adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a possible/acceptable/satisfactory alternative
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I’m busy tomorrow but Wednesday is a possible alternative.
acceptable
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All too often their behaviour has fallen below acceptable standards.
acceptable/unacceptable
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This sort of behavior is completely unacceptable.
an acceptable/reasonable/satisfactory compromise
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By 1982 an acceptable compromise had been reached.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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A margin of error of 10% is seen as acceptable .
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Thus, what was viewed as acceptable was determined largely by the centres' main client group - elderly disabled people.
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Does the Minister regard that as acceptable ?
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Arguably, however, the midwife's record of a normal fetal heart rate should be just as acceptable as evidence.
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And that is as acceptable an approach as a little touch of Harry at the conference.
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The twelve hour course was not generally as acceptable .
environmentally
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The alternative route was chosen on three criteria: that it should be environmentally acceptable , operationally effective and financially viable.
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Overall processing costs are highly competitive with other existing, environmentally acceptable technologies.
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Charcoal consumption from these sources is not environmentally acceptable .
generally
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As a consequence, the goldsmiths' receipts began to circulate as generally acceptable means of payment.
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From the federal perspective, generally acceptable activities were being planned and carried out, largely on local initiative.
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But on this and all other questions there were enormous gaps in the knowledge necessary for coming to generally acceptable decisions.
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The ride is firm but generally acceptable .
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The bases and policies used by the audit should be generally acceptable both to the accountancy profession and to the business community.
less
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To have left the tube and drain in place for 14-21 days would have been ideal but less acceptable to the patient.
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The idea of a union, of solidarity, is becoming less and less acceptable .
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For girls, this was less acceptable .
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Even in labor it is becoming less acceptable .
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Smoking in the workplace is becoming less and less acceptable .
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As we shall see in Chapter 2, this claim has now become less plausible and less acceptable .
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When prices do change, however, the income statement becomes less acceptable as a measure of performance.
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This will be much less acceptable .
more
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Medical advances in recent years have made male and female sterilisation simpler and more acceptable to many people.
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Teams hold employees to high standards, acting as a more acceptable quality control mechanism than evaluations and orders from the top.
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Many patients find it more acceptable if gloves are worn for all venepuncture.
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When a rare disagreement arose, he tried to coax stragglers along or simply found a more acceptable phrasing.
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Once again the change can have nothing to do with making the chapter more acceptable .
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In 20 years or so, Frelich believes, restoration ecology will become far more acceptable among professional foresters.
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Then the authority has to decide for one of the two or more acceptable options.
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In contrast, when tape-slide presentations were used for individual instruction, students found them more acceptable .
most
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To my father it sounded very much like hard work, and that was most acceptable .
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Reconstituted milk is most acceptable when served well chilled.
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This would be the least expensive and most acceptable form of longterm prophylaxis against gall stone recurrence.
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The introduction of change may be most acceptable and often unnoticeable through new media such as video screens.
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A pair of these, with a simple matching scarf in a lovely colour, makes a quick but most acceptable present.
mutually
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The agreement of a mutually acceptable reserve price is key.
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These few basic rules can make your group maximally helpful:-Meet regularly at a mutually acceptable time and place.
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The havens said instead that they wanted multilateral negotiations to achieve a mutually acceptable and beneficial set of standards.
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This commission would be composed of mutually acceptable and appropriate international personalities and representatives from governments and international organizations.
perfectly
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Styles of dress which are perfectly acceptable at home may be offensive to local inhabitants or may be banned altogether.
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But if there is no punishment, it is perfectly acceptable to tell lies.
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However, although words considered in a local context may seem perfectly acceptable in the sentential context these combinations may be unlikely.
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This was perfectly acceptable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; it was not at all acceptable to the court.
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A fair amount is conducted by ministerial correspondence, a perfectly acceptable method in constitutional terms.
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Frozen duck is perfectly acceptable , but-as with most products-fresh is preferred.
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If the seller has left himself negotiating room, then this may be perfectly acceptable .
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Celibacy is perfectly acceptable , although rare.
politically
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In some areas rate levels were already beyond the limits which were regarded as socially and politically acceptable .
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She always chose safe, politically acceptable topics for her films, she says.
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Technically sweet and politically acceptable , it avoids accusation of moral hypocrisy by using economic arguments to appeal to self interest.
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By contrast, solar cells are politically acceptable .
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The limitations of performance evaluation lead to a concern with visible and politically acceptable results.
quite
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This was found unacceptable by 57 percent, quite acceptable by 35 percent and very acceptable by 7 percent.
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In particular, habitats which appear inhospitable at one period may be quite acceptable and considered normal at another.
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But usually you want the goods, so an exchange of goods is normally considered quite acceptable .
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A double-breasted jacket needs no waistcoat, but one is quite acceptable with single-breasted.
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So their green suede jackets with leather collars were quite acceptable .
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After all, it wasn't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside.
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Before the days of audiences counted in millions, it was quite acceptable for artists to imitate other artists.
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Your young daughter's bossy attitude in later life may be channelled into quite acceptable leadership qualities.
socially
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Advertising also creates the impression that smoking is a socially acceptable norm.
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No, there are plenty of healthier and more socially acceptable options.
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The Drugs unit aims to expand pupils' knowledge of drugs so that they appreciate that only some drugs are socially acceptable .
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The socially acceptable reason is usually based on religious or moral beliefs.
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They come from the upper classes and are socially acceptable .
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I knew what is socially acceptable and what is not.
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Both factions needed a socially acceptable spokesman.
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He would, he realized, for the first time in his life have a socially acceptable problem.
very
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This was found unacceptable by 57 percent, quite acceptable by 35 percent and very acceptable by 7 percent.
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Both were ambassadors to Rome for their own cities - that is, they were very acceptable to the governing class of Rome.
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He had a good later reputation, and according to Osbern was very acceptable to Cnut because he had given him holy chrism.
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It took me about ten days to work my way into it, after that I found it very acceptable .
■ NOUN
alternative
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A semicolon following a prompt string is an acceptable alternative to a comma.
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This would serve as an acceptable alternative .
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Balked of Alfred, she would find Harry Washington a more than acceptable alternative .
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Employers have always been able to contract out their workers from the scheme if they offered an acceptable alternative .
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Although purpose-made units are expensive to buy, ordinary hand-microphones attached to simple booms make an acceptable alternative for amateur use.
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Nevertheless, neither the Chronicle nor the Historia Brittonum provides an acceptable alternative to the Bedan chronology.
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In some societies, there are no options, no acceptable alternatives to early marriage.
behaviour
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To summarize, norms define appropriate and acceptable behaviour in specific situations.
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This minefield is compounded by the moral nature of the problem; about what is and is not acceptable behaviour .
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Commonly, both are used consistently to help replace an undesirable behaviour with acceptable behaviour.
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Criminal libel is unlikely to occur other than rarely, but is available to define the limits of acceptable behaviour .
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This sharing of expectations about acceptable behaviour ensures conformity.
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All the evidence suggests that schools are generally well-ordered places where acceptable behaviour is the norm.
compromise
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So averaging two adjacent lines, then using the averaged line twice, is an acceptable compromise .
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A federation can be an acceptable compromise when strong peripheral governments create a central government.
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An often acceptable compromise is local manufacture or assembly by a multinational company.
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The model will be used to explore these energy strategies which might form the basis of acceptable compromises .
face
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Graduated separatism, the acceptable face of separatism, can be seen as the ripples which pass outwards from this.
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NILTs have always been regarded as representing the acceptable face of tribunals.
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But anger has its perfectly acceptable face .
form
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He is able, also, to work on his notes towards a more publicly acceptable form of language.
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Maybe it allowed him to express aggression in an acceptable form .
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All would be aware of the difficulty of finding ideologically acceptable forms of fun.
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Similarly, conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour.
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This would be the least expensive and most acceptable form of longterm prophylaxis against gall stone recurrence.
level
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The teacher will use a wide range of approaches and materials to bring them all up to an acceptable level of performance.
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Fortunately, it is possible to achieve acceptable levels of SO2 by four Simple and relatively inexpensive measures.
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A large quantity of information is needed in order to reduce this uncertainty to an acceptable level .
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In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.
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How do we reach an acceptable level of data security?
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But if there is a significant improvement then the programme can be continued until the problem reaches an acceptable level .
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This brings noise from the busiest roads to an acceptable level .
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Britain prefers absolute standards, which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level .
quality
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Peter Wood's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices.
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Teams hold employees to high standards, acting as a more acceptable quality control mechanism than evaluations and orders from the top.
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To obtain acceptable quality when scanning photographs, at least 64 grey scales are required.
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Internet video broadcasts still are crude but have the potential to one day reach acceptable quality .
solution
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Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt.
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Efficient recycling is the only acceptable solution for Earth and the only key to sustainable life elsewhere in space.
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Fairly obviously, this is not one of those situations where this is an acceptable solution .
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The lack of consensus explains why area politicians have failed to reach an acceptable solution .
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Neither creative nor conventional paths will necessarily lead to an acceptable solution in every case.
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He agreed to go to Rome himself to try to obtain an acceptable solution .
standard
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This study has shown that an acceptable standard of diabetic care can be provided in normal surgery time.
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Students who achieve an acceptable standard may have the opportunity to progress to degree studies.
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Inadequate professional services are services which fall below an acceptable standard , but are short of negligent work.
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Sections which fall below an acceptable standard in terms of quantity, quality of content, or physical condition should receive priority.
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The western section is already at an acceptable standard but the east section is in poor condition, virtually unusable when wet.
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They will also be expected to submit answer books that are of acceptable standard .
way
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How, then, can the informal interview be used in sociology in an acceptable way ?
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Having no acceptable way of expressing their feelings directly, they probably vented them on nature.
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Individuals may see alcohol as an acceptable way out of their problems.
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But they also show that there is wide disagreement about what is considered to be an acceptable way forward.
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Norms defining acceptable ways for settling an argument or dispute usually exclude physical violence and manslaughter.
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One of the more intractable problems was how to dispose of the effluent in an ecologically acceptable way .
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Still, wasn't that also unimportant, although in a less acceptable way ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mutually acceptable/beneficial/convenient etc
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Cleaning symbiosis on the other hand is a true form of mutually beneficial arrangement with both cleaner and host benefiting.
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Community Linking is direct people to people contact which leads to equal, mutually beneficial relationships across cultures.
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It encourages open communication, and learning about processes of living in mutually beneficial ways.
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Obtaining frankness within families about the feelings and expectations they have of each other can be mutually beneficial.
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Some of those diets were the result of a mutually beneficial alliance between physicians and food producers.
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These few basic rules can make your group maximally helpful:-Meet regularly at a mutually acceptable time and place.
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This commission would be composed of mutually acceptable and appropriate international personalities and representatives from governments and international organizations.
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This takes place at a time prearranged to be mutually convenient.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's a cheap and acceptable substitute for rubber.
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Smoking is no longer considered socially acceptable by many people.
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Some low-fat cheeses have quite an acceptable flavour but some taste like rubber.
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The dispute was settled in a way that was acceptable to both sides.
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We had a lot of applicants for the job but only a few of them were acceptable .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Levy-Jennings quality control chart is a graphic representation of the acceptable limits of variation in the results of an analytic method.
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Even this is not always an acceptable defence, I should add.
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He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
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Internet Explorer, the company says, is an acceptable , integrated part of the Windows system.
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There may be sincerely held differences concerning the level of acceptable risk.
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This kind of banter, needless to say, is not acceptable flirting behavior.
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To obtain acceptable quality when scanning photographs, at least 64 grey scales are required.