Example sentences of "convinced that [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galton had become convinced that Lamarckism was ineffective because the character of each individual is rigidly determined by inheritance . |
| 2 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 3 | But her experiences on Eldorado have left her convinced that bureaucracy is in danger of ruining the final on-screen product . |
| 4 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 5 | While your issue on Population ( NI 176 ) led me to adjust my thinking , I remain convinced that overpopulation is the Third World 's worst problem . |
| 6 | After the driving programme last week , several fleet executives appeared convinced that diesel is the right road for them to pursue . |
| 7 | Pareto was more convinced that authority is simply a matter of fraud rather than self-justification by the elite . |
| 8 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |