Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] accepted " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ . |
| 2 | Although the current version of the LBS model places considerable weight on relative money supplies , and implicitly on purchasing power parity , current research is based on two propositions which are widely accepted in North America : |
| 3 | Accountants have devised a number of broad assumptions which are widely accepted in preparing published accounts . |
| 4 | Frequently they took refuge in platitudes and rhetoric , delivering as unassailable truths ideas which are elsewhere accepted as very much open to debate . |
| 5 | Their fossil remains seem to occur with other animals and plants , which are generally accepted as terrestrial . |
| 6 | He followed Ptolemy 's constellations , adding a dozen of his own which are still accepted . |
| 7 | Certainly Freud was critical of the religious versions of reality which were generally accepted among the middle classes in the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and America . |
| 8 | Legislation on drugs , which had been passed by the Senate in December 1989 [ see p. 37508 ] , was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in May 1990 with only minor amendments , which were finally accepted by the Senate in June . |
| 9 | How , for example , have CMHTs managed to resolve a number of broad problems — ones which were well known and which were uncontentiously accepted by policy-makers and practitioners alike . |
| 10 | Though the existence of a variety of competing perspectives in sociology can sometimes be confusing and a little frustrating to the new student , he or she must recognise that there simply is no nice , neat package of ‘ sociology ’ which is universally accepted and which provides all the answers . |
| 11 | This distinction corresponds , to some extent , with that between ‘ reformist ’ and ‘ revolutionary ’ parties , the former being concerned to accommodate unavoidable changes ( if they are more conservative ) or to bring about desirable changes ( if they are more radical ) within an existing social and political order which is broadly accepted , while the latter aim to establish a new order . |
| 12 | The method of comparison which is increasingly accepted as most ‘ rational ’ , at least by large-scale enterprises with sophisticated calculation procedures , involves discounting future revenues ( or costs ) at a rate of discount equal to the ‘ cost of ( money ) capital ’ to the enterprise . |
| 13 | In men the signs and symptoms of gonorrhoea will appear after the incubation period , which is generally accepted as being between two and ten days . |
| 14 | The other constraint on the speaker is that the word-meaning chosen must also be one which is conventionally accepted as used for entities rather than for properties . |
| 15 | The BA Hons Business Studies is a qualification which is widely accepted and respected by industry , commerce and the public sector . |
| 16 | Ageism is one of the most insidious forms of discrimination , one which is widely accepted and rarely challenged . |
| 17 | It is this view which is currently accepted by government . |
| 18 | 1.2 Each order which is so accepted shall constitute an individual legally binding contract between the Seller and the Purchaser and such contract is hereafter referred to in these Conditions as an " Order " . |
| 19 | The rise in recorded offences in many parts of the Western world in the first half of the nineteenth century played an important role in the original formulation of this belief , which is still accepted by many scholars . |
| 20 | The development of carcinoma of the colon is dependent on both genetic and environmental factors and its is generally accepted that the development of colonic carcinoma follows the adenoma-carcinoma sequence . |
| 21 | Moreover , the variations of phase as Venus moved around its orbit were not in accord with the Ptolemaic model of the Solar System which originated with the Greek astronomer Ptolemy ( ca. 100-ca. 170 ) a refined version of which was widely accepted in Galileo 's time . |
| 22 | Miss Fergusson thanked him , and offered in return a small parcel of sugar , which was gravely accepted . |
| 23 | The City of London raised a loan of £100,000 , which was gratefully accepted ; an elderly duke volunteered to emerge from retirement to lead the fleet , an offer which was declined . |
| 24 | He offered to look at the engine of her car , an offer which was gratefully accepted . |
| 25 | For it can not be emphasized too much that the transsexual , even after conversion surgery , continually seeks reassurance that she is now accepted in her new sex role . |
| 26 | Islamic laws in Iran or Pakistan , Catholic laws in Ireland , command acceptance because the religion itself is popularly accepted . |
| 27 | Interestingly she was later accepted by the very person who said this . |
| 28 | While she was under his protection she was grudgingly accepted by the rest of the gang . |
| 29 | Described as ‘ weak and difficult to deal with ’ , she was nonetheless accepted for Oldham Grammar School while living in one room with her mother — a ‘ mentally weak person ’ who worked night shifts . |
| 30 | She was still accepted here . |