Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] was [adv] accepted " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she was under his protection she was grudgingly accepted by the rest of the gang . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | By the rulers of the ancient provinces of Abyssinia and by the nobility as a whole he was universally accepted as Emperor . |
| 4 | He offered to look at the engine of her car , an offer which was gratefully accepted . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |