Sentence examples for before it is acceptable from inspiring English sources

How much would you have to gain on winning in order for this gamble to be acceptable to you?" People want more than $20 before it is acceptable.

The enormously complex PPP for the London Underground has taken four years even to approach the starting blocks, and still needs major redesign before it is acceptable; four years of appalling travel conditions that could have been avoided.

There are a number of major and minor issues that need to be addressed or considered before it is acceptable for publication in eLife.

The combined consensus view is that in principle this is suitable for eLife but there are a number of major and minor issues that need to be addressed or considered before it is acceptable for publication in eLife.

The assay, however, needs to be verified using a large number of clinical specimens from a large number of patients, with reference to the current diagnostic standard, before it is acceptable to introduce this new test to routine care.

Clean where Sonic Youth are smudged, acoustic more often than not, and brazenly unhip years before it was acceptable, the Feelies were only a superficially milder band.

The story, briefly, was this: in the early Sixties, according to Scott's claims, he and Thorpe had a physical relationship, years before homosexuality was legal, and decades before it was acceptable for a politician.

He was a vegetarian; he spoke Esperanto; he practiced calligraphy; he embraced non-Western music, especially the Javanese gamelan; he was openly gay long before it was acceptable, or even safe.

It also came at the stage where I had a small child and I was struggling with how to find proper childminding, combine a career, and before it was acceptable for women to work.

The narrator, who is gay, has a particularly sad memory of a young man he loved during the Second World War, before it was acceptable to his family and milieu.

I asked Motherboard's resident Italian and Italian-food expert Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai whether the common American practice of breaking spaghetti in half before cooking it is acceptable in his culture.