Sentence examples for it might be acceptable from inspiring English sources

It might be acceptable if the system's operations were thriving.

"I can recognize why it might be acceptable in the U.K.," he said.

The last Conservative prime minister, Sir John Major, said it might be acceptable to give the Liberal Democrats some cabinet seats.

One viewer phoned the show to say that he thought it was selfish for gay men to use these technologies because their children might be bullied at school, that it might be acceptable in the future but not now.

Our inquisitor, by turns cantankerous and plaintive, mourns the decline of butter churns and wonders under what circumstances — impending death, perhaps — it might be acceptable to molest a candy striper.

That means that even if it might be acceptable to expel a family from the country, it should be done in a way that does not interrupt the school day.

Tyrie makes a similar point: "Having been given all these powers, the Bank is now grasping that if it strays too far from what might be acceptable to the government, it could be uncomfortable.

Early during the sound system conversion process, it became apparent that what might be acceptable in New York would not be so in Kansas.

At another level, the spectral impalpability of so-called high finance is allowed to become ever more impenetrable and autonomous, which might be acceptable were it not for the real effects that are now manifest.

This expensive and time consuming process might be acceptable if it sorted the information effectively, with the most important studies being in the most important journals.

So I can't, of course, say it's impossible that any elected element might be acceptable to the House of Commons.