Example sentences of "has [vb pp] to [be] accept " in BNC.

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1 A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse .
2 If , since union , sovereignty has been successfully asserted in practice by the United Kingdom Parliament , and if that assertion has come to be accepted as the basis of the existing constitutional edifice , that is what must , at all events pending the next shift , govern .
3 Since this decision relates , in English , to what has come to be accepted as a key element in children 's potential to achieve at school , that is their linguistic competence , the English teacher has a heavier responsibility when he [ or she ] attempts to resolve it than staff concerned with other parts of the curriculum .
4 Subsequently it has come to be accepted without misgiving by public opinion in West Germany .
5 The way this government control has come to be accepted as normal and proper can be seen by the irritated reactions of ministers and whips on the odd occasions when something goes wrong .
6 Even in the Coordinating Team , the development of such skills has tended to be accepted as self-evidently a good thing rather than debated or interpreted in a systematic way .
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