Example sentences of "to accept [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the name of modernisation and professionalism , Chinese architects and civil engineers are not prepared to accept for the towns any of those policies which have made their own rural housing programme a model for the Third World . |
| 2 | WWR would probably pass to another country for chairmanship but it is a move which I suspect British WW racers would be prepared to accept for the benefit of WWR as a whole . |
| 3 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 4 | Rebuilding work is due to get under way in the next few weeks when councillors decide which bid to accept for the contract . |
| 5 | 15 The high quality of the environment in the project areas provides a spectacular contrast with unreconstructed streets nearby — and indeed with the public environment we have grown to accept as the norm in Britain . |
| 6 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 7 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 8 | The prevalence of criminal motivations is not too difficult to accept in the case of examples such as that of speeding , used above . |
| 9 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 10 | It is important , therefore , to be clear about the differences as well as the similarities so that one can know what to query as well as what to accept in the concepts . |
| 11 | Where a company incorporated outside Great Britain establishes a place of business in Great Britain it must deliver to the Registrar of Companies a list of names and addresses of one or more persons resident in Great Britain and authorised to accept on the company 's behalf service of process and any notices required to be served on it . |
| 12 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 13 | On the special report , section and industrial conferences you 've been recommended to accept by the C E C. |