Example sentences of "convince [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the damp November evenings when the gas lamp flickered in the wind , nothing would convince me that danger was n't lurking in the eerie shadows . |
| 2 | But my experiences in Guatemala , where the government has murdered tens of thousands for taking the tiniest steps towards development , have convinced me that non-violence does not always work , and that it is arrogant and dangerous to insist on such methods . |
| 3 | This trip up country has been most valuable , and has convinced me that reconstruction must be our theme more than politics . |
| 4 | Congregationalists must convince their fellow Englishmen that they were ‘ fully up to the spirit of the age ’ . |
| 5 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 6 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 7 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 8 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 9 | He said that a recent report in New Scientist that the Turin lead experiment had been censored , coupled with the conversion of several eminent scientists to the anti-lead cause had convinced him that action was urgent . |
| 10 | When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand |
| 11 | That had taken me a little time , partly as I was still sleepy , partly as I had so convinced myself Old Red had reported me . |
| 12 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |
| 13 | Instead , the National Consumer Council 's previous work on consumer aid and advice convinces us that advice about money and credit problems — just like other types of advice — is best available as part of a general advice service , from non-specialist advice bureaux such as CABx . |
| 14 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 15 | His view seems to be undeniable in this situation , and it serves to convince me that ageism will never be tackled unless recognition of the problem is followed by the introduction of positive measures . |
| 16 | And we 're constantly trying to convince ourselves that fat does n't matter ! |
| 17 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 18 | What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear . |
| 19 | ‘ If a military posture is demonstrably defensive the hawks in the neighbouring system will find it harder to convince their own establishment that they need new weapons for self protection ’ . |
| 20 | The first task that faced the Government after the publication of Sandys ' White Paper of 1957 was to convince its European allies , the United States , and the Commonwealth , that nuclear weapons were a valid substitute for manpower , and that the proposed reductions in British forces deployed overseas would not increase world instability . |
| 21 | He had to struggle to convince himself that Cutter 's heroic stature was not a tiny bit reduced by this peculiar name . |
| 22 | I have tried to convince you that problem solving is important and that it can be taught and learned by means of guided problem solving . |
| 23 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 24 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 25 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 26 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
| 27 | The growth of the industrial proletariat convinced him that state education for all was essential , though in 1809 he asked : ‘ What can you expect of national education conducted by a government which for twenty years resisted the abolition of the Slave Trade ? ’ |
| 28 | He would claim that it was the sentence which changed his life , convinced him that acting was worth doing . |
| 29 | Miss Lamb 's own inquiries convinced her that exploitation does go on in homes in the Teesside area . |
| 30 | The fixed menu idea came from Michael Vaughan , who finally convinced his reluctant wife to stop offering a choice of four dishes at every dinner two years ago . |