Example sentences of "with a clear conscience " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they could dance with a clear conscience . |
| 2 | They could claim , with a clear conscience , that their feet had never left Ross-shire soil . |
| 3 | In a society where animals were being exploited with increasing intensity , self-justifying proposals of this kind allowed their suffering to be accepted with a clear conscience ( Thomas , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Bread tastes wonderful without butter , potatoes are delicious without fat , we can eat spaghetti , rice and porridge — all with a clear conscience . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , it was Major 's readiness to use this language ( which , interestingly , Mrs Thatcher , in her effluvial megalomania , regards as Marxist ) that allowed people to vote Conservative , albeit not with a clear conscience . |
| 6 | The T&G would like to support her with a clear conscience and every left-of-centre statement from her helps . |
| 7 | I , Anne Mowbray , Duchess of York , can very shortly follow my own path with a clear conscience … |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said again , while the thought came to her , unbidden , horrifying and wicked , yet it would not go away : If the result of this amnio-whatever test is adverse , if there is something wrong with the foetus , then I could have an abortion with a clear conscience . |
| 9 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 10 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 11 | It was not designed to contradict chapter 3 on collegiality , still less subtly to undermine it ; it was to enable the die-hard conservative minority to vote for chapter 3 with a clear conscience . |
| 12 | Now , I can do so with a clear conscience : Col. Sutherland 's book is the only substantial and comprehensive single reference on SF from its obscure beginnings in the early days of the Cold War to its subsequent apotheosis in Vietnam , with its somewhat confused role in the 1980s . |
| 13 | Company pensions enabled them to lay off older and less productive workers with a clear conscience and health care directly promoted more efficient production . |
| 14 | Goodness is defined as that which pleases God , so the Christian with a clear conscience is the one who is totally absorbed with pleasing him . |
| 15 | ‘ You invent , or goad me into , some failing to give you cause for complaint , so that you can then screw around with a clear conscience . |
| 16 | He was naturally mean but aware that this was an unattractive characteristic ; therefore he was always swift to take an opportunity of indulging his parsimony with a clear conscience . |
| 17 | Let me repeat , in Darcy 's Utopia Church and State will be firmly separated : religious broadcasting will be forbidden on the grounds that it is divisive , racist , sexist , and an incitement to violence as belief structure clashes with belief structure — Christian at the hands of the Jew , Hindu the Muslim , Protestant the Catholic , Sikh of Buddhist , Capitalist of Communist , and of course vice versa — and no doubt the Moonies and the EST-ites will soon be kneecapping one another with a clear conscience . |
| 18 | Eating with nice people , drinking with nice people , and sleeping with a clear conscience . |
| 19 | A wind large enough to make it certain that no Yule feast could be held , and small enough to allow the workmen and their womenfolk and the hall people who were over already to cross to the shore and spend Christmas with a clear conscience at home … |
| 20 | Okay , it 's just about five past so we can probably start with a clear conscience . |
| 21 | But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience . |
| 22 | ‘ He wanted to get the matters cleared up once and for all so he could return to this country in future with a clear conscience , ’ said Mr Spain . |
| 23 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 24 | I do n't know when he had last closed his eyes with a clear conscience but he did that day . |