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

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1 Now , I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends .
2 Avoiding any " anthropomorphic " assumptions , observations of the regularity of respiration , open or closed eyes , movements and vocalisation have resulted in the definition of five mutually exclusive syndromes or states which are now widely accepted .
3 Jesus Christ professed , according to the writings which are still currently accepted , that he believed in this ‘ god ’ .
4 These are the widespread fictions or myths about the language , some of which are so universally accepted as to be pedagogical orthodoxy .
5 It was characteristic of the radical agitational movements in Derry to echo ideas which were already widely accepted , but to put them forward in a more aggressive , combative and militant style .
6 Lorenz ( 1966 ) popularized the fact of restrained fighting ( together with his own explanation of it , which is no longer accepted ) .
7 If one were to peruse the extensive range of surveys of the applications of the rational expectations hypothesis to macroeconomics , one would come across a different framework of analysis , one which is so widely accepted that it is rarely explained in any detail , still less is its theoretical basis probed critically or its conclusions called into question .
8 And if you do n't fit into that category , you 're just not accepted , and you 're just like , ugly .
9 Their importance as a model of convection has diminished , it being almost universally accepted that they are a suitable model for the original problem only at relatively uninteresting parameter values , and their claim to physical relevance now rests mainly on their connection with the Maxwell-Bloch equations for lasers , and on convection problems in specially shaped ( usually toroidal ) regions .
10 Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence .
11 The generally accepted dates for these campaigns are 817/1414 and 818/1415 ; and it is likewise generally accepted that the second resulted in a much more decisive Ottoman success than the first .
12 But it is surely generally accepted that some level of participation is necessary whatever approach to systems design and development is adopted .
13 It has been calculated that , at some point in her life , one woman in five will be infected with this parasite and it is also generally accepted that the organism is almost exclusively sexually transmitted .
14 It is also generally accepted that during the fourth century not only were units of a field army serving in Britain but also regular troops were acting as urban garrisons .
15 Neither of these extreme dogma is applied rigorously today , but it is certainly still accepted that 2-D form makes good pattern .
16 It is currently widely accepted that regional divergence in living standards within countries is the norm ( Bennett , 1980 , 67 ) .
17 It is fairly universally accepted that Chinese is not related to any of the four other languages , so the similarity can not be because these words are cognate .
18 Much of the heat has by now gone out of these arguments , and it is fairly generally accepted , first that college librarians should be appointed on teaching scales and given academic status by nature of their work , and secondly that the work of a college librarian implies the librarian 's own active participation as a librarian in the college 's educational programme .
19 It is now increasingly accepted by scientists that moderate drinking offers protection against heart disease .
20 It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA .
21 However , it is now generally accepted that β-thromboglobulin levels are elevated in diabetics ( Davis et al , 1979 ) and further evidence came from a large study of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 in diabetics compared to age- and sex-matched controls ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) .
22 Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) .
23 It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College .
24 It is now generally accepted that nurture — the environment in which a child grows up — is a more important factor than heredity when it comes to the intelligence of the resulting adult human being .
25 It is now generally accepted that , about a lightyear from the Sun , far beyond the orbit of Pluto , there is a belt of at least 10 million comets , collectively known as the Oort Cloud , after the great Dutch astronomer Ian Oort .
26 It is now generally accepted that there is a division of labour within the brain , with different parts of the brain carrying out different functions .
27 It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John .
28 It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) .
29 Origin of Wings and Flight — It is now generally accepted that wings arose , perhaps in the early Devonian , as lateral expansions of the thoracic terga ( Hamilton , 197 z ) .
30 It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws .
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