Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] admitted that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be admitted that these potatoes look obscene . |
| 2 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 3 | It must be admitted that Belgium is not the best advertisement for purveyors of hung parliaments . |
| 4 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 5 | Certainly it must be admitted that there are a number of relevant issues about development in general on which prior opinions have to be formed — one of the most important is the relationship between rapid population growth and soil erosion which has been briefly discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 6 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 7 | Friday is market day and it must be admitted that even in these times of high-speed travel , mini-breaks , and the lure of the larger towns , Combsburgh comes alive . |
| 8 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 9 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 10 | It must be admitted that in deliberately excluding considerations of principle we are crediting the traveller with a rather narrow kind of intelligence , acute though it may be . |
| 11 | Despite her efforts to be helpful and well-behaved , Mildred had an uncanny knack of appearing to be the cause of any trouble which was occurring , and it must be admitted that there were occasions ( particularly when her rather wild imagination ran away with her ) when she managed to turn some peaceful event into a scene of total chaos . |
| 12 | Unlike Stalin and Khruschev , Elena did not use her dilettante approach to science to promote a bogus figure like the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko — though it must be admitted that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's interventions in agricultural practice often recalled the half-baked interference of Lysenko 's patron , Khruschev . |
| 13 | It must be admitted that to a certain extent I am presenting a caricature of the Shavante , if for no other reason than I do not know them as well as the Piaroa . |
| 14 | While it must be admitted that the republic in which it is set down has its less attractive aspects , the Canal itself is a thing of unexpected spectacle and beauty . |
| 15 | In many ways it must be admitted that his thought was unbalanced and inadequately developed . |
| 16 | The ergonomics approach to their use is shown in Fig. 2.4 but it must be admitted that this is as yet rarely followed in practice . |
| 17 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 18 | ( At the same time it must be admitted that no Secretary of State has ever said that he accepts one either , though his order to publish a report might be taken as such an admission . ) |
| 19 | It must be admitted that the common law courts lack any discernible scheme for this redistributive pattern . |
| 20 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |
| 21 | To sum up this chapter 's survey of what people believe about sleep and dreaming — what seem to be the self-evident truths — it must be admitted that there is very little consensus . |
| 22 | A particular difficulty would seem to be that the proportion of left handed inverters found in the general population does not correspond to the proportion of sinistrals estimated on other grounds to have left hemisphere speech ( Searleman , Tweedy and Springer , 1979 ) although it must be admitted that the range of estimates of both proportions has varied quite widely and there is at least some overlap . |
| 23 | It must be admitted that magnetic materials behave most unreasonably . |
| 24 | Indeed it must be admitted that there are at least two other sites in Egypt which lay claim to this distinction . |
| 25 | But it must be admitted that this is not a very strong distinction , for in Dudley and Stephens the jury also found that ‘ at the time of the act there was no sail in sight , nor any reasonable prospect of relief ’ ; and it would seem that if the law recognises necessity as a defence it should proceed upon the facts as they appeared to the defendant at the time . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it must be admitted that the terminology of deafness , as far as the general public is concerned , remains largely unchanged . |
| 27 | My spacious room was infinitely more cheerful than the sunless box in the Novotel but , it must be admitted that , probably because the hotel has captive custom for most of the year , it is n't perfect . |
| 28 | However , it must be admitted that many of the greatest choral composers also restricted their horizons in very much the same way . |
| 29 | For it must be admitted that the courageous citizens of Phocaea were among the most consistently self-righteous colonizers of the Greek commonwealth . |
| 30 | But it must be admitted that the interpretation of the earlier building as a temple lacks conviction . |