Example sentences of "[unc] insistence that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to try and comply with the Sports Council 's insistence that we need to shorten our teacher training , the new students will follow a more intensive programme , scheduled on more frequent training days , to be known as Course II . |
| 2 | Still , Huy had answered Surere 's summons , had even given in to the messenger 's insistence that they travel in the closed rickshaw , so that he would not be able to tell where they were going . |
| 3 | She took over the phone in a vain attempt to replace Dana , only to admit defeat late on Thursday evening when she was forced , reluctantly , to agree to Myra 's insistence that she wear the wedding gown herself . |
| 4 | These have been the Saturn years — during which that planet 's insistence that you measure up to your potential has placed hurdles of all sorts in your way . |
| 5 | The ANC also firmly rejected the government 's insistence that it disband its armed wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe ( MK ) , before a full transitional government was in place . |
| 6 | I was forced to put Micky Deere between the posts and the referee 's insistence that he remove his bi-focals meant he was two fathoms below useless . |
| 7 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |