Example sentences of "and insist on " in BNC.
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| 1 | See a computer dealer for more advice and insist on seeing a demonstration before you buy . |
| 2 | Mr Gould promised the party would restore ‘ the great utilities ’ to public ownership and insist on higher standards of regulation than those which had prevailed under the Conservatives . |
| 3 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |
| 4 | Varies : much as for The Rational if you have the binge in your own home and do n't serve champagne ; but can go through the roof if you hire a restaurant and insist on Moet all the way through . |
| 5 | Follow up leads and insist on answers ? |
| 6 | If you can find a Porsche centre able to demonstrate an RS to you , put some time aside and insist on an experienced specialist . |
| 7 | If we press this and insist on doubting what the humanist holds as indubitable , we uncover a hornet 's nest of assumptions and presuppositions which are far from being rationally indubitable . |
| 8 | He stressed that community ethics must question a system that marginalises people by monopolising information and communication systems and insist on radical changes in society 's communication structures . |
| 9 | Nor to that of Wally Swift Jun. whose father , a former British welterweight and middleweight boxing champion , would meticulously plan and implement training programmes at Birmingham City ABC and insist on taking charge of his corner in competitions . |
| 10 | WACC is equally grateful to all those women who keep up the pressure and insist on equal opportunities for women and men . |
| 11 | Others would go further , and insist on more rigorous methods . |
| 12 | Members of a trade regularly brought together in workplace or community could acknowledge regular leaders and develop and insist on customary work practices without embedding any of this in formal regulations and procedures . |
| 13 | In quite a lot of professional academic writing , the various systems are mixed together , despite the fact that most journals seek to adopt a consistent policy and insist on receiving manuscripts which follow a specified system . |
| 14 | In the afternoon he starts by sleeping , then takes over the kitchen and insists on preparing extravagant five-course meals . |
| 15 | She wears big dark glasses and insists on sitting with her back to the throng , coincidentally facing the mirror . |
| 16 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 17 | The King makes all the rules , appoints and dismisses Prime Ministers , and insists on marshmallows and cocoa for breakfast , while his subjects get only dry toast . |
| 18 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 19 | ‘ Where a defendant in a civil action relies on the doctrine against self-incrimination and insists on remaining silent and on concealing documents and other evidence relevant to the action , he is relying on his own wrongdoing or on his own apparent or possible wrongdoing to hamper the plaintiff in proof of his just claims in the suit . |
| 20 | This contrasts greatly with another professional publication that I receive which is stodgy and insists on corresponding via an employer 's address . |
| 21 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 22 | In this film , the central character is a spirited young woman who defies conventions and insists on playing the heroic male roles of the Chinese opera , aided by the spirit of the legendary Zhong Kui whom she incarnates on stage . |
| 23 | Let us announce to all that Welsh in this county lives and insists on achieving its proper place in the order of things . ’ |
| 24 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 25 | Some people used to call and insist on taking one away before she was really ready to sell it . |
| 26 | The only safe policy is to have oxygen equipment available and to insist on its use for any attempts at Gold or Diamond Heights . |
| 27 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 28 | We see why Marx felt it important to attack Smith 's generalised conception of the division of labour , and to insist on the different conditions governing the division of labour between and within commodity producing enterprises . |
| 29 | What is absent from these accounts is a structural analysis of the political and administrative conditions which enabled the profession to reassert its position , and to insist on increased representation within the state . |
| 30 | Thus , in December 1983 it was made very clear that other unions would not encourage the small National Graphical Association when it defied the law over Eddie Shah 's nonunion printing operations in Warrington and insisted on conducting a strike deemed by the high court to be illegal . |