Example sentences of "not accept that " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but I 'd turn round and and not accept it if er , if the , I 'd say no , we 're not accepting that because in the April we do n't get that money .
2 It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation .
3 Soviet leaders have not accepted that the essence of the Brezhnev initiative for the Gulf could be applied to the different strategic and military environment in which Afghanistan lies .
4 For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage .
5 Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ?
6 The state 's Police Minister , Ted Pickering , a consistent opponent of tighter gun laws , responded by saying that he did " not accept that any firearm is more dangerous than any other " .
7 In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster .
8 Usually they really believe this and do not accept that they have made a mistake .
9 With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach .
10 They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think .
11 His Lordship could not accept that a sensible construction of paragraph 19 involved that , provided only the commercial deputising service was large and efficient enough , the FPC was in practice obliged to give its consent even though it knew that the doctor in question intended to delegate his entire practice to such an organisation .
12 Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’
13 ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’
14 They can not accept that one of their most cherished foxes has been shot .
15 Mr Overbye does not accept that theories currently in vogue are necessarily true .
16 Some such open acceptance of our intellectual limitations would not be unrelated to Pyrrhonian ataraxia or peace of mind ; but although Locke does , indeed , conclude that the truth often outruns our ability to know it , he certainly does not accept that nothing can be known .
17 He could not accept that Christ 's Atonement was not in some sense , applicable to the entire human race .
18 In both cases , one could make the point against Flew that the believer does not accept that nothing would count against his or her belief in God .
19 It did not accept that J had a learning difficulty .
20 In the first instance , he did not accept that there were classes among the Muslims , so there could be no class struggle .
21 we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done .
22 I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world .
23 But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed .
24 I told the Cabinet that I could not accept that the traditional basis for collective responsibility had been established .
25 I do not accept that a home aquarium system can be devised which requires no water changes at all .
26 Those who would insist on an agreed blueprint of morality , or a set of moral values , to which all our aims and actions must be subject , would not accept that there are moral dilemmas .
27 Nevertheless , I do not accept that his pessimism is warranted in Britain .
28 Following a recent PAYE audit the officer concerned would not accept that this vehicle is a pool car because of the factor just described above .
29 I do not accept that they did .
30 As the Commissioners could not accept that there were any mitigating circumstances , the maximum penalty of £300 for each year was imposed .
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