Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase . |
| 32 | Announcing the terms for the December 12 Stock Exchange launch , the water minister , Mr Michael Howard , refused to accept that the Government will face a paper loss of more than £1.3 billion . |
| 33 | Announcing the terms for the December 12 Stock Exchange launch , the water minister , Mr Michael Howard , refused to accept that the Government will face a paper loss of more than £1.3 billion on the sell-off . |
| 34 | Greece and Turkey will be asked to accept that the border between them must not be changed by force , and to agree to a set of ‘ confidence-building measures ’ — pull-backs from the border , inspectors on the ground , aerial reconnaissance — to help them trust each other . |
| 35 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 36 | For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage . |
| 37 | But after two or three hours and nil results , you have to accept that the trail is cold and you ca n't justify that level of manpower . |
| 38 | Americans had to accept that the pursuit of more aggressive policies would " almost certainly cause the disintegration of the free world bloc " . |
| 39 | Ever since … since before Galileo scientists have had to accept that the idiot mass does n't comprehend , ca n't see what good science can do . |
| 40 | On the one hand , in a certain sense , all the elements which comprise X condition the tribunal 's power to decide upon Y. The statute says , explicitly or implicitly , if X you may or shall do Y. On the other hand , to accept that the reviewing courts should be the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of all the elements comprising the X factor would cause review to become very like appeal . |
| 41 | Hib-E scholars have apparently always been quite happy to accept that the meat/mate merger is a true merger ( see citations in J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 : 200 ) , and Bliss ( 1979 : 208–10 ) cites evidence to show that these two classes had merged in Hib-E by around 1700 . |
| 42 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 43 | The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge . |
| 44 | Yes well I think to answer bo both of yo your concerns , first of all we have to accept that the Planning Committee has , actually has power to make its decisions not to come back to this Council so I 'm afraid it is a decision of the Planning Committee . |
| 45 | We have to accept that the reality is that we are always already on the slope , holding a position . |
| 46 | Perhaps if someone invented a time machine ( almost certainly a scientific impossibility ) archaeologists would have the satisfaction of being able to prove and disprove each other 's theories ; failing that , we have to accept that the science of the distant past is a matter of informed deduction and , let us face it , guesswork . |
| 47 | ‘ But there 's no use in creating false expectations … the question is whether there 's a will to accept that the killing has to stop . ’ |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | But there was a marked reluctance to accept that the situation was as serious as Keynes portrayed it ( a portrayal broadly supported by a paper from the Balance of payments Working party ) . |
| 50 | As early as the autumn of 1953 the US National Security Council was coming to accept that the situation in Eastern Europe was unlikely to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 51 | To increase the reliability of police investigations we need , in the first place , to accept that the cause for flawed police results is generally rooted in serious problems encountered in attempts to determine what happened in the past . |
| 52 | They resented its reluctance to accept that the opinion of a psychologist based on test evidence was more valid than the opinion of the man in the street — or on the jury — based on observation , and they were annoyed that the court failed to recognise that the tests involved were as confidential as those carried out by any other medical practitioner . |
| 53 | This attitude is linked to their refusal to accept that the prohibition of inhumane weapons applies to nuclear weapons . |
| 54 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
| 55 | Even Party reports had to accept that the speech , at least in this point , had ‘ not found everywhere the response it deserved ’ . |
| 56 | Today the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke refused to accept that the security services were involved in taping members of the Royal family … |
| 57 | Razak seemed to accept that the ZOPFAN and the Soviet proposals supplemented each other to some extent . |
| 58 | You might like to know that the water alone in this aquarium is going to weigh 400lb ( 182kg ) , without the rocks , gravel and all the glass , so do n't position it on the coffee table . |
| 59 | He had only to recall the inevitability of their first coming together , her passionate , uncomplicated , animal gusto in their lovemaking to know that the thought was paranoid . |
| 60 | As you all know our fund-raising project last years was the 200 Club and those of you who joined the club will be pleased to know that the venture made a good profit . |