Example sentences of "convinced that [noun sg] " 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 | In 1923 he began to study economic theory and became convinced that government objectives , far from ensuring a return to prosperity , were actively discouraging it through deflationary policies and obsession with the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity . |
| 4 | Personally , I respect his view and at the same time am glad of his enthusiasm for church planting : ‘ I am convinced that Church Planting is a mark of vigorous and outgoing Christianity and is a sign of hope for the future ’ , he says . |
| 5 | Liberal politicians led by Gladstone remained convinced that state action posed a danger to individual freedom , and would rarely assist economic growth or social or moral improvement . |
| 6 | But her experiences on Eldorado have left her convinced that bureaucracy is in danger of ruining the final on-screen product . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I 'm quite convinced that society could be run without money and every one of us would actually become far better off — not economically , of course , but emotionally and culturally . |
| 9 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
| 10 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Otherwise , I am convinced that bus services in Scotland will continue to deteriorate . |
| 13 | After the driving programme last week , several fleet executives appeared convinced that diesel is the right road for them to pursue . |
| 14 | Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 . |
| 15 | Pareto was more convinced that authority is simply a matter of fraud rather than self-justification by the elite . |
| 16 | Convinced that niche marketing was the right approach to follow , they decided to build on their experience in audit , accounting and tax for companies with turnovers of £1m to £30m ; investigative work for institutions that have invested , or are thinking of investing , in such companies ; and general litigation support . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |