Example sentences of "to admit [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 2 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 3 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
| 4 | Freudians , like Marxists , can not step outside their own forms of thought to admit that they might be wrong ( unless , like Crews , they undergo a deconversion ) . |
| 5 | Even today Lebanon 's Christian leadership is unwilling to admit that Lebanon has an ‘ Arab identity ’ , although the people of Beirut , Tripoli and Baalbek joined the rising . |
| 6 | Let's have the courage to admit that there is no betrayal in providing the next Labour government with the scope to give Britain a leading role in a movement to a non-nuclear Europe , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 8 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 9 | Nor is it fashionable to admit that even monsters have their uses . |
| 10 | Jackson is the first to admit that the numbers of people having a thing about some of the later material have taken a dip . |
| 11 | The policy was working and inflation was falling , but Mr Lawson said he had to admit that it was ‘ proving a slow process ’ . |
| 12 | Even David Owen was later to admit that they should have been scrapped during his time at the Foreign Office in 1 977–9 . |
| 13 | But Paul did n't like to admit that this was the reason he did n't want to give up his day job . |
| 14 | I am ashamed to admit that I scored 11 and Martin Swartz scored 17 . |
| 15 | She had to admit that she found swimming ‘ a bit boring really ’ but there was the possibility of shared recreation . |
| 16 | The only journalist to put Mrs Thatcher on the spot during the Falklands War is happy to admit that she loves housework . |
| 17 | After lunch , Madame Edith Cresson , Mr Mitterrand 's French Source , was pounced upon by the Broadcasting Bill 's finest and made to admit that La Dame de Fer had said something positive . |
| 18 | Nobody likes to admit that they entertain very little , or that they rarely enjoy it when they do . |
| 19 | He had to admit that this particular client hardly added to the general decorative smartness of the place . |
| 20 | A shame-faced Camilo Luzuriaga , the film 's director , had to admit that he and his crew lacked the technical know-how to fake a death . |
| 21 | Yet it may not be enough to satisfy the many officers who refuse to admit that the army was guilty . |
| 22 | The last resort of the habitual pessimists is to admit that Hungary 's opportunities are great , but that the government is bound to muff them . |
| 23 | Israel , justifiably proud of its military prowess , has had to admit that it has nothing special to offer . |
| 24 | Greenidge was happy to admit that playing alongside the South African was ‘ an education and an inspiration ’ , but he also conceded that while they both had many outstanding days individually they did not score as many runs in partnership as they might have done , since they were both attacking players and therefore risk-takers . |
| 25 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 26 | I regret that he resigned in 1986 but I have to admit that he had a point . |
| 27 | But then slowly , unwillingly , she had to admit that he was cold and conventional , and his lovemaking was nasty , brutish and short . |
| 28 | She analysed her feelings and had to admit that she feared there was a danger of his leaving . |
| 29 | Even Americans round the table , who did n't give him a snowball in hell 's chance of getting approval to his plan , had to admit that he was still in there , fighting like a demon for a lost cause . |
| 30 | They would have been reluctant to admit that the human mind , confronted with the mysteries of life and death , has found some common ground in all cultures and in all known periods of history . |