Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [adj] accept that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm quite prepared to accept that you 're Miss Fanshawe now , Miss Fanshawe , ’ Wexford said . |
| 2 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 3 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 4 | Seemingly , they are also happy to accept that the meat/meet merger is also a true merger , and that some people alternate between these two merged classes . |
| 5 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |
| 6 | So would it be more realistic to accept that a voluntary system is doomed and legislate for compliance ? |
| 7 | While it is comparatively easy to accept that in the primary years children have particular and specific qualities and that effective learning is most likely to take place in an environment which meets their intellectual , physical , social and emotional needs , it is much more difficult to define the components which make the learning environment effective . |
| 8 | It was desperately hard to accept that this serene man , so calm , so dignified , such a majestic cricketer , could have been taken in this way . |
| 9 | As I sat just outside the entrance to the trench it was very difficult to accept that Taff was dead . |