Example sentences of "insisted that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British insisted that it be worked by British operators — reluctantly agreed to — and it finally entered Australia in the Northern Territories . |
| 2 | But John Evans , for the national executive , insisted that it was unreasonable to tie the party to a strict timetable since scientists and technologists did not yet agree on how nuclear plants could be decommissioned safely . |
| 3 | He insisted that it was a precautionary ‘ belt and braces ’ measure for tougher times ahead . |
| 4 | He insisted that it was not the end for Berbizier and company , only a rest . |
| 5 | Far from perceiving social work as too adversarial , they insisted that it remained too bland , welfarist and optimistic in its assumptions and operational strategies with potentially abusive parents . |
| 6 | The vicar insisted that it would mean wearing the uniform his people would recognise , and that included the surplice . |
| 7 | She insisted that it would have to be a high predicted major tide . |
| 8 | Some men insisted that it was not possible to make your first jump without voiding your bowels . |
| 9 | This could have been an argument for the theory of the mechanical origin of the sound in the days when some still insisted that it was vocal . |
| 10 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 11 | Owners Abroad , which runs Enterprise , Falcon , Martyn and SunMed , insisted that it was not following Thomson , and had been planning its own big reductions . |
| 12 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 13 | Writing at the same time as Russell appealed to President Wilson , MacDonald insisted that it was disarmament , democracy and international socialism that provided the key to stable peace : ‘ Then we shall want no League of Nations to Enforce Peace , with its dangers and surrenders to militarism . ’ |
| 14 | One notable absentee at the party was IBM Corp , but the company insisted that it had put out a release — it simply failed to get to us by close of page . |
| 15 | The magistrate refused to allow the UK accredited representative to take the recording to London for read-out and insisted that it could be done in Italy . |
| 16 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 17 | In December 1947 , for example , when they had agreed a memorandum on Area Board organisation , Randall , the London Board chairman , insisted that it should be a purely advisory document not binding on the areas ; and some degree of variation in local organisation did in fact emerge . |
| 18 | The Council , on the contrary , when speaking about the Church as body of Christ , insisted that it is the Eucharistic body which forms the ecclesial body and twice quoted 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 19 | It also insisted that it was the lead partner working on multi-processing technology using IBM 's Power RISC chip , and that IBM would more than likely OEM the Bull work for future versions of its own RS/6000s . |
| 20 | The blurred sense of catastrophe usually insisted that it was both . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Health insisted that it was not the business of maternity centres to offer family-planning advice , and the new Labour government in 1924 specifically forbade welfare centres from disseminating it . |
| 22 | How , for example , do we deal with that late nineteenth-century evolutionist Henry Drummond , who insisted that it was wrong to speak of reconciling Christianity with evolution since the two were one ? |
| 23 | Sukarno insisted that it had to go on ‘ with united forces and tireless energy ’ . |
| 24 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 25 | Eugenists insisted that it was crucial to redefine the terrain of social intervention . |
| 26 | In biology , Richard Owen — who had led the conservative assault on Lamarckism in the 1830s — now accepted evolution , but insisted that it worked by a preordained process of ‘ derivation ’ . |
| 27 | Stubbornly , we insisted that it did . |
| 28 | But Khomeini again insisted that it was all being done for foreign enemies of the Jews , America and Israel , we must be nailed and killed ; we must be sacrificed to the evil intentions of foreigners " |
| 29 | He insisted that it be a shoemaker and the ; prostitute be male . |
| 30 | He — insisted that it be used , even afterwards . |