Example sentences of "[art] doubt " in BNC.

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1 The doubt is really whether Western companies have put a sufficiently high price on the information they are providing .
2 Playing the offside game would become a riskier business , especially against forwards with the pace of Lineker or Rush , who would be given the benefit of the doubt which at present goes to defenders .
3 It is little surprise that they are saying that for the time being they will give Mrs Cresson the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ .
4 The doubt has been whether Cuba could sell its products in hard-currency markets without subjecting them to years of tests .
5 The television replay showed clearly that Bailey had not touched the ball , and from the English point of view it was difficult to escape the feeling that Mr Barker — whose umpiring , and that of his colleagues , had been first-class , with , if anything , England getting the benefit of the doubt in several close decisions — had been pressurized into giving him out .
6 General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt .
7 Wilson saw the doubt in her eyes and the droop of her body and felt a shiver pass through her own .
8 Even those who did not endorse the company 's claim to produce ‘ The Best Car in the World ’ were prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt .
9 INVESTORS still willing to give Fisons the benefit of the doubt should look at the pharmaceuticals group 's annual report for 1991 , in which the most striking themes are elephants and flowers .
10 If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup .
11 And that is when the doubt comes in : ‘ Have I really done enough to finish 26 miles strongly ? ’
12 To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour .
13 Thanks to her appealing appearance the Philadelphia audience gave her the benefit of the doubt and listened .
14 Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain .
15 benefit of the doubt .
16 The Japanese claim , first , that because whaling is uncertain the benefit of the doubt must be given to the whalers .
17 The doubt concerns the speed with which the effects are felt , and the magnitude of those effects .
18 First rules is Benefit of the Doubt Rule .
19 Benefit of the Doubt must be given that all employed by the Grand Canyon were brain damaged at birth and were given their bureaucratic procedure in India .
20 The doubt in his tone was understandable , for the sodden object that was reposing in the middle of a puddle bore small resemblance to any form of headgear .
21 Remove the doubt , and they 're knackered .
22 Remove the doubt , and you 're saying ( with quiet dignity ) , ‘ … .
23 If you are in two minds then give the candidate the benefit of the doubt and allow him or her to come for interview and elaborate on the details given on the form .
24 True , it was a televised match and some might suggest that his media advisers were earning their keep , but a prime minister who endures 90 minutes of Chelsea has surely earned the benefit of the doubt .
25 The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short .
26 Do they bring the doubt out into the open to examine it or silence it and pretend it never happened ?
27 The doubt may be a result of forgetting , but is the remedy only a matter of remembering ?
28 The doubt that inevitably follows will be the ‘ press release ’ of self-sufficiency taking over and settling in .
29 Notice that if God really were like our picture of him , then the doubt would be valid .
30 But it is our picture of God , not God , which is at fault , and the doubt is fuelled solely by misunderstanding .
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