Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] accepted " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also accepted the advice of a number of organisations , including the TUC , that , for security reasons , union members should not have access to the names and addresses of other union members . |
| 2 | I have already accepted that the judges are the best persons to say what the judges ' tariff is , as Watkins L.J . |
| 3 | I have already accepted that the court should be slow to make a finding of adverse possession in a case such as the present … |
| 4 | Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , said on Friday that it was now time to change ‘ the tone and mood of Scottish politics ’ and added : ‘ I have always accepted that a referendum could be an appropriate mechanism for sounding out opinion , particularly on constitutional issues . ’ |
| 5 | I have never accepted that . |
| 6 | You are hampered by fear of the consequences of a new choice , the fear of the unknown , of being alone , of the world you have readily accepted in the past . |
| 7 | The idea seems to be that you have tacitly accepted the protection of the laws and thereby you have tacitly undertaken to obey them . |
| 8 | We have long accepted the principle that ‘ if you live by the river you must make friends with the crocodile ’ and prepare for the certainty that sooner or later winds of hurricane force will hit the islands . |
| 9 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 10 | But we have always accepted that Mr Pink is a sincere person . |
| 11 | We have never accepted presents from the government . |
| 12 | In so doing , they imagine themselves set in diametrical opposition to their society where in fact they have unwittingly accepted its crucial structural elements . ’ |
| 13 | At some points in the history of a given society people have rebelled and challenged this inequality ; at other points they have meekly accepted their subordination ; but probably most of the time people adopt a posture midway between these two extremes . |