Example sentences of "accepted [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 2 | She was watching the chief inspector 's face as she said it , and she knew that he believed her , and accepted her as a good witness . |
| 3 | They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past . |
| 4 | Joyce accepted it as a necessary tactic by Hitler . |
| 5 | At the time I accepted it as a marvellous background for the all-important hunting , though too young really to appreciate this privileged glimpse of Indian court life . |
| 6 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |