Example sentences of "[pers pn] insists on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she insists on dabbling in nuggets of ‘ culture ’ , I must remark that there is only one swan in her chosen Sibelius tone poem , and it is Dr Jekyll who turns into Mr Hyde . |
| 2 | She insists on a dignity which has nothing to do with appearances . |
| 3 | Despite her success , she insists on being down-to-earth and believes she has an obligation to give a little back to the sport which shot her to fame . |
| 4 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 5 | Then she insists on showing me a toy that ‘ goes off pop ! ’ |
| 6 | If she insists on informing the police , so be it . |
| 7 | But Madeleine wo n't let me wake her up , she insists on waiting until she goes back to bed of her own accord . |
| 8 | She insists on looking after the hens herself . |
| 9 | She insists on it , ’ he said flatly . |
| 10 | When she insists on pursuing the case against the onlookers , her boss first ridicules her , then revealingly loses his temper , telling her she 's finished — win or lose . |
| 11 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 13 | While Zulfikar Ghose 's textual playfulness can be vexatious , even baffling , it insists on the partial , unreliable nature of memory itself , or , as Urim puts it , ‘ the enormous accumulation of fragments , lik images in a shattered mirror , which constituted my life ’ . |
| 14 | He attacks oralism as an additional depriving agent since it insists on having no further stimulation other than speech , when it is the language stimulation which is most important not the modality of stimulation . |
| 15 | The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ . |
| 16 | The BBC does n't deserve our support if it insists on betraying Selina Scott and promoting the less charming Esther Rantzen |
| 17 | Apart from the fact that a possible-worlds approach inevitably runs into problems if it insists on the logical completeness of fictional universes , it seems to me that what is a valid issue in logic does not necessarily have to be a valid issue in poetics and narratology . |
| 18 | The point is important for , when he turns to personal identity , he insists on a distinction between two ideas which ‘ the ordinary way of speaking ’ runs together : the idea of ‘ man ’ , and the idea of ‘ person ’ . |
| 19 | However , he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision . |
| 20 | This may be enough to make him lose interest but , if he persists , discourage him briefly and matter-of-factly , explaining that such words show bad manners and offend some people , who will like him less if he insists on using them . |
| 21 | Though he does not wear white overalls and wander about with a paint brush in his hand , he insists on calling himself a decorator ( Manhattan-English for interior designer ) . |
| 22 | He insists on seeing you . ’ |
| 23 | He 's in New York , you know , though he insists on staying with a friend in that dreadful apartment over on the West side . |
| 24 | If he insists on calling back , ask him to hold on , and then play a blaring radio down the receiver — that should put him off for a few days . |
| 25 | His favourite food is Jamaican , especially fish dishes , and he insists on cooking it himself . |
| 26 | He insists on this : ( A433 ) ‘ For the ENGLISH are the seed of Abraham ’ ; ( B225 ) ‘ St. Paul is the Agent for England ’ . |
| 27 | He insists on a quick hug from his young son Jordi who accompanies him to some of the major events where Courier plays . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself . |
| 29 | He is a bit younger , of course , and probably thinks I 'm an old fuddy-duddy , as well as avuncular ( as he insists on reminding the viewers most evenings ) . |
| 30 | He insists on personal attention every time , no matter how trivial the issue . |