Example sentences of "to accept any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that believing in God involves an acceptance of uncertainty does not allow us to accept any degree of uncertainty , or that trust will also be misplaced . |
| 2 | I try to set an example , and I am more than willing to accept any degree of personal criticism and , indeed , get a lot of it — some of it rather hurtful . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union " flatly " refused to accept any degree of Japanese sovereignty over the territories and called on Japan to heed the " results of World War II regarding Soviet-held lands off Hokkaido " . |
| 4 | The Japanese government had indicated a willingness to provide " economic co-operation " to compensate for its colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but refused to accept any liability for the post-1945 period . |
| 5 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 6 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 7 | Thus they see no legal or moral obligation to accept any decision of the IWC on proposed quotas and moratoria . |
| 8 | IAAF president Primo Nebiolo has always refused to accept any decision taken by the American courts and that was still their stance last night . |
| 9 | artwork given , though the constructor making his own board can easily adapt the artwork to accept any component which he has available , provided that the electrical characteristics match those specified . |
| 10 | Since the Carlists were unlikely to accept any kind of power-sharing arrangement , it was less a question of making a political pact with them than of imposing the desired situation on them and limiting as far as possible their capacity to reject it . |
| 11 | Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part . |
| 12 | To my mind this is because the present policy of control to an ‘ acceptable ’ level is subject to different interpretations by different health authorities and the extreme interpretation can be to accept any level as is at present the case in most parts of tropical Africa . |
| 13 | Although some 40 senators had refused to accept any honoraria , the remaining 60 accepted a total of more than $1,400,000 in 1990 . |
| 14 | Syria will determine whether to accept any resettlement , or whether to continue its support of the refugee demand to return to Palestine , as a function of its own regional objectives . |
| 15 | We have to accept any price because otherwise we will die of hunger . ’ |
| 16 | I had never been able to persuade her to accept any money for her kindness and tried to reciprocate by doing any small repairs she needed to her flat , and by supplying occasional tickets for the theatre , for the tennis at Wimbledon , and for the races at Epsom . |
| 17 | While the subsequent Council of Trent greatly strengthened the moral , pastoral and even intellectual life of the Church , it was reluctant to accept any part of the Protestant doctrinal and institutional critique . |
| 18 | I think that he knows that it is difficult for the Government to accept any proposal before the question of Community law is resolved , and also that his proposals are relatively controversial . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's because America right now is a powder keg , ’ says Singleton , who refuses to accept any blame for the violent response to his film . |
| 20 | In this period few lairds could really afford the luxury of complete freedom of action in their politics , for the only means of avoiding ties of obligation , which were nonetheless real for being unspoken , was to refuse to accept any favour . |
| 21 | They said members would be unable to accept any women who might be ordained as priests . |
| 22 | Agents and their clients may also have the dilemma of deciding whether to accept any offers made prior to the auction . |
| 23 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 24 | He found it hard , almost impossible , to accept any deceit on Nikos 's part . |
| 25 | A particular provision in this respect ( Clause 10.08 ) should be included in the agreement to cover the case of a partner being appointed without the benefit of a charging clause where it is necessary to exclude him from participating in fees earned on behalf of the firm for work done in the estate or trust concerned : for him to accept any benefit through the firm 's involvement would be incompatible with his position as executor or trustee . |
| 26 | If you have a very large aquarium , more Ictalurus melas would be ideal if your specimen is not too set in its ways to accept any newcomers . |
| 27 | Fundamentalism is radically anti — catholic in its refusal to accept any form of priestly mediation . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it is not clear from current Marxist criticism and theory , which in the rainbow coalition is often buttressed by Lacanian ideas of the decentred self , whether it is prepared to accept any form at all of a personal , subjective or affective response , or whether all that must wait until after the revolution . |
| 29 | To reject the dualism of Christianity may be a refusal , or an inability , to accept any form of philosophical dualism . |
| 30 | But Tepilit refused to accept any suggestions that he had not killed the man deliberately . |