Example sentences of "[pron] acceptable to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | His first Prayer Book was influenced by Luther ; his second more by Zwingli , in an attempt to make it acceptable to the Continental churches and enable a Reformed General Council to bring the whole of Christendom into a new and scriptural unity . |
2 | It was a style which many of the country 's administrators were familiar with , from their visits to France , and its classical origins made it acceptable to the cultured amateur . |
3 | However you view the almost indecent haste of sports organisations in South Africa to make themselves acceptable to the outside world , it is up to the individual governments to lift their own exclusions . |
4 | This can be expressed through disputes between high-bourgeois individuals , themselves acceptable to the legal system as with the Guildford Four , who , partly as a result of international pressure , had highly placed clerics and members of the judiciary supporting their release . |
5 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |