The phrase "acceptable to be a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing whether something meets certain standards or criteria for a specific role or situation.
Example: "In our organization, it is acceptable to be a flexible worker who adapts to changing circumstances."
Alternatives: "permissible to be a" or "suitable to be a".
"When I started, it wasn't really acceptable to be a woman in the water," Beachley said.
It was acceptable to be a large goat (cabrón) or even, on occasion, a pubic hair (pendejo), but to be a strawberry was unforgiveable.
Eleanor Roosevelt, he said, had a tattoo, a rose on her arm marked F.D.R. "It's acceptable to be a model with a tattoo today," he said.
When it is no longer socially acceptable to be a housewife — or homemaker, in modern American parlance — has feminism overshot its objective?
The response to Germaine Greer in recent years can be summed up as: "Shut up". Is it no longer acceptable to be a woman and a noisy, loquacious pain in the arse?
Dan Savage's observation that it is socially acceptable to be a homophobe, but not a racist (Op-Ed, April 25) brought to mind a prophetic statement by Bayard Rustin, who battled both racism and homophobia in his 60-year career as an activist and organizer.
"It's acceptable to be an actor with a tattoo today.
Obama made it acceptable to be an American in Europe for eight years.
You build yourself up expecting drama, and then it's fine – although it's definitely more socially acceptable to be an open bi woman than a bi man.
"I think it has made it more acceptable to be an entrepreneur and it has encouraged people to be brave and to take risks," she says.
Or do I need to be getting the microphone to people who haven't had a chance to speak yet?" I came out long before it was fashionable or even acceptable to be an LGBT ally in the church.
