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

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1 These are the widespread fictions or myths about the language , some of which are so universally accepted as to be pedagogical orthodoxy .
2 In practice , this largely means freezing out local authority representatives and the relevant trade unions , which , compared to south of the border , are more generally accepted as deserving a place in public life .
3 Its estimates of job losses in the ferry ports are still broadly accepted although there is little evidence of much decline as yet .
4 However , it can be seen that her presence could be more readily accepted if there were comparable Commissioners in existence , assisting in areas other than those involving trade union members and their unions .
5 A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience .
6 I am glad therefore that the idea of appointed or co-opted members as well as magistrates seen now to be pretty widely accepted if I understand the Noble Lord , Lord 's amendment .
7 The liabilities of financial institutions are quite willingly accepted as financial assets by their holders , i.e. bank depositors and insurance policy holders .
8 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 .
9 Privileges and self-regulation are no longer accepted as necessary corollaries of professional status .
10 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 .
11 More usually , however , the denial of the sex motive is more readily accepted if there is an alternative explanation .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Although the battle has been hard and long , and from time to time skirmishes still occur , computing is now largely accepted as being a necessary instrument in Clio 's weaponry , albeit in some cases a weapon of deterrence rather than attack .
15 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 .
16 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 ) .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John .
23 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 ’ ) .
24 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 ) .
25 It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws .
26 We will not assign these spectra in detail , but it is now generally accepted that the ruthenium complex has three units held together only by metal-metal bonding , whereas the iron complex has bridging CO ligands , as well as many terminal ones .
27 There is a rich variety of different forecasting procedures , and it is now generally accepted that no one method is ‘ best ’ in every situation , but rather that the choice depends on various practical considerations .
28 It is now generally accepted that FAP is fully penetrant ( polyps are present ) if the bowel is examined endoscopically .
29 The term ‘ inflammatory fibroid polyp ’ is now generally accepted and is regarded as distinct from eosinophilic gastroenteritis and other conditions with which it had been previously confused .
30 For a variety of reasons this type of explanation must be rejected today and the explosive diversification of Metazoa across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary , as recorded in the strata , is now generally accepted as being a true reflection of what actually happened ( Stanley , 1976 ; Seilacher , 1977 ) .
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