Sentence examples for had been accepting from inspiring English sources

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had been accepted

had begun accepting

had been accommodating

had been receptive

had been take

"had been accepting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is the past perfect continuous tense of the verb "accept." You can use "had been accepting" to describe an action or state that started in the past and continued up until another point in the past. For example: - "The company had been accepting applications for the position, but they finally found the perfect candidate." - "She had been accepting her husband's behavior for years, but finally decided to leave him." - "The students had been accepting donations for the charity event all week, and they were thrilled to see the final amount raised." In these examples, the action of accepting started in the past and continued up until a specific point in the past (finding a candidate, leaving her husband, the end of the week).

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She said her biggest problem since her divorce had been accepting her single-parent status.

The New York Times

Across the board, the coaches insisted that Sam's team-mates had been accepting of his sexuality.

The Guardian - Sport

She confided in a girl friend that she had felt this way when she was 16 and said she had been accepting of these feelings.

The Telegraph

Part of that understanding, she said, had been accepting that the changes had already begun — and are happening faster than many experts had predicted several years ago.

The New York Times

Government investigations revealed that financial aid officers had been accepting kickbacks, junkets and even stock options in return for steering students to certain lenders.

The New York Times

The company said it had been accepting low level radioactive waste from BNFL for many years under a special licence from the environment agency.

The Guardian

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I had been accepted to Princeton.

Princeton University

She had been accepted for a Harvard MBA.

The Guardian

"She had been accepted after all".

The New York Times

She had been accepted to college, and gotten a scholarship.

The New York Times

The defendant's own son had been accepted at Yale.

The New Yorker

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had been tolerant

had been accepted

had recommended accepting

had acknowledged accepting

had started accepting

had admitted accepting

had resisted accepting

had stopped accepting

had considered accepting

had been soaring

had been crying

had been spying

had been waiting

had been bicycling

had proposed accepting

had been agreed

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