Example sentences of "[prep] doubt " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 2 | It celebrates creativity amid doubt and despondency — creativity as energy but also as a duty , work to be done by man as it is the sun 's task to shine . |
| 3 | There are always moments of doubt . |
| 4 | Moments of doubt she magicked away with the spell of Lucy 's eyes . |
| 5 | I sense of doubt and hesitancy lingers . |
| 6 | The most obvious area of doubt was in the chucking marks , and in this area the drawings must again be followed . |
| 7 | A common feeling among Tory MPs is that on matters such as the resurrection of Christ , on which the Bishops should be certain , they are full of doubt ; but on matters such as the precise level of the public sector borrowing requirement , they are vociferous in their certainty . |
| 8 | Flames of doubt were fanned by the crew 's insistence that they had activated the emergency radio beacon for a week , though it was not picked up . |
| 9 | The leaders blamed the disenchantment of their young people on an international conspiracy by reactionary forces aimed at , according to Mr Honecker , ‘ confusing people and sowing seeds of doubt in the power and advantages of socialism ’ . |
| 10 | Ms Kennedy said that coupled with the suggestion — left over from a case in 1976 — that woman and boys tend to lie , this initial suggestion of doubt can be an ‘ appalling ’ for the victim , who was already having to relive the ordeal in court . |
| 11 | ‘ Moments of doubt and uncertainty always arise , even with the greatest people . |
| 12 | The other area of doubt concerns a question whether the same laws of historical development apply to the whole history of mankind or whether different , simpler laws apply to primitive societies . |
| 13 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 14 | I shall be a failure , I shall have to take Holy Orders , but you see , I 'm in such an agony of doubt , I ca n't decide . ’ |
| 15 | One of the problems was a certain sense of doubt about British and indeed Western objectives . |
| 16 | RACAL is the company which proves beyond a shadow of doubt that share prices say nothing about what a company is worth . |
| 17 | In cases of doubt , a trustee may protect himself by obtaining , at the cost of the trust property , the direction of the court , and the Trustee Act 1925 , s. 61 , had enabled the court to relieve a trustee , who has acted honestly and reasonably and ought fairly to be excused , from liability for breach of trust . |
| 18 | There was no question of doubt but that the Irish had been blessed with the gift of the Blarney . |
| 19 | But a tiny , treacherous crack of doubt had opened in his mind . |
| 20 | It was a great release from the torture of doubt , confusion , and anxiety to abandon her mind to revenge . |
| 21 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 22 | There is without a shadow of doubt some very nasty gossip about me now sludging its filthy way through the intestines of the society I know and have come to despise . |
| 23 | Everywhere she looked there were areas of doubt and her apprehension grew . |
| 24 | In 1555 , it was punishable only ‘ according to the quality of the fault in their bodies and goods at the Queen 's Grace 's pleasure ’ — that is , there was now an element of doubt expressed about the exaction of the extreme penalty . |
| 25 | ‘ There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that we will win , ’ he says . |
| 26 | An opinion poll conducted among passengers by driver Tony Norris proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the Conservatives will confound the nation on Thursday . |
| 27 | But as the chill of doubt takes hold , underpinned by Lincoln 's development from an enchanting small boy into an adolescent from hell , Carroll 's novel abruptly veers off the rails , lurching from an interesting and astute study of an ordinary man faced with a monstrous moral dilemma into a considerably less interesting fantasy about ( I think ) cyclical existence and reincarnation . |
| 28 | Once I actually got inside the privacy of the polling booth , a wave of doubt came over me . |
| 29 | The dropped goal , the ball agonisingly slow in flight , was a beauty but there was a strong element of doubt about the validity of the exchanges immediately before . |
| 30 | Is a life of doubt diversified by faith , |