Example sentences of "it be [adj] to say whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 2 | But er er exact er victories if you in that respect , it 's hard to it 's hard to say whether they were any . |
| 3 | But it is impossible to say whether a structure , along the lines alleged , exists . |
| 4 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
| 5 | It is impossible to say whether Asian elephants enjoy working . |
| 6 | Hunsdon himself died in debt , but it is impossible to say whether this was the consequence of high expenses at court or whether he was typical : in the upper reaches of royal service , where conspicuous consumption was demanded , much would depend upon luck . |
| 7 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 8 | I say " in principle " because , life being what it is , there are many occasions when it is impossible to say whether a story is a pure detection affair or one partaking of more of the crime element . |
| 9 | It is impossible to say whether the younger Eratosthenes ( F.Gr.H. no. 745 Jacoby ) who wrote his books on Gaul about this time , 150 B.C. , had been encouraged by the Romans . |
| 10 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 11 | It is impossible to say whether use of the heavy iron ploughshare or the horse-collar became more widespread during the course of the ninth century in Francia . |
| 12 | Since such changes are inherently unquantifiable , it is impossible to say whether or not people were generally working harder by the end of the boom . |
| 13 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 14 | It is difficult to say whether the rewards of office increased in real terms during the Tudor period . |
| 15 | It is difficult to say whether this was a fertility belief or whether this day was chosen simply because Good Friday was usually a holiday for the old farming community and therefore a convenient occasion for a workman to plant his own garden . |
| 16 | As Dunleavy and Rhodes ( 1988 , p. 123 ) observe , ‘ high-spending ’ authorities not rate-capped tended to increase rates in order to build reserves against possible rate-capping in the future ; hence , ‘ it is difficult to say whether selective rate-capping has marginally decreased total local government taxation … or substantially increased it ( by encouraging many more councils to raise ( taxes ) as an insurance ’ . |
| 17 | It is difficult to say whether rationalisation resulting from these processes will be most pronounced in the traditional regions , such as the West Midlands and South East , or in the slower growing regions of the UK periphery , where low technology mass production units may be extremely vulnerable to closure owing to increased levels of import penetration . |
| 18 | Although it may be correct to say that when the Accounts were audited they ‘ gave ’ a true and fair view of the company 's financial position it is difficult to say whether or not they now ‘ give ’ a true and fair view . |
| 19 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
| 20 | It is hard to say whether any conclusions may be draw for the British car industry by considering the car industries of other countries . |
| 21 | It is hard to say whether speeches have any effect nowadays . |
| 22 | It is easier to say whether a man has paid the money or not than to say whether he has complied with other orders ; and if he fails to pay , it is easy to get the money by selling his goods , if he has any . |
| 23 | Wycliffe watched her , dreamy-eyed ; it was impossible to say whether he was interested or not , even whether he was really listening . |
| 24 | Unfortunately fresh tissue was not available from the carcinoma , and therefore it was impossible to say whether it also contained a p53 gene mutation . |
| 25 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 26 | It was hard to say whether it was animal or human . |
| 27 | It was hard to say whether the track continued on the other site or not . |