to utilising material already collected or independently gathered , and the safeguards contained in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , the compliance with the order for disclosure would not create any real danger for the defendants of prejudice in criminal proceedings ( post , pp. 353G–H , 354A–B , 358G–H , 359C–E , 360A , 362G–H , 364E–H ) . |
| 8 | It was accepted that the Chief Constable and the inspector actually and reasonably apprehended that a breach of the peace would result if the meeting of July 30 , 1934 , the subject of these proceedings , were held . |
| 9 | It was accepted that the review should go ahead as proposed . |
| 10 | Even when a benefice was in effect being inherited , it was accepted that the king 's right should be acknowledged at the moment of succession . |