Example sentences of "is adamant that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Abbell is adamant that he is doing nothing untoward . |
| 2 | The Confederation of British Industry also wants hacking outlawed , but the Data Protection Registrar is adamant that hacking per se should not be a crime . |
| 3 | He is adamant that any open manifestation of religious or cultural identity at school goes against the principles of secular state education . |
| 4 | This may partly explains why the West German centre-right Conservative led government is adamant that there can be no further move to supra-national European Union that is not accompanied by a demonstrable system of Parliamentary accountability . |
| 5 | She is adamant that she will not tour until she feels she is ready . |
| 6 | Expo 's commissioner general , Emilio Cassinello , is adamant that all will be finished by next week . |
| 7 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 8 | The new minister admits that all this could take eight to ten years and an improved economic climate but he is adamant that attitudes must change . |
| 9 | But be careful if your man is adamant that he never wants children ( unless , of course , you do n't either ) . |
| 10 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 11 | Norman Jay , at Phonogram 's Talkin' Loud , is adamant that sending tapes willy-nilly is a loser 's game . |
| 12 | He is adamant that he will not be tempted back to play rugby . |
| 13 | But Mr Onanuga is adamant that he sold Mr Lamont three bottles of Australian wine and two packets of Hamlet cigars for a total of Pounds 18.37 on a Gold Access card . |
| 14 | ‘ The present offer is an absolute insult , but Lennox is getting worried and he is adamant that he wants to fight Bowe . |
| 15 | Maloney said : ‘ The present offer is an absolute insult , but Lennox is getting worried and he is adamant that he wants to fight Bowe . |
| 16 | FRS 3 will also effectively kill off extraordinary items — the ASB is adamant that any geographical or political event happening within a company 's environment should be counted as part of normal business risk — and reduce what ASB chairman David Tweedie has seen as the abuse of earnings per share . |
| 17 | Now signed to Sony for an eight-album deal , Jamiroquai is adamant that he will not be called upon to compromise his musical philosophies , relishing the fact that the lengthy deal will enable him to take his experimental visions further . |
| 18 | At PIL , currently dealing with Blundstone , Terra , Royer and Hard Yakka and now looking for more names , co-director Peter Caplow is adamant that things are still in their infancy . |
| 19 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
| 20 | Like Walker , Gould is adamant that his team 's form is n't just a flash in the pan . |
| 21 | Strangely enough for a coach who has tall trees like John Eales , Troy Coker , Rod McCall , Warwick Waugh and Steve Cutler at his disposal , Bob Dwyer is adamant that the new line-out law will change the game for the better . |
| 22 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 23 | The door is adamant that it will not allow anyone inside , other than the Master . |
| 24 | It does not contribute to the definition of a class — for he is adamant that the class positions adopted by particular groups are not indicative of their true class membership . |
| 25 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 26 | The two-stage compiler raises the intriguing possibility of gaining a direct C interface into Pick , but the company is adamant that the use of C rather than Flash Basic would be not only difficult , but also really naughty : ‘ that is not the intention ’ said one company official , adding ‘ we only mention the C interim step so that people can understand what is going on ’ — at least until , version 6.1 — of which , more later . |
| 27 | Wilkie is adamant that there is ‘ little substance in the 12 months to live ’ perception and there are no set percentages of outside sales that he has to meet to ensure survival . |
| 28 | The Salinas government is adamant that a large devaluation would be both damaging and unnecessary . |
| 29 | But having written TCP/IP and NFS functionality into NT , it is adamant that it 'll develop a Windows application programming interface for SVR4 with or without USL 's help . |
| 30 | ‘ Neil is adamant that if Terry goes , he wants to go , ’ she said . |