Example sentences of "clear whether [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is not clear whether a member of the United Nations , a third party to a conflicting treaty , can demand performance of the Charter by bringing a claim against the conclusion or performance of the conflicting treaty .
2 This happens to some extent with ordinary languages : in Malagasy one has to make it clear whether a ‘ we ’ is inclusive or exclusive , while in Navajo using the verb ‘ to go ’ requires one to give some clues about returning .
3 If , therefore , it is not clear whether a restriction applies to any transfer or only to a transfer to , say , a non-member , or to any type of disposition or only to a sale the narrower construction will be adopted .
4 Nor is it always clear whether a given list of topics constitutes an actual plan for a book or not , or whether a given note pertains to our book at all .
5 Despite strong popular support for a continued US presence , it was not clear whether a new treaty would command the 16 votes ( two-thirds majority ) required in the 24-member Senate .
6 To put the matter simply , it is not clear whether a firm that acts in compliance with the rules of its SRO may nonetheless find itself liable for breach of fiduciary obligation .
7 Where it is not clear whether a particular rulemaking power authorises the making of rules which modify fiduciary duties , there are four possible outcomes .
8 The coroner said it was n't clear whether a blood transfusion would have saved Mr Bain .
9 It is still not clear whether the approximately 250 people still listed as missing include those whom ex-detainees say were still alive in May , or if they include the names of those last seen in 1984 or 1986 .
10 As the Socialist Challenge pamphlet The Battle of Grunwick commented , ‘ it was not made clear whether the TUC condoned the use of ‘ unnecessary force ’ against non bona fide pickets or whether it thought the police were justified in using necessary force .
11 But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days .
12 However , it is not yet clear whether the new regulations , will call for the individual dual pricing of all goods in the shop , or whether a simple surcharge could be added to the bill .
13 What was more , it was far from clear whether the Shadow Cabinet actually supported , or indeed had been consulted on , this proposal .
14 Now it is not clear whether the same picture is true of bacteria .
15 If the cuddly Lord Spencer , for whom the nation held its breath as he walked down the aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral to give away his daughter Diana , will be sorely missed , it is far from clear whether the departure of his widow from Althorp will be seen as a loss .
16 He said it was not clear whether the device was intended for an animal or a person ’ .
17 It is not at all clear whether the failure of a Local Authority to prevent one of its teachers from teaching the acceptability of homosexuality would be construed as promotion by the Local Authority itself .
18 Mr Wise 's Mill continued to make cloth for some time , although it is not clear whether the firm of Ellis and Apperly , who were later recorded there , were more than tenants for a while .
19 It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world .
20 It is by no means clear whether the omission/commission dichotomy which applies to ( and some would say , in the medical-legal field , bedevils ) the crime of murder applies to suicide .
21 This appears to be made up largely of vugs and fractures , although it is not clear whether the ‘ vugs ’ have originated from leaching of evaporites or by brecciation of the carbonates ( Pennington 1975 ) .
22 Otto 's brother-in-law King Athelstan appears to have called himself by a variety of high sounding titles , emperor ( if any of the documents are genuine ) and basileus , the Greek word for king and part of the official title of the Byzantine emperor ( though it is not clear whether the English realized this ) .
23 To the general public , understandably , it was not always clear whether the creation of a Commonwealth involved a grand gesture of renunciation on Britain 's part , or a grand gesture of affirmation on the part of those who took up the option .
24 But it is not clear whether the board will back him in the transfer market — a report out last night forecast a £1m loss at the club this year unless they enjoy a good FA Cup run .
25 ( 149 ) From these , similar artefacts could be dated by comparison ; by this method it is rarely clear whether the date applies to the manufacture or deposition of the artefact .
26 It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 :
27 It would not be clear whether the child 's low performance was associated with poor linguistic ability in relation to British children , or whether it simply reflected the different experiences available to children in Britain and the USA .
28 It is not clear whether the effort involves simply the client end or the full DB2 — both have just been announced for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 .
29 He said that it had not yet been decided how to go about making the cuts in all areas , notably in France , and it is not clear whether the figure of 3,000 includes the 800 to 900 positions that Bull said last week that it intended to eliminate in France .
30 It is not clear whether the effort involves simply the client end or the full DB2 — both have just been announced for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 .
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