Example sentences of "to persuade [noun pl] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 2 | Any attempts to persuade farmers of the necessity of environmental conservation must take all these factors into account . |
| 3 | It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them , seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths . |
| 4 | The trial is so entangled with the standing of the ANC that the right-wing Conservative Party has blamed the ‘ state intelligence service ’ for the disappearance of an important state witness ; the party 's argument was that the government wanted to persuade whites of the virtue of negotiations with the ANC , and found the trial embarrassing . |
| 5 | It is difficult to persuade overworkers of the importance of rest and recreation . |
| 6 | As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms . |
| 7 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |