Example sentences of "[adv] accept [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since this section of the novel is the longest , the reader eventually accepts such constructions as the norm . |
| 2 | But this does not mean that it takes the conservative stance of necessarily accepting existing definitions of crime . |
| 3 | As it takes approximately three or four days to clear a personal cheque , more hotels are adopting the policy of only accepting personal cheques for payments in advance , or with seven day 's notice if payment of the bill is to be made by cheque . |
| 4 | The issue of planning is complex since it involves far more than merely accepting new structures and new forms of co-operation — for in effect it involves recognising a new dimension of financial commitment at a time when money is short . |
| 5 | However , as with the English infinitive , the speaker is not merely accepting this happening as a fact but is passing judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence : the verb regretter here expresses a " critical idea " through which the happening être venu is " viewed " ( Guillaume 1971a : 218 ) . |
| 6 | Please note that Italy only accepts small packets up to 1kg , Australia , Cuba , Myanmar and Papua New Guinea up to 500 g . |
| 7 | Consistent cleanliness ; is only achieved if a manager personally accepts that cleaning is a necessary and important part of a food operation . |
| 8 | In their turn the barbarians not only accepted Greek gods , but assimilated many of their own gods to Greek gods . |
| 9 | While the Labour government basically accepted these proposals ( see Local Government Reform in England , 1970 ) the Conservatives , who came to power in 1970 , produced alternative ideas which were ultimately incorporated into the 1972 Local Government Act . |
| 10 | These topics are typically the subject matter of multilateral treaties which define mutually accepted uniform standards . |
| 11 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |
| 12 | Oxford Polytechnic 's Modular Course has long accepted this conclusion . |
| 13 | All machines have to meet stringent dating requirements and the organisers only accept pre-1915 veterans . |
| 14 | I therefore decline to don the straitjacket of those scientists ( not all ) who can only accept such facts as they reach via their own limited , analytic logic ; who tend to study the parts in ever narrowing detail but too seldom consider the whole . |
| 15 | In some ways , such horses are like certain breeds of dogs who will only accept one owner in their lifetime . |
| 16 | Bernard had to act as ‘ go-between ’ as Laura would only accept bad news or limitations to her independence from him , certainly not from an accountant who was later to describe her designs as ‘ itsy-bitsy prints ’ necessary to camouflage the bad quality of the fabric . |
| 17 | His father was sick and the private hospital he was in would only accept hard currency . |
| 18 | The class have to plead for mercy on his behalf , but the King 's envoy will only accept written pleas . |
| 19 | While one country may be geared up for credit cards with hole-in-the wall machines everywhere you look , another may only accept local currency or travellers cheques . |
| 20 | Although cautious from years in the PC minefield which is contemporary academia , he has a mind of his own and does not necessarily accept contemporary cant . |
| 21 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 22 | Ironically enough , some states , such as Jordan , Tunisia , Algeria and Morocco , have begun the painful process of establishing limited democratic structures , but they do not necessarily accept Western views of what security in the Middle East and North Africa should be . |
| 23 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 24 | In this era , it is widely accepted that collectivism was an ideal cultural trait which could be harnessed to the growth of aggressive nationalism . |
| 25 | It is widely accepted that fibrin degradation products released after the action of plasmin on fibrin contribute to the development of inflammatory changes in several organs by increasing the permeability of the vasculature to protein . |
| 26 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 27 | From the 16th century , doctors widely accepted that teething was responsible for a multiplicity of childhood illnesses , including convulsions and death , and recommended a protective measure that babies ' gums should be lacerated ‘ to liberate the death ’ . |
| 28 | It is widely accepted that City regulation is too fragmented to meet the challenges of insider-dealing and market manipulation . |
| 29 | It is widely accepted that infection is the primary cause of Whipple 's disease , but the importance of an associated immune deficiency in starting or promoting persistence of the infection is less clear . |
| 30 | Although the American Anthropological Association 's statement on ethics is of some relevance to sociolinguists and is easily accessible as an appendix to a book which deals specifically with ethical problems in fieldwork ( Rynkiewich and Spradley 1971 ) , linguists do not in general have recourse to a widely accepted ethical code . |