Example sentences of "we must accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must accept that study has proved that the Bible is not historically true in all its parts ; we must declare that no Christian need suppose the book of Genesis to be an accurate physical account of the making of the world , nor mind if study proves contradictions in the different accounts in the gospels . |
| 2 | First the fire of God 's anger burns so fiercely among them , that parts of the camp are destroyed ( again we must not try to rationalize these events : they are meant to be seen as miraculous , and whatever we think of such miracle , we must accept the terms in which the story is written ) . |
| 3 | HOWEVER confident we pretend to be that the Conservatives will be returned with a majority of at least 25 , we must accept the possibility that this gesticulating Welsh oaf will hold centre-stage until such time as the economy , public order and constitution collapse about his ears . |
| 4 | As Europeans we must accept a greater role in safeguarding the peace in our continent . |
| 5 | Some even promoted the idea of an enlightened socialist administration of the colonies — ‘ until the Federation of the world becomes an accomplished fact , we must accept the most responsible imperial federations available as a substitute for it' ( George Bernard Shaw ) . |
| 6 | So if we must accept that these climbers , or danglers , are kings of the mountains , then who comes next in this rigid pecking order ? |
| 7 | So we must accept that the creatures we will encounter in the Scottish hills are not the stuff of big game hunters ' after-dinner bragging , but they are varied and thrilling in their discovery nonetheless . |
| 8 | Improvements to animal welfare and the environment can only come about if they are perceived by us to have added value , and this means that the animals must continue to work for their living and we must accept the short-term economic consequences of working towards explainable , more humane , agriculture . |
| 9 | ‘ We must accept the fact that this is an age in which the cloth is being unwoven … ’ |
| 10 | We must accept that most data collection exercises will inevitably be a compromise on the grounds of cost and hence less than perfect data sets will be produced ; |
| 11 | We must accept some share of the blame ourselves , of course . ’ |
| 12 | If we are to be at all logical in our approach to contemporary ethics , we must accept this much . |
| 13 | We must accept that if we overindulge our eating , in itself this is not a disaster . |
| 14 | We must accept that injury is a real possibility but realize that we have no choice : we must fight and , to survive , we must win . |
| 15 | Now as a traditional climber I find the emergence of these new activities such as sport abseiling and sport climbing somewhat sterilised and regulated , but I suppose there is plenty of room in Britain for all offshoots and variations of the parent activity , and we must accept these developments with open arms as we did bolts and competitions . |
| 16 | Campbell telephones are bugged — and you know what she would do with that information — we must accept her protestations of innocence and lose the … ‘ |
| 17 | Yet if we are to be realistic in our starting-point we must accept that the relationships which give rise to nuclear catastrophe are likely to be relationships between sovereign states , each able to possess and deploy armed force for their own interests . |
| 18 | If we are to succeed as teachers ( or parents ) we must accept that children may well be brighter than us and blessed with a potential far beyond our own . |
| 19 | Then we must accept all the DHSS 's arguments in favour of the cohabitation rule , along with all forms of discrimination and oppression rooted in the assumption that women are men 's dependants , for the simple reason that the assumption is correct . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , we must accept an uneasy status quo and hope for the best . |
| 21 | Then , having discovered the true meaning , we must accept it as the word of God . |
| 22 | Surely we can not ; we must accept what we have as data and work to make the best of what we have , our environment and our circumstances . |
| 23 | If we take the starting of the wipers to be an effect of a given circumstance , we must accept that there is a type of circumstance which is connected with startings of wipers generally . |
| 24 | If we accept that there is a sexual aspect in relationships between parents and children , we must accept also that such aspects will enter into worker-client relationships . |
| 25 | We must accept that for the years immediately ahead these struggles will be essentially defensive and probably unable to make the transition to more stable , totalizing forms of politics . |
| 26 | It thus does not follow from the inappropriateness of the concession theory in modern conditions that we must accept the normative conclusions of the contract theory . |
| 27 | Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed . |
| 28 | Thus , according to Russell , since the possibility of a recurrence of the same " complexes of compresence " can not be excluded ( there is no equivalent of Leibniz 's principle of sufficient reason to ensure their numerical uniqueness ) we must accept that propositions about order in time , such as " If A precedes B , B does not precede A " , " If A is before B and B is before C , then A is before C " , etc. are merely empirical propositions and not inviolable a priori truths . |
| 29 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 30 | We must accept that for any given F , if x has F , x has it necessarily ; i.e. all the properties that x has are its defining properties . |