Example sentences of "if we accept [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we accept that public opinion broadly comes in two varieties : the popular and what can be regarded as the informed , each of the two strands is clearly visible whenever Parliament addresses the topic of criminal justice . |
| 2 | If we accept that science is objective , then it is more difficult to challenge its practice in modern society ; the scientist can always argue that his work is morally neutral . |
| 3 | If we accept that accountability can be interpreted in a moral and professional , as well as a contractual , sense then it is possible to assume a concept of professional development . |
| 4 | There remains , however , a wide range of views covering more obviously political aspects of the phenomena which could only be described together as ‘ elitist ’ if we accept that term as a residual category . |
| 5 | If we accept this neutral hypothesis , the rate of evolution for a given class of protein , for example haemoglobin , measured as amino acid substitutions per million years , will be roughly constant . |
| 6 | ‘ If we accept this — that you can give us information that will help us to rear better offspring — how do you propose this information be used ? ’ |
| 7 | Even if we accept this , it is questionable how useful an analytical framework is which has an untenable base . |
| 8 | If we accept this division between two different approaches to the search for order and regularity in language , it is not accurate to regard the second , discourse analysis , as something totally new , without any kind of pedigree in the language study of the past . |
| 9 | If we accept this view , we need to consider what decision making is about and then examine the various prescriptions on how best to make decisions . |
| 10 | But we are always on dangerous grounds if we accept this as anything other than a last resort in the absence of really adequate evidence of evolving fossil lineages . |
| 11 | If we accept this , then we might have an objective principle for distinguishing between the relevant and irrelevant associations of words in a text , for ordering its parts according to their relative importance , and for connecting these parts with one another . |
| 12 | All the letters suggest different ways in which the Bill can be improved , but if we accept this awful timetable motion tonight a Bill of nearly 100 clauses will have very limited time for discussion , and the guillotine will fall in Committee . |
| 13 | But , even if we accept these directions as a legitimate part of the A text , what Faustus 's damnation consists of is not clear . |