Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] whether [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
2 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
3 | Yet if the example is modified a little , so that the overtaking is on a country road at night and the risk is known to be slight , it becomes questionable whether the causing of death in these circumstances should be labelled in the same way as intentional killings . |
4 | Thus it has been observed that ‘ it remains unclear whether the abolition of corporal punishment in schools results from a spread of child-centred views or not : references to parents ' rather than children 's rights to decide school policies make such interpretation doubtful ’ . |
5 | It remains unclear whether the types of vessel so commonly found in cremation cemeteries were also used domestically ; the evidence of the settlement of West Stow where stamped vessels of a type found in cremation cemeteries were present amongst other rubbish and which may have been made there , is ambiguous . |
6 | Lapse Theory can be invoked to explain all the results described above , but it remains unclear whether the lapses in attention induced by lowered arousal are the only important symptoms of sleep loss . |
7 | It remains uncertain whether the precursors of different dendritic cells are found among the peripheral blood monocytes or represent a discrete circulating cell type . |
8 | It remains uncertain whether the Sunday trading provisions of the Shops Act 1950 continue to form part of our law . |
9 | The Court of Appeal took the view that it remained unclear whether the court had so resiled . |
10 | Consciousness of this fact , plus a desire to court moderate Republican opinion , ensured that early rebel pronouncements were limited to vague calls for the prevention of left-wing revolution , the maintenance of national unity and the restoration of authority ; beyond that it remained unclear whether the rising , if successful , would produce a conservative , more authoritarian republic , a monarchist restoration , a military dictatorship or perhaps even an out-and-out fascist state . |
11 | By the end of the month , however , it remained unclear whether the resignations had become effective . |
12 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
13 | In promulgating the new Constitution Ganilau expressed the hope that elections would be held in 1991 , although it remained unclear whether the opposition Labour Party would participate . |
14 | It remained unclear whether the action related to efforts to seize Gen. Manuel Noriega , the Panamanian leader , on drugs charges . |