Example sentences of "but [pers pn] doubt [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |
| 2 | This may prove to be the most expensive contest staged in Britain , but I doubt whether it really will be the biggest since the war . |
| 3 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 4 | I 'm trying not to be unkind but I doubt whether he has the requirements for international football and I would n't be surprised if he 's missing from next week 's squad . |
| 5 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 6 | Or he could have gone to the lavatory , but I doubt whether he would have heard anything from there . ’ |
| 7 | We 'll have plenty of photographs to show you but I doubt whether we 'll be able to learn very much from them . ’ |
| 8 | Canopus can easily be found by using Alnitak and Saiph , in Orion , as direction-finders , but I doubt whether this will be necessary , because Canopus ' brilliance makes it stand out at once . |
| 9 | She was a quiet , gentle soul , she had no malice in her , but I doubt whether she had the smallest capacity for taking care of other people . |
| 10 | He is — was — an extremely competent forensic biologist , but I doubt whether he would have gone any higher . |
| 11 | But I doubt whether anyone is feeling a purely personal grief . |
| 12 | Might they fail to get satisfaction from what they are doing , These are important questions but I doubt whether anyone would deliberately design difficulty into a task ( they would probably choose variety ) . |
| 13 | LORD ELLENBOROUGH : I think Harris v. Watson was rightly decided ; but I doubt whether the ground of public policy , upon which Lord Kenyon is stated to have proceeded , be the true principle on which the decision is to be supported . |
| 14 | I do not doubt the hon. Gentleman 's aspiration to get people off the dole queue , but I doubt whether he has any policies to achieve that . |
| 15 | I will raise the point with my right hon. Friend , but I doubt whether a statement next week would be appropriate . |
| 16 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 17 | But I doubt that it is irrelevant to it . |
| 18 | But I doubt that I shall come along and see it — this year . |
| 19 | Of course , Westland and all the associated issues about the harmonisation and rationalisation of the European defence industrial base are important , but I doubt that one specific case would in itself have been enough to become a resigning Issue . |
| 20 | No doubt some contemporaries of the journalists who uncovered Watergate accused them of partisan bias and lack of balance — but I doubt that any of these commentators would have drawn an analogy between this investigative reporting and the repeated and transparently mendacious press statements of the Nixon Administration . |
| 21 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 22 | He had a girl here too , but I doubt that meant too much , as wild as him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm glad to see you 're putting those binoculars to good use , ’ Windeler said , indicating the Zeiss that Schaffer was still holding , ‘ but I doubt that they 'll tell you much . |
| 24 | Such methods can help individuals gain greater personal insight , but I doubt that individual insight , personality matching , or even exercises in group dynamics can produce much in the way of organizational change or an overall improvement in leadership effectiveness . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've got a few scratches — but I doubt that there are any splinters , ’ he remarked . |
| 26 | But I doubt that such a romantic vision really matches the truth . |
| 27 | Conduire ( literally , ‘ to guide along a path ’ : to give direction ) can presumably be compared to dirigieren ; but I doubt that battre la mesure can be likened to tactieren . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's welcome news , of course , but I doubt that it will remove all the very real concerns that abound in the community . |
| 29 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 30 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |