Example sentences of "convinced [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 2 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 3 | ‘ meticulous experiments have convinced me that this ratio ( 1:100 ) between the quantity of diluent and that of the medicine being dynamized is far too low to develop the medicinal substance properly and to a high degree with a large number of succussions unless force is used … |
| 4 | The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp . |
| 5 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 6 | I believe this situation is self-explanatory , so I wo n't bother you with details ; suffice it to say that the best engineers in Germany have convinced me that the weakest point in this chain is your body . |
| 7 | Yeah , Wendy 's convinced me that , that if you 're a power user , which she is |
| 8 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |
| 9 | It was n't just Sunil who had convinced me that the rest of the week would be better spent out of town . |
| 10 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 11 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 12 | In their book , Leytonstone would therefore be real bandit country and Romford , once you 'd convinced them that it was n't actually off the edge of the map , was probably the Twilight Zone . |
| 13 | To take the initiative yourself , however is often too difficult : your mind may have convinced you that your confusion is so much greater than other people 's , your backlog of work so much longer , your reputation so much lower , that to open yourself to the social confirmation of these frightful facts would be a pointless and self-sacrificing thing to do . |
| 14 | If the test has convinced you that you are weak on spelling , a useful reference book is Cassell 's New Spelling Dictionary ( £1.95 ) . |
| 15 | Can your client live without an income , they 've just convinced you that they ca n't , they now want to know about this Health Master . |
| 16 | And surely her ministers have convinced her that tap water really is safe and wholesome to drink . |
| 17 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 18 | As an adult , this woman came to understand that the fairy tale had helped her greatly in throwing off her dependence on her brother , as it had convinced her that an early dependence on him need not interfere with her later ascendancy . |
| 19 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 20 | Formal education was shelved , which was a relief , because the unctuous kind of diligence expected of her at school had convinced her that she was both stupid and sinful . |
| 21 | A sleepless night had convinced her that in the event of Thomas 's death her role was forlorn fiancée . |
| 22 | Inter-collegiate golf had convinced her that , eventually , her future was on the L.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 23 | Her talk with Eddie had convinced her that he was telling the truth about his relationship with Angy and that Rodney Shergold was the ‘ poor sap ’ who had fallen an eager and tiresome victim to her charms . |
| 24 | They had convinced him that no radical change in Defence policy would be negotiable unless the Minister of Defence was given greater powers to override the special pleading of the Admiralty , the War Office , the Air Ministry , and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 25 | Mr Slade 's extensive breeding programme within his flock of 400 pedigree ewes has convinced him that terminal sires do not have to be ‘ big and long ’ . |
| 26 | The ‘ photograph ’ of the burial mound in his mind 's eye , still so sharp and detailed , had convinced him that therein lay something of importance . |
| 27 | His ride against her when beaten half a length on Bachelor 's Button in the previous season 's Jockey Club Cup had convinced him that her stamina was flawed . |
| 28 | She is alleged to have convinced him that she was his mother and then forced him to have sex with her . |
| 29 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 30 | CD 's fourth novel , and the first of the two serialized in his weekly periodical , Master Humphrey 's Clock , 1840–1 , after an early drop in sales had convinced him that the magazine could not succeed as a miscellany . |