'V that' - Construction 12
| Name: | the doubt that construction |
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| Description: | A person has a specific level of negative certainty about a past, present or future situation. |
| Verbs: | (cannot) conceive, (cannot) credit, disbelieve, doubt, forget |
| Example: | Observers doubted that such targets would be achieved. (BNC) |
| Membership: | cognition |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; that-clause: Phenomenon
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