Example sentences of "[adv] [be] accepted that " in BNC.

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1 It has since been accepted that this kind of arrangement can not be accommodated at most other council buildings .
2 It has long been accepted that , even in countries such as these , the field of human rights and the administration of justice are matters in which the government has no right to interfere , and there are even mechanisms where a non-national body may pronounce on national decisions , such as the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg .
3 As we have seen , it has long been accepted that there is a need for an hierarchical layout of the road system in order to ensure that the type of traffic flowing on each type of road is appropriate for that road .
4 Despite this virtual unanimity of opinion 104 it had long been accepted that there were certain exceptions to the rule .
5 In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package .
6 It has long been accepted that this exclusive jurisdiction prevents the courts of the land from dealing initially with issues falling to be decided by the visitor , and prevent an appeal from the visitor to those courts .
7 It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power .
8 Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning .
9 What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this .
10 Moreover , it has long been accepted that repairing covenants do not require the covenantor to renew the whole property or modernise an elderly and decaying building .
11 It has already been accepted that it is possible to de-MIRV ballistic missiles .
12 Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field .
13 It may well be accepted that a person who is deported should have greater protection than one who is refused entry , or that a person whose permit has expired has a lesser interest than one whose permit is revoked .
14 If there is a shortfall of Catholic school provision in an area , it has never been accepted that Catholic pupils should have to go to non-Catholic schools .
15 It has therefore been accepted that the urinary albumin concentration or albumin:creatinine ratio can be used to screen patients .
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