Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [adv] accepted " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see why she has hitherto accepted the development of a unitary European state , which is as distasteful to Continental as to British voters , for fear of being ‘ left out ’ . |
| 2 | The fact that a person was aware of an exclusionary term or notice does not in itself mean that he has voluntarily accepted the risk ( s. 2(3) ) . |
| 3 | Moreover , he must come to terms with a new awareness of what he has previously accepted , perhaps without thinking , which under the intense microscope of social enquiry may well seem to verge on the ludicrous or to be morally indefensible . |
| 4 | To most Englishmen such a conjunction will be unbelievable ; but , on returning to England , he may find himself wondering how he has finally accepted the Spanish view . |
| 5 | Ted Dexter , chairman of the England Committee , commented : ‘ Graham has led the side in the best possible way during the winter and we are delighted he has again accepted the captaincy . ’ |
| 6 | Through the Office of Fair Trading he has now accepted the board 's undertaking . |
| 7 | It is Jaime Ortiz Patiño 's recent move from a house in Vandoeuveres , outside Geneva , to smaller quarters in London following in his father 's and his maternal grandfather 's footsteps he has recently accepted an appointment as an advisor to the Bolivian government that has prompted the present consignment of Old Masters , silver and French furniture . |
| 8 | In such cases , the seller will provide that no order is to become binding unless he has specifically accepted it . |
| 9 | It has now accepted that it can not keep Scottish Pride as an integral part of its business . |
| 10 | She told an audience at the Royal Society , ‘ Let me confirm unequivocally … the United Kingdom will meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted to reduce acid emissions . ’ |
| 11 | Speaking on March 22 , 1990 , to scientists who had worked on the project , the then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised that her government would " meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted " to reduce emissions from power stations [ see pp. 36791-92 ] . |
| 12 | France has shown some sympathy ; an independent nuclear power , it has never accepted the notion that Russians and Americans between them should run the nuclear affairs of the world , let alone the post-Soviet world . |
| 13 | As far as the Channel Tunnel is concerned it has reluctantly accepted the need for on-train immigration checks but is still insisting that customs checks must be carried out at the terminals , against the advice of commercial interests who see such checks as detrimental to the ‘ user friendliness ’ of the Tunnel . |