Example sentences of "[pron] are 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 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 .
3 For our purposes , facts may be defined as statements which are accepted to be true and may be supported by evidence .
4 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ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them .
5 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ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them .
6 Already , we 're miles behind with catching up with standards which are accepted elsewhere .
7 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 .
8 Students who are nationals of one of the member states of the European Community ( other than the United Kingdom ) and who are accepted on undergraduate courses at the University of Ulster will , in most cases , be eligible to receive a mandatory award to cover the payment of fees .
9 Turn to him and the gospel will declare , ‘ You are accepted . ’
10 The first radical lesson is to stop pretending : you are accepted !
11 One you are accepted , payment drops straight into this ‘ business ’ account every fortnight .
12 Many older women probably avoid relationships for similar reasons but , once they get over the inhibitions , it can be very reassuring to know that you are accepted , varicose veins , belly and all .
13 It was the sort of place where you are accepted for what you claim to be , your worth depending on how much gold or silver you have in your purse .
14 We are accepted as such by all centres undertaking this work .
15 His presence at the Father 's side is the silent guarantee that we are accepted .
16 Even if they are accepted from conviction , perhaps more often the case than political statements would imply , major vested interests have to be combatted to implement them .
17 Criminal statistics are usually quoted as ‘ hard facts ’ ; that is , they are accepted unquestioningly , and are often used to support the view that there is a rapidly increasing rate of serious crime in modern society .
18 But now , after three years , they are accepted and respected and relied upon .
19 They are accepted by most hotels , shops and garages .
20 There is a danger of assuming that the Japanese have not rejected the contemporary institutions of collectivism because they are accepted as ideal .
21 His only chance of escape from that prospect is by opting to give and then in fact giving a replacement specimen of whichever kind the constable requires of him , subject only to his right to object to giving blood on medical grounds , and , if they are accepted by the doctor , then to give urine instead .
22 publish changes as they are accepted in a periodical publication , cumulating these in a new edition of all or parts of the schedules , as suitable .
23 Those drawn in sterling are the most easily negotiated in the London market although there is a ready market for foreign currency bills providing they are accepted payable in London .
24 He expanded this view by referring to a number of authorities , which could only be truly explained by saying that certain contracts have become part of " the accepted machinery of a type of transaction which is generally found acceptable and necessary ; so that instead of being regarded as restrictive they are accepted as part of the structure of a trading society " .
25 Well now , you 've had the Minutes of the last A G M meeting , that blue copy , and may I take it that er you accept those , and we can agree that they are accepted .
26 Assuming they are accepted into next year 's Associate Members Cup — the decision will be made in July — the Scottish Cricket Union 's plans are well in hand and involve the players being away from home for five successive weeks .
27 It will take a complete re-education of the public , as well as considerable political courage and will-power , before ‘ health ’ regains its proper meaning , and policies geared to achieving it are accepted .
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