The phrase "accepted as a guide to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is recognized or acknowledged as a reference or standard for a particular purpose.
Example: "The manual is accepted as a guide to best practices in the industry."
Alternatives: "recognized as a reference for" or "regarded as a standard for".
If the code of conduct a society puts forward is not accepted as a guide to behavior by the members of that society, which of these two features should be taken as essential?
When "morality" is used in its universal normative sense, it need not have either of the two formal features that are essential to moralities referred to by the original descriptive sense: that it be a code of conduct that is put forward by a society and that it be accepted as a guide to behavior by the members of that society.
The apprehensions figure is widely accepted as a rough guide to the number of immigrants crossing illegally.
Accepting the difference principle as a standard for institutional arrangements is not tantamount to accepting the difference principle as a guide to one's personal life.
Although the use of BMI has limitations, because it does not distinguish between fat and lean mass nor does it adjust for age or sex, it is generally accepted as a reasonable guide for clinical and epidemiologic purposes [ 23].
Boethius, however, although making occasional use of later commentaries, usually followed Porphyry: on the Categories he stayed close to Porphyry's surviving (and quite simple) question-and-answer commentary, whilst the long, second commentary on On Interpretation is commonly accepted as the best guide to Porphyry's exegesis, since his own commentary does not survive.
But the small minority was finally accepted as the necessary guide to the future.
Advocates tend to treat truthmaker theory primarily as a guide to ontology, asking: To entities of what ontological categories are we committed as truthmakers of the propositions we accept as true?
Use the orange felt face as a guide to proportions.
Resistance testing is increasingly accepted as a tool in guiding the selection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected individuals who fail their current regimen.
Currently, the Health Promoting School (HPS) concept [ 13] is accepted as a theory that guides school health promotion practice internationally [ 14, 15].
