Example sentences of "or accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that responsibility for the juvenile labour exchange system was divided forced LEAs to choose between either administering their own scheme ( with Board of Education approval ) , or accepting the Board of Trade JAC . |
| 2 | Here one problem of panels becomes clear : with all the best intentions , panel members may be considered to be specially interested in volunteering for , or accepting an invitation to join , a certain panel , and after a time the panel member can become rather too self-conscious and sophisticated . |
| 3 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time after the Consignment has been tendered . |
| 4 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time |
| 5 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 6 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |
| 7 | The choice was between having water of ‘ supremely high standard ’ and very high bills or accepting ‘ a tiny bit of risk ’ and lower bills . |
| 8 | Its 12-member Monetary Policy Committee ( MPC ) , modelled on the Federal Reserve 's Open Market Committee , will be a ‘ sanctuary ’ at the heart of the bank , he says , forbidden — along with other senior bank officials — from seeking or accepting instructions from the government or any other body . |
| 9 | Another function of a work diary could be to substantiate more staff or accepting fewer patients , by demonstrating how efficiently nurses had worked and that staying late had been a necessity . |
| 10 | When all other subjects are to be described in terms of attainment targets , strands and levels , Religious Education must consider the implication of ignoring or accepting such a framework . |
| 11 | 1.7 If the judge is undecided on the other evidence after he has heard both sides then the conviction is conclusive , but the judge is not precluded from making a finding of contributory negligence against the plaintiff or accepting ( in an appropriate case ) a defence of volenti non fit injuria ( Murphy v Culhane [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 533 ) . |
| 12 | In Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 the Court of Appeal held that a restraint on a medical assistant to a partnership which prevented him from practising " in any department of medicine , surgery or midwifery ( or accepting ) any professional appointment " was unreasonable because it covered , inter alia , practice as a consultant or medical officer of health . |
| 13 | An agreement between a company , or the directors of a company , and a shareholder which restricts both parties from making , or accepting , an offer for the shares of the company , or from increasing or reducing shareholdings . |
| 14 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |
| 15 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |
| 16 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 17 | It is surely not being excessively pompous to see this as one sign of a trivialisation of European civilisation , or to accept that there has been a catastrophic spiritual impoverishment of national life when a country such as our own , which once thought of itself as Christian , can for the most part simply ignore today 's commemoration of Christ 's passion and death . |
| 18 | Many farmers have been forced to respond to economic pressures or to accept considerably reduced incomes . |
| 19 | Article 10 of UCP 400 states that an irrevocable credit constitutes a definite undertaking of the issuing bank , provided that the stipulated documents are presented and that the terms and conditions of the Credit are complied with , to pay at sight or to accept an obligation to pay at a future date . |
| 20 | What is it to claim authority or to accept that someone has authority over one ? |
| 21 | Is the answer not to keep such breeds of dogs , or to accept that in doing so there is going to be a consequence of damage to the environment , albeit localised and perhaps , in terms of our global worries , extremely small ? |
| 22 | It should aim at helping individuals to assess the cost to their former life-style , and either to fight the consequences realistically , or to accept and come to terms with them , whichever seems to be the most appropriate . |
| 23 | Initially , I had to decide how to use the space : whether to place a separate work in each room or to accept the perceptual boundaries of the Duveen Galleries as a given and conceive a work which would deal with the space in its entirety . |
| 24 | With the single daily dose it may be more appropriate to assay the concentration eight or 12 hours after administration of the dose or to accept that a lower trough ( predose ) concentration may be more appropriate . |
| 25 | With general improvements in standards of living , expectations have risen , so that young people are no longer prepared to do without the basic utilities or to accept a limited range of shops and services ( Thomas 1972 ) . |
| 26 | You were supposed to be brilliant without effort , or to accept your limitations and get a fourth-class degree . |
| 27 | For example , only a minority of respondents were willing to abolish the teacher 's desk , and very few felt able to dispense with the convention that each pupil should have his or her own place , or to accept the idea of a classroom in which there were , as a matter of policy , fewer chairs than children . |
| 28 | According to comments made by Hurd , this might not necessarily involve the PLO as a negotiating partner and Israel would not be forced to attend a peace conference or to accept an independent Palestinian state as part of any ultimate solution . |
| 29 | I soon discovered that it 's almost impossible for anyone like myself , with normal sight and hearing , to imagine life without either sense — or to accept that , in many ways , 28-year-old Julia enjoys a nearly normal life . |
| 30 | Faced with a breach of condition , the buyer 's choice is either to reject or to accept the goods . |