Example sentences of "accept [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers of this persuasion wished to accept for admission to higher education , and to English studies , only those students possessing a sufficiently high level of " qualitative literacy " and sufficiently hard-working and disciplined as well as competitively motivated to " benefit " from university education . |
| 2 | For instance , at the most basic level , the higher the profit margin the supplier receives for performing a contract , the greater the liability he can reasonably be asked to accept for failure to perform as promised . |
| 3 | Any single senior resident had to accept as part of his job the fact that his juniors were going to speculate constantly on his lack of a visible sex-life . |
| 4 | And if for the time being , that 's a high price , then that is one of the things that we 've got to accept as part of what 's going on in the Gulf , however painful that may be . |
| 5 | Alcuin was furious with Archbishop Aethelheard for fleeing but there must be a possibility , representing Carolingian interests as he did , that Alcuin was more disturbed by Aethelheard 's refusal to accept as king the Carolingian protégé , Eadberht Praen . |
| 6 | The explicit extension is the set of propositions which ( almost ) everyone said to be a party to the convention actually accepts as part of its extension . |
| 7 | The government had admitted that as the reforms ‘ deepened ’ there would be signs of inequalities and economic problems which the people had to accept with patience . |
| 8 | It 's entirely open to you to reject our way of working but to accept with equanimity the fact of our working . |
| 9 | The offeror should be clear as to what minimum percentage of the target 's share capital it is willing to accept in order to meet its key objectives . |
| 10 | Retention of street frontages is a trade-off developers have been willing to accept in return for planning permission . |
| 11 | Second , the Algerian negotiations between ETA and the Spanish government broke down over the government 's unwillingness to accept in principle the Basques ' right of self-determination . |
| 12 | In September 1990 Vietnam appeared to accept in principle the concept of " involuntary repatriation " , when it agreed to take back " economic migrants " who , " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " . |
| 13 | Bearing in mind the reference by Shelley J.A. , in Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , 180 , to the concept of counsel for the Crown as ‘ minister of justice whose prime concern is its fair and impartial administration , ’ their Lordships , while not feeling bound to accept in relation to Jamaica the comprehensive principles , almost amounting to criminal discovery , which the defendant has attempted to rely on , recognise that the ‘ Purvis–Barrett ’ principles do not cover every situation in which fairness may demand that the prosecution make available material to the defence . |
| 14 | The Law Society and The Bar have today finalised an alternative package of measures which they are urging the government to accept in place of the Lord Chancellor 's proposed cuts to legal aid eligibility , which the Society calculates could mean that up to 12 million people would be unable to afford legal aid . |
| 15 | THE Soviet Union accepts in principle confederation between East and West Germany , and expects that this key move towards German reunification will be ratified next year at the summit meeting of the 35 signatories of the Helsinki Declaration . |
| 16 | THE Soviet Union accepts in principle confederation between East and West Germany , and expects that this key move towards German reunification will be ratified next year at the summit meeting of the 35 signatories of the Helsinki Declaration . |
| 17 | In its strategy for continuing education provision for qualified nurses in Scotland , the Scottish National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting accepts in principle the recommendations of a working party on continuing education and professional development for the three professions which reported in 1981 . |
| 18 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 19 | Holland also accepts in retrospect that the left damaged its prospects in this regard by hitching its industrial policy to opposition to the EEC , so that the pro-EEC verdict of the 1975 referendum reduced the credibility of the left generally . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) If the defendant admits the claim ( or such part as the plaintiff accepts in satisfaction ) judgment may be entered and the question of payment dealt with ( Ord 17 , r 6 ) . |
| 21 | In the interests of the maintenance of international peace and security , Article 35 ( 2 ) of the United Nations Charter allows a non-member to bring a dispute to which it is a party to the attention of either organ of the Organisation , provided it accepts in advance the obligations of the pacific settlement of disputes for the purposes of the dispute . |
| 22 | Labour 's new environment spokesman , Mr Bryan Gould , attacked the price of shares in the water privatisation , saying it showed that the Government was prepared to accept on behalf of the taxpayer a loss of at least £1.3 billion in order to sell off the water industry . |
| 23 | Rowbotham accepts without criticism Horney 's reduction of the unconscious to basic needs , which presupposes a psychological subject of those needs . |
| 24 | She describes them , for example , as ‘ infantilised ’ ; she accepts without question research which purported to show that most women despised each other ( Millett , 1977 , p. 55 ) ; she sees women as having little ‘ self-respect ’ , and as devoting almost all their time and attention to pleasing and flattering men . |
| 25 | It accepts without demur ( a ) the separation of the mental ( unobservable ) from the behavioural ( observable ) on which the sceptical argument trades . |
| 26 | Because her expectations were realistic , she accepts without rancour the fact that she must either do the work herself or employ someone to do it for her . |
| 27 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 28 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats appear to accept without question the view that our constitution is absurdly out of date . |
| 29 | They were immediately replaced by Loppe , whose presence he appeared to accept without question and almost without greeting , as he did theirs . |
| 30 | She seemed to accept without question that Alexandra was the one who would handle the crisis , if it was still a crisis by the time she got into the office . |