Example sentences of "[adj] to tell the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 2 | Be prepared to tell the boat to windward that this is what you intend to do so that he does nor barge down onto you and force you further along the line . |
| 3 | Mr Stott went on : ‘ Investigative journalism like this has proved that no Minister , however powerful , however rich , however threatening he might be , can come up against a newspaper that is prepared to tell the truth . |
| 4 | I would n't have come if I was n't prepared to tell the truth . |
| 5 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 6 | It was impossible to tell the age of the man who owned that face , what he had looked like five minutes ago , or even that that was the face of a man . |
| 7 | Admirers of Edison 's tinfoil phonograph are on record as saying that it was impossible to tell the difference between the recording and the original . |
| 8 | With mono recordings , many experiments over the decades have attempted to prove that it is impossible to tell the difference between the original and a recording . |
| 9 | Sometimes it is impossible to tell the difference between a solid model and a 3D drawing . |
| 10 | The La Guardia flightpath problems apart , one of the main reasons why the current Flushing Meadow is a practical disaster , not least for the world 's media , marooned 120 ′ above the Centre Court , where it is impossible to tell the difference between a drive and a lob , is that because of the short time available , they did try ( albeit with their best efforts ) , to adapt the old Louis Armstrong concert stadium into a tennis arena , rather than start from scratch . |
| 11 | The garages blend the different fuels together so that it is impossible to tell the difference between the blended mixture and unadulterated 4-star . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes , it is impossible to tell the entity is discarnate ; it can look just like a living person . ’ |
| 13 | Her hair was long , and it was impossible to tell the place at which it merged with the fabric . |
| 14 | It is , of course , quite easy to tell the difference by tapping the walls inside to see which are hollow , and in any case you will soon find out when you try to hang shelves , mirrors or pictures on the walls . |
| 15 | It is only the females that sting , but it is not easy to tell the difference between the sexes . |
| 16 | On the other hand , in real space-time , in which events are labeled by ordinary , real values of the time coordinate , it is easy to tell the difference — the time direction at all points lies within the light cone , and space directions lie outside . |
| 17 | It is easy to tell the difference between a buzzard and an ordinary bird . ’ |
| 18 | D'Arcy savoured his brandy and studied Victor for a moment , before deciding exactly how much to tell the Frenchman . |
| 19 | It was hard to tell the colour of their faces from that of their tunics . |
| 20 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 21 | The music wanders on , it is hard to tell the end of one phrase from the beginning of another , and the theme loses shape and becomes unmemorable . |
| 22 | She was quick to tell the world that Britain would not stand for anything which undermined the role of the queen , ‘ our beloved monarch ’ , or of our 700-year-old parliament . |
| 23 | Who is supposed to tell the council of any changes in circumstances ? |
| 24 | The prospect of publicity deters perjury : witnesses are more likely to tell the truth if they know that any lie they tell might be reported , and provoke others to come forward to discredit them . |
| 25 | I 'm feeling pretty tired to tell the truth . |
| 26 | I asked him if he 'd misheard the name of the pub and he said gosh how original , he bet nobody had thought of that before and he 'd be sure to tell the landlord . |
| 27 | It 's not a sin to lie about it but , in my opinion , it 's far better to tell the truth . |
| 28 | I reckon he 's pretty homesick to tell the truth . |
| 29 | At one place they visited , Moccas Court , in Herefordshire , home of the Cornwall family , she was able to tell the curator who formerly worked for the Ropner family at Thorp Perrow , near Bedale all about the people whose impressive portraits hung on the walls . |
| 30 | He had problems forming an administration and it was not until 1st July that he was able to tell the Queen of his main ministerial appointments . |