Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [adv] accepted " in BNC.
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| 1 | Islamic laws in Iran or Pakistan , Catholic laws in Ireland , command acceptance because the religion itself is popularly accepted . |
| 2 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |
| 3 | Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ . |
| 4 | While she was under his protection she was grudgingly accepted by the rest of the gang . |
| 5 | Frequently they took refuge in platitudes and rhetoric , delivering as unassailable truths ideas which are elsewhere accepted as very much open to debate . |
| 6 | Accountants have devised a number of broad assumptions which are widely accepted in preparing published accounts . |
| 7 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 8 | By the rulers of the ancient provinces of Abyssinia and by the nobility as a whole he was universally accepted as Emperor . |
| 9 | He offered to look at the engine of her car , an offer which was gratefully accepted . |
| 10 | The method of comparison which is increasingly accepted as most ‘ rational ’ , at least by large-scale enterprises with sophisticated calculation procedures , involves discounting future revenues ( or costs ) at a rate of discount equal to the ‘ cost of ( money ) capital ’ to the enterprise . |
| 11 | For example it is generally accepted that , since the real-balance effect concerns the net wealth of the private sector , indebtedness arising from within the private sector should be excluded from the definition of NW . |
| 12 | Although the current version of the LBS model places considerable weight on relative money supplies , and implicitly on purchasing power parity , current research is based on two propositions which are widely accepted in North America : |
| 13 | On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ . |
| 14 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 15 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 16 | Certainly Freud was critical of the religious versions of reality which were generally accepted among the middle classes in the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and America . |
| 17 | If a change decreases the path length it is always accepted , whilst changes which increase the path length are only accepted with a probability depending in the current annealing temperature and the magnitude of the change . |
| 18 | But for those in Japan who do achieve a more secure status it is widely accepted that such benefits are unlikely to be renewed if the individual moves to another company . |
| 19 | On the other hand it is now accepted that Kennedy 's lengthy telephone calls to Macmillan fell short of " consultation " even if Macmillan 's official biographer argues that they " were certainly more than just 'informative' " . |
| 20 | Among political theorists it is widely accepted that , to sustain a democracy , participation and active citizenship should have only a minimal role . |
| 21 | This distinction corresponds , to some extent , with that between ‘ reformist ’ and ‘ revolutionary ’ parties , the former being concerned to accommodate unavoidable changes ( if they are more conservative ) or to bring about desirable changes ( if they are more radical ) within an existing social and political order which is broadly accepted , while the latter aim to establish a new order . |
| 22 | 1.2 Each order which is so accepted shall constitute an individual legally binding contract between the Seller and the Purchaser and such contract is hereafter referred to in these Conditions as an " Order " . |
| 23 | The BA Hons Business Studies is a qualification which is widely accepted and respected by industry , commerce and the public sector . |
| 24 | At the start of this century it was generally accepted that the care and control of the mentally ill and subnormal should be a public responsibility . |
| 25 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 26 | It is this view which is currently accepted by government . |
| 27 | Sometimes a vote results in a tie and to resolve the deadlock it is generally accepted , and often laid down in standing orders , that the Chairman has a casting vote in addition to the regular vote he may have . |