Example sentences of "is accepted [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charge for the call can be transferred to the number called if it is accepted when the operator offers the call . |
| 2 | While , under the IRR acceptance rule , we would accept Project C and the incremental project ( D minus C ) , the same rule rejects the sum of the two projects , Project D. The incremental project is accepted because its IRR of 14 per cent is greater than the opportunity cost of capital of 10 per cent . |
| 3 | An order for payment out will be needed whenever the money in court is accepted if it was paid in by one of two or more defendants . |
| 4 | A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt . |
| 5 | Most cultures recognise three broad stages of development , in both the individual and the group : ( a ) Primitive response to nature : Nature is accepted as containing all systems of order and mankind attempts its interpretation by immediate response to its stimuli . |
| 6 | Faith here means a commitment to believe in the face of evidence that is accepted as ambiguous , like the commitment of the partisan in the face of the ambiguous behaviour of the stranger in Mitchell 's parable . |
| 7 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 8 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal accepted his argument , albeit reluctantly , saying that , in the experience of the members deciding the case , in practice a redundancy ‘ is accepted as having been shown where it is demonstrated that the actual job which the claimant was carrying out had ceased to exist ’ . |
| 9 | The ‘ body part ’ reading therefore escapes being given a penalty point , and is accepted as being referentially more successful ( see Carter 1987a for a fuller discussion ) . |
| 10 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 11 | Each contribution , from whatever source , is capable of assessment in terms of units of goodness , and when that goodness is accepted as such by a large majority , it can be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 12 | Every action which is accepted as kindly , every individual act of devotion and sacrifice , whether made in the havoc of war or in times of peace , every act of generosity and in fact every good thing which has resulted from the endless struggle to uphold the decision to master the violent and lustful urges which are a legacy from the evolutionary process , will play its part in providing units of goodness to be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 13 | of this species is accepted as it is described in Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae of G.H.K. Thwaites . |
| 14 | We need to refer to more general and conventional assumptions and beliefs which define what is accepted as normal or typical in respect of the way reality is structured and to the conduct of social life . |
| 15 | Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster , more cost-effective and more humane . |
| 16 | When this care of old people is short-lived , the inevitable prelude to death , it is accepted as natural . |
| 17 | Francis Bacon is accepted as one of the few ‘ greatest ’ British artists of the 20th century , on a level with say Henry Moore in sculpture . |
| 18 | The requirement implied in this formulation , that I am always morally obliged to do the best I can , is accepted as reasonable by some commentators , while it is thought of as unreasonably demanding by others . |
| 19 | Again , as in the previous case , if this aesthetic response is accepted as especially characteristic of women 's moral awareness , it can be argued that it is an important element to incorporate in any full account of the moral . |
| 20 | It has important implications for sociology , if it is accepted as in any sense true . |
| 21 | This predominantly one-directional social mobility was the pattern up until the quadrupling of oil prices in the winter of 1973 — 4 , an event which , for the purposes of this book , is accepted as marking the end of the post-war period in Britain . |
| 22 | Anything you do is accepted as long as it 's not interfering with children . |
| 23 | Workers are loyal , and the prerogative of management is accepted as paternal , and in everyone 's best interests . |
| 24 | By developing these devices in the light of modern technology , Brooke-Rose is able to circumvent the conventions of realism while still remaining within the bounds of what is accepted as novelistic . |
| 25 | The church is to be free of prejudices ; everyone is accepted as they are , as individuals who are following Jesus as their Lord . |
| 26 | Faceted classification is accepted as providing a sound theoretical basis for the construction of classification schemes . |
| 27 | There he became a renowned ornithologist where his work is recognised to-day as being of immense scientific value and he is accepted as being the father of American Ornithology . |
| 28 | We disagree : LAWER accentuates the moral problems doctors face once euthanasia is accepted as normal medical practice . |
| 29 | In both cases tacit knowledge and experience is accepted as valid and enhanced and developed . |
| 30 | The L1 , which may be present in faeces and sputum , has a small cephalic button , and a wavy tail with a subterminal notch , and its presence in association with respiratory and circulatory signs is accepted as confirmatory . |