Example sentences of "[prep] doubt [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I can say unequivocally and without a shadow of doubt that the Conservative party has no intention whatever , when it is returned to office , to means test the basic retirement pension . |
| 3 | This two-ness or double-ness is the heart of doubt and the deepest dilemma it represents . |
| 4 | But in practice the distinction is not always so clearcut , especially when doubt moves in the direction of unbelief and passes over that blurred transition between the open-ended uncertainty of doubt and the closed-minded certainty of unbelief . |
| 5 | Faith is pictured as the absence of doubt and the man of faith as the man with no doubts . |
| 6 | This is a remarkably brief document , providing so far as service of documents is concerned for letters of request to be addressed by a diplomatic or consular officer of the requesting state to the competent authority of the requested state , and for the execution of any request the authenticity of which was not in doubt unless the requested state considered that this would be contrary to its public policy . |
| 7 | The future of the Scottish grass-court championships , one of the warm-up events for Wimbledon , is in doubt after the Bank of Scotland yesterday withdrew its sponsorship because of ‘ soaring costs ’ . |
| 8 | The future of the controversial James Bay hydro-electric project in northern Quebec [ see ED 56 ] has been put in doubt after the state of New York cancelled a US$12,500 million contract to purchase 1 million kilowatts of electricity from the plant . |
| 9 | The future of Spain 's last remaining brown bears is in doubt after the government has decided in principle to go ahead with the construction of a major dam in a valley that is crucial to their habitat . |
| 10 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 11 | But no-one was in doubt that the real winner was disabled sport . |
| 12 | Do n't be sidetracked into answering a surface problem or comforting the person in doubt if the alien presuppositions are left unchallenged . |
| 13 | Rye should furnish the topography , so that no one who knew Rye could possibly be in doubt where the scene was laid , and I would call it Tilling because Rye has its river , the Tillingham . |
| 14 | One deal with Shell and Exxon to develop a $1 billion liquid-natural-gas project was put in doubt when the foreign partners , wary of the politicians , insisted that an independent arbitrator , not Congress , must settle disputes . |
| 15 | Sometimes it is open to doubt whether the language used by your employer , taken in context , amounts to a dismissal . |
| 16 | Further , and more important , it was open to doubt whether the nobility was properly trained for war . |
| 17 | However , the position is open to doubt where the husband has not elected that some other house should be treated for capital gains tax purposes as his main residence for the period . |
| 18 | The evidence in terms of inch loss recorded by my trial team proves without doubt that the reduction of fat and the increase in fresh fruit and vegetables in our diet really does reduce cellulite , despite all the hormonal , stress , lifestyle and postural factors which could have caused it . |
| 19 | And he knew without doubt that the door must not be opened ; that it was a door of a Pandora 's Box . |
| 20 | The picture shows without doubt that the royal couple are close to a marriage split , says an expert in body language . |
| 21 | Voices came from the direction of the offices and he found Fox expostulating with a tall youngish man , a Glynn without doubt and the heir apparent . |
| 22 | It was clear beyond doubt that the jury were not treating the guilty plea as merely making the background accurate : but , on the contrary , after the judge 's direction in reply to their question , must have treated it as going to proof of the guilt of the appellant . |
| 23 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 24 | It is , however , beyond doubt that the overwhelming majority of Cabinet ministers interviewed declared unequivocally that they believed that she could not win . |
| 25 | Although it is beyond doubt that the group 's motives were strictly honourable , they were always fully aware of the intensely emotive nature of the subject . |
| 26 | It is beyond doubt that the service was meant to be a social institution with aims in addition to those of an economic nature . |
| 27 | The episode illustrates beyond doubt that the majority voting rules of the Treaty of Rome have teeth . |
| 28 | It is beyond doubt that the introduction of the tax sent the numbers of registered voters plummeting . |
| 29 | The current recession has demonstrated beyond doubt that the venture capital industry is subject to the economic cycle after all , and that annual rates of return on such investments of 40% or even 30% are a thing of the past . |
| 30 | Although the jurisdiction to stay a pending prosecution is undoubted , it is equally beyond doubt that the discretion to prevent a prosecution from going to trial should be very sparingly exercised . |