The phrase "acknowledges were" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a fragment that lacks proper context or structure, making it unusable as it stands.
Example: "The report acknowledges were there were discrepancies in the data." (This example still needs correction for clarity.)
Alternatives: "recognizes that" or "confirms that".
His motives, he acknowledges, were not purely altruistic.
Marketing and advertising, he acknowledges, were "invented and developed by Americans", so Publicis has to approach the business with "humility".
The songs, which Mr. Farley acknowledges were musically weak, were often performed at parties and, for a time, he and Mr. Flemming considered creating a song cycle.
The total charges, according to a receipt he posted, were $1,171.The charges-per-megabyte, Mr Gutsche acknowledges, were disclosed at the outset.
His assignment of reviving NBC's long-troubled fortunes in prime time has proved heavier lifting than Mr. Silverman anticipated, thanks to a combination of external factors — like a writers' strike and a battered economy — and internal factors, including some gossip-stoking incidents in his personal life and a few comments about others that he now acknowledges were ill-advised.
It is likely that some of the faulty assumptions that Mr. Hadley now acknowledges were behind the American invasion and occupation of Iraq — that Mr. Hussein's loyalists could be eliminated from the top of every government institution and the country would keep functioning, or the disastrous consequences of the disbanding of the Iraqi military — were on Mr. Obama's mind at the time.
This idea, she acknowledges, is not new.
But the fripperies, he acknowledges, are important.
Their power, as Raptor acknowledges, is in their eyes.
Erdogan, Rohde rightly acknowledges, is no paragon of liberal democracy.
"That part," Reilly acknowledges, "is based on us".
