Example sentences of "more convinced that " in BNC.

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1 Probably I would be more convinced that Tromsø , with its snug wooden houses , its thick air-spaced double glazing , its heating systems , its hot water from the tap , its colour televisions and supermarkets , was not just a retreat from reality .
2 However , as month after month went by , I became more and more convinced that the real problem with the health service was a lack of management .
3 I came away even more convinced that some sort of residential centre , based in the Highlands is of fundamental importance .
4 Burrows became more and more convinced that he had the right man .
5 Vic becomes even more convinced that this was the motive for the call as it proceeds , because Stuart Baxter has nothing new to communicate .
6 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
7 By ten past nine , both boys were becoming more and more convinced that no one was going to arrive .
8 But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age .
9 ‘ And it 's now made Jamie even more convinced that he can be one of the best .
10 Pareto was more convinced that authority is simply a matter of fraud rather than self-justification by the elite .
11 As the days had gone by and there had been no sign of her , Kraal had become more and more convinced that Creggan 's belief in her return was hopeless and that Minch was gone for ever .
12 He commented aloud , with a delighted laugh , ‘ You know , I 'm more and more convinced that the illustrious Don , the genial thinker , was n't taking a revenge on his family , or plotting the downfall of the house of Beatillo , or shaking the structure of property and power in these parts , or thumbing his nose at you-know-who .
13 Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ?
14 But as he walked , he became more and more convinced that he would also have to tell him about Surere .
15 As the negotiations proceeded , Owen became more and more convinced that this was so .
16 in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share .
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