Example sentences of "[pron] [be] accepted " in BNC.

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1 Toyota reckon to get 50 to 100 suggestions each year from every employee and about 50% of them are accepted .
2 I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call .
3 I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead .
4 I was accepted — but only on their terms .
5 I remember how happy I was when I was accepted at Hamburg University , because I could at last get away from my mother 's asparagus dishes . ’
6 I was accepted as a candidate — indeed , the only candidate — for this post , but in March 1992 the jury refused to let me take the examination owing to the absence of the document recognizing my title .
7 From that moment , I felt I was accepted , and set to work to learn as much as I could , and make as many friends as possible .
8 In 1980 , I was accepted at Manchester Polytechnic and produced an illustrated study of the relationships between the plants of the buttercup family and their insect visitors .
9 I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before .
10 I was accepted after about three month or four month you know , I was accepted as one of the
11 I was accepted after about three month or four month you know , I was accepted as one of the
12 The Lords avoid controversy on financial questions , which are accepted as being the responsibility of the Commons , but otherwise they see little harm in asking the Commons to think again on points of detail .
13 For our purposes , facts may be defined as statements which are accepted to be true and may be supported by evidence .
14 We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them .
15 We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them .
16 Already , we 're miles behind with catching up with standards which are accepted elsewhere .
17 Those Catholic students who are undertaking their initial teacher education , and who for personal reasons , which are accepted as reasonable by St Andrew 's College , can not attend St Andrew 's College .
18 Although the substances treated in this work were not categorized as precious primarily on account of their economic value , the mere fact of their being accepted as such , combined with their scarcity in nature , inevitably led to their being used to serve economic ends .
19 Although many firms do continue to diversify , there has been a growing mood against conglomerates and away from the notion that diversification was an automatic virtue and an inescapable trend , views which were accepted by most people in the 1960s and 1970s .
20 Following a Change Review Meeting , the Change Coordinator will submit Change Request and Change Review Forms to the Director , Information Systems for proposed changes which were accepted or whose rejection would be contentious .
21 The plaintiff 's bar responded vigorously , developing a series of arguments many of which were accepted in a leading case in the Fifth Circuit , Re Anschuetz & Co .
22 After a debate in the House of Commons on the White Paper 's proposals , which were accepted without dissent , an amended scheme was announced in June which came into effect on 1 August 1964 .
23 Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days .
24 Counsel for the taxpayers in his reported submissions , which were accepted by Lord Browne-Wilkinson , referred to ‘ clear statements showing the intention of the promoter of the Bill ’ and to where ‘ a minister clearly states the effect of a provision ’ .
25 I think things that which were accepted , are no longer brought up
26 Every action which is accepted as kindly , every individual act of devotion and sacrifice , whether made in the havoc of war or in times of peace , every act of generosity and in fact every good thing which has resulted from the endless struggle to uphold the decision to master the violent and lustful urges which are a legacy from the evolutionary process , will play its part in providing units of goodness to be enshrined in the Created God .
27 Available as a Hot Brush ( £17.95 ) ; Tong ( £14.95 ) or a combination of the two ( £19.95 ) , Free Curl is powered by a ThermaCELL gas cartridge which is accepted on any aircraft in checked-in-luggage .
28 What is called ‘ biological determinism ’ is not more of an attack on freedom than the social determinism ( or economic determinism ) which is accepted without moral qualms throughout the social sciences .
29 This will be based upon legitimacy , i.e. that which is accepted within a particular society as conferring the right to rule .
30 Until there is an offer which is accepted , there is no contract .
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