Sentence examples for acceptable were from inspiring English sources

The phrase "acceptable were" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a condition or situation where something is deemed acceptable, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The terms of the agreement were acceptable, were they not?"
Alternatives: "were acceptable" or "considered acceptable".

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In its response, the corporation said rules on behaviour were increasingly being written into contracts with stars, and attitudes towards what was acceptable were changing.

If the only tweets that were judged acceptable were anodyne ones, then the value of Twitter as a public service would be greatly diminished.

If either of the candidates whom the leaders in Beijing judged acceptable were to win those polls by a wide margin, the electors might line up behind him.

More acceptable were Aḥmad's steps to integrate Arabic-speaking naTunisianssians fully into the government, which had long been dominated by mamlūks (military slaves) and Turks.

That would be acceptable were it not for one question: can the Government assume that global growth will continue for five years?

The resulting products, while acceptable, were far from mainstream.

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How acceptable are these sources?

"Acceptable is zero," he said.

The word "acceptable" is interesting here.

What's acceptable and what's not acceptable is basically what's going to hurt somebody.

Less acceptable was his proclivity to noise.

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