Example sentences of "accepting that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To vindicate Rawls ' position one requires convincing reasons first for excluding moral and religious beliefs from the information available behind the veil of ignorance , and second for accepting that neutral or maximally neutral principles will be chosen in these circumstances . |
| 2 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 3 | And no transgression , either , is involved in accepting that moral views and ideals must take account of , and be responsive to , facts . |
| 4 | Many people are uncertain about accepting that disabled artists might also be accountable to a disabled constituency . |
| 5 | While accepting that Roman Catholicism contained many errors and abuses , they denied that the pope was the Antichrist and that it was impossible for Catholics to attain salvation . |
| 6 | It was also acknowledged that it would be necessary to determine which information objects should be indexed , accepting that certain brochures , circulars and so on would probably be excluded from this general requirement . |
| 7 | Faced by such diverse interpretations of the new adversary , the Reagan Presidency in 1985 , rather than return to Kissinger 's ideal of ‘ linkage ’ in a period of détente , decided to pursue a policy of ‘ constructive confrontation ’ with Moscow , accepting that certain agreements with Russia were possible even if she remained a rival on the world stage . |
| 8 | Increasingly today , they are accepting that scientific pronouncements have an unavoidable element , not only of subjectivity , but also of informed guesswork about them . |
| 9 | I do not make any apology for accepting that single millionaires will be at an advantage in that situation , but the millions of people on lowish incomes , particularly the retired , will be penalised most . |
| 10 | O'Brien 's solution bears a remarkable similarity to the Ulster Unionists ' — even-handed selective internment , first in the North and then in the South , accompanied by a determination by London to drop its neutrality , accepting that direct rule is the best thing available , politically . |
| 11 | Accepting that very is an emphasizing device , it is seldom plausible to take it as an intensifier of the property or properties expressed by the noun which it appears to qualify syntactically . |