Example sentences of "to tell [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 2 | In the new chapter , Morton is believed to tell how the Palace confronted Diana with the tape . |
| 3 | But then you have a different problem , how to tell when the story is finished . |
| 4 | But then you have a different problem : how to tell when the story is finished . ’ |
| 5 | If this is the exchange-rate mechanism working as it is supposed to , how will it be possible to tell when the system is failing ? |
| 6 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 7 | Upon the record being reperformed , it was at least possible to tell when the pianoforte stopped playing . ’ |
| 8 | Under these new European trade regulations , they seem not to tell where the things originate . |
| 9 | The red glow from the furnaces fell across the treadmills , turning the steel mesh to angry crimson , bathing the creatures inside them to eerie , unnatural life , blending and merging them with the machinery , until it was very nearly impossible to tell where the treadmills ended and the human creatures began … |
| 10 | ‘ So it 's hard to tell where the atmosphere ends and the planet itself begins . ’ |
| 11 | The guilt of that rashly administered vodka , combined with a sense of shame at decades of serving up meals of such a consistency that it is impossible to tell where the food ends and the plate begins , is obviously weighing heavily on his shoulders . |
| 12 | Unable to tell where the fire 's coming from . |
| 13 | Like the sound of a gong , it was impossible to tell where the clash of the clapper on the bell ended and its echo began . |
| 14 | It is one thing to distinguish a cuckoo 's egg from those of its host , but quite another to tell apart the eggs of two different starlings . |