Example sentences of "not tell [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , we are not told whether the station lay on or near B 's proper route , or whether it was so much off the route that every yard he went was a yard away from his employment and not to it . |
| 2 | Unless they are called as witnesses , victims are often not told when a case is coming to court . |
| 3 | I can not tell whether the phone has stopped ringing or not ; at some point I think I hear a ring louder than all other rings , and a voice , not Maggie 's voice , but another voice , a woman 's voice , a slow Scottish accent , asking and begging for Crilly . |
| 4 | A bald answer to a problem , even though correct , will not earn many ( perhaps not any ) marks , because the examiner can not tell whether the student has knowledge or is just guessing . |
| 5 | You can not tell if a youngster really has , for instance , stopped smoking , but you will know if your teenager gets in at the negotiated time . |
| 6 | Because the data comes from a survey conducted at one point in time , we can not tell if the relationship is conditional upon age or period , however . |
| 7 | You could n't tell whether a Geordie 's frigging Irish or Scottish . |
| 8 | You ca n't tell whether the person is male or female . |
| 9 | He could n't tell whether the whistler was moving away from or towards him . |
| 10 | Jaq could n't tell whether the hydra was single or plural , connected or disconnected . |