Example sentences of "persuade [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 2 | It would be comforting to persuade ourselves that those people who are generating wealth by creating poverty are all fly-by-night operators with little regard for the basic niceties of the employer/employee relationship . |
| 3 | It is sufficient to say that the majority view appears to be in line with that which I have formed in the light of the British authorities , and that the dissenting opinion of Wilson J. does not persuade me that that view is wrong . |
| 4 | It should not persuade us that this writer has yielded or sold out , any more than it should persuade us that the boy poet Klima is in every sense the boy poet Jaromil . |
| 5 | A performance such as this persuades us that such assessments are quite wide of the mark , and almost as unjust as the neglect of Summer 's Last Will . |