Example sentences of "was convinced that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rance was convinced that a change of policy was necessary : he told Pethick-Lawrence , ‘ we are in one big morass here which has to be cleared , . |
| 2 | William Beveridge , who was a member of the Committee from its inception in 1934 until 1944 , was keenly aware of this problem of less eligibility and was convinced that a scheme of family allowances could help to overcome it . |
| 3 | He was convinced that a career lay in sport and reckoned the media influenced his perception of himself . |
| 4 | At first , as he battled across the outside pavement and through the raging wind , Cardiff was convinced that a bomb had been detonated on the forecourt outside the office block . |
| 5 | Alexander was convinced that every experience is transmitted into muscular tension ; as you release the tension you may uncover psychological tensions that have been at the bottom of some physical illnesses . |
| 6 | In its mind it was convinced that the vet had returned to hurt it again . |
| 7 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 8 | Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . " |
| 9 | I had all this time neither seen nor heard anything ; nevertheless , I was convinced that the tigress was watching me . |
| 10 | Though his critics maintain they were trying to be constructive and wanted him to stay , Sutton was convinced that the criticism had been organized in advance as a warning that if he did not go , as Pilger was demanding , they would make life hell for him . |
| 11 | Though medical science believed that the muscles affected by polio simply withered and could not be restored , she was convinced that the deformities which followed attacks of infantile paralysis were caused by muscle spasms . |
| 12 | He said that he was convinced that the country did not want change , and was calling the referendum to expose the " lies " spread by " dissidents " about the level of support for multiparty politics ; it would , he said , give " people a chance to vote for me and my party … and to reject the introduction of other political parties " . |
| 13 | Subramanian Swamy , Minister of Law and Justice and of Commerce , said on May 29 that the government was convinced that the LTTE had been involved in the assassination . |
| 14 | Origen was convinced that the gospel had brought ‘ a new song ’ to the world , breaking up ancestral customs . |
| 15 | From the late 1960s he was convinced that the CNAA should shed the more experienced colleges and help the others to be ready to be shed . |
| 16 | Not that the James Committee was convinced that the CNAA would or could accept a validating role for the colleges and the field of study . |
| 17 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 18 | Cayley was convinced that the steam engine would never be suitable , and he experimented from 1799 with hot-air engines , and from 1807 with engines fuelled by gunpowder . |
| 19 | He was convinced that the surface of the planet Mars was criss-crossed by irrigational canals , betraying the presence on that world of a sophisticated civilization . |
| 20 | Because she was physically worse after the operation than before it , Rose was convinced that the doctors had made a mistake , and for a long time she wanted to sue them . |
| 21 | Fillis fed sugar and carrots to horses belonging to other people , and was convinced that the horses lacked affection for their owners because they started whinnying to him after a number of visits with the food . |
| 22 | The French novelist Honoré de Balzac was convinced that the quality of his writing was directly related to the amount of sperm he retained in his body . |
| 23 | In furtherance of this goal the new regime immediately set about the modernization of the economy and the expansion of commerce , for Napoleon III , like most contemporaries , was convinced that the strength of Britain , the dominant power of the era , lay in her financial and commercial soundness . |
| 24 | But , having regard to all the circumstances , and particularly the nature of the second mortgage , I for my part would find it impossible to say that I was convinced that the appellants had the necessary intention to act in contempt of court . |
| 25 | She was miserably sick into her best monogrammed towel , and although this made the sharpness of the headache diminish for the moment Belinda was convinced that the diagnosis of toxaemia was the correct one . |
| 26 | Wilson , a man who combined high ideals with a considerable obstinacy and self-righteousness , was convinced that the opposition must be overcome and refused to compromise on details . |
| 27 | I was convinced that the grass near the fence was long enough to conceal me , so they could n't possibly have spotted me . |
| 28 | By the time the campaign started , and never more strongly than on polling day , I was convinced that the Tories would lose — that Labour would be the biggest party in a hung Parliament . |
| 29 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 30 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |