Example sentences of "[be] not clear whether [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not clear whether Peter Bullock , the chief executive of Neill , will be staying . |
| 2 | It is not clear whether Poole 's motives were merely altruistic , or whether , as seems more likely , he had begun to question the wisdom of having an emotionally dependent and notoriously radical young poet as his neighbour . |
| 3 | From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate . |
| 4 | Now that the gamekeeper has turned poacher , it is not clear whether Fabius will fight as hard as his predecessor for money . |
| 5 | This region was one of those most affected by the depopulation of villages and hamlets , several having recently been enclosed ; large numbers of poor in parts point to consequent loss of employment , although it is not clear whether people had actually been turned off the land or the townships had gradually contracted . |
| 6 | It is not clear whether Lancaster 's men were in arms or not , but Mortimer regarded his absence as a sufficient threat to raise a force in the king 's name , and on the way back to London from Salisbury in the company of the king this force encountered Lancaster 's men near Winchester . |
| 7 | The information was collected after the attempt and it is not clear whether patients would have acted as they claimed they would but , taken at face value , the findings support the case for better health education and warning about the effects of drugs . |
| 8 | It is not clear whether mandamus is available in respect of any failure by a statutory authority to perform a statutory duty . |
| 9 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 10 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 11 | But it is not clear whether Ms Gibson made arrangements with neighbours , who had cared for Gemma before . |
| 12 | Their bodies were only discovered after about a fortnight ; it was not clear whether Kelly 's death was part of a suicide pact . |
| 13 | It was not clear whether Mmusi would remain secretary-general of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party . |
| 14 | Mr Johnson recorded an open verdict because it was not clear whether Mr Venables took the ecstasy himself , whether it had been placed in his drink or how many tablets he had taken . |
| 15 | It was not clear whether Mr Christopher had succeeded in persuading Egypt to accept an Israeli offer to allow 101 of the deportees to return home immediately and the rest by the end of the year . |