Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] accepted [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Once they were over the shock she was accepted as being a decorative new addition to the team .
2 There is a danger of assuming that the Japanese have not rejected the contemporary institutions of collectivism because they are accepted as ideal .
3 There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon .
4 All we can say is that assurances were given , and that for a short time they were accepted as having been given in good faith ; but they were not honoured .
5 If compulsion is not to be the order of the day where the business itself is transferred , can it be accepted when the transfer is of the company which owns the business ?
6 When this care of old people is short-lived , the inevitable prelude to death , it is accepted as natural .
7 It has important implications for sociology , if it is accepted as in any sense true .
8 The charge for the call can be transferred to the number called if it is accepted when the operator offers the call .
9 There he became a renowned ornithologist where his work is recognised to-day as being of immense scientific value and he is accepted as being the father of American Ornithology .
10 At that point , the passenger-to-be produced her UWC pass and , on her assurance delivered in Ulster speech that the flight was indeed an essential service , it was accepted as valid for both herself and the pilot .
11 However , he was accepted as being a Puritan leader within the mainstream of Reformed tradition .
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