Example sentences of "it [verb] unclear [subord] " 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 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Furthermore , it has long been suggested that there is an inhibitory effect on hepatitis B virus replication by hepatitis delta virus in chronic hepatitis B virus infection , but it remains unclear whether hepatitis delta virus might interfere with the expression of hepatitis B virus envelope antigens in the liver or not .
6 It remains unclear as to how culturally and temporally specific these ideas about the main dimensions of health are .
7 It remains unclear as to whether caring is so easily divided or whether , like morbidity , it is in fact a continuum .
8 Writing is included because , particularly at the later phases of primary schooling , curriculum guidelines are rare , and it remains unclear as to what might reasonably be expected of children once they have mastered putting words onto paper .
9 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 .
10 The Court of Appeal took the view that it remained unclear whether the court had so resiled .
11 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 .
12 It remained unclear whether the action related to efforts to seize Gen. Manuel Noriega , the Panamanian leader , on drugs charges .
13 By the end of the month , however , it remained unclear whether the resignations had become effective .
14 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 .
15 These solutions implied considerable redevelopment in the central , older parts , but it remained unclear as to just what form of renewal was to be adopted either in land use or visual terms , Town planning as an art form may have taken considerable strides in suburban or garden city situations .
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