Example sentences of "be doubtful whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of the research we undertook , we are doubtful whether either of the latter two epithets are generally appropriate . |
| 2 | This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps . |
| 3 | Without the promise , it must be doubtful whether Ibstock would have held the dividend . |
| 4 | Details may vary and certain climatic zones may produce more individual features than others , as was suggested above for the glacial and arid climatic zones , but it seems to be doubtful whether fluvially controlled landscapes formed in different climates are as distinctive as is sometimes maintained ( Stoddart , 1969 ) . |
| 5 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |
| 6 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 7 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 8 | Bevin and Dalton agreed with Attlee 's views , although at this late stage they were doubtful whether the National Executive would agree . |
| 9 | However , it is doubtful whether this really has much effect , because in the tail-down position at such low speeds , the tail can not develop much , if any , down-load . |
| 10 | The effect is accentuated if the c.g. is near the aft limit and , in some cases , it is doubtful whether there is sufficient elevator authority to stop the pitching once it has gone beyond the early stages . |
| 11 | But without new supplies from Algeria it is doubtful whether it can sustain an offensive for long . |
| 12 | It is doubtful whether a more impressive specimen of mass self-delusion can be produced from any era of recorded history . |
| 13 | It is doubtful whether many would dispute Honderich 's first two points . |
| 14 | ‘ Bold , not to negotiate with the nationalists ; as the outrage was felt exclusively by the Dutch it is doubtful whether Mountbatten would have resented the description . |
| 15 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if Lewis had been allowed to live in this way , though we might have had a few more mighty works of literary history from his pen , it is doubtful whether he would have written the works for which he is more popular . |
| 17 | Were it not for the prospect of seizing the Swiss money , it is doubtful whether the Philippines would be ready to allow Mrs Marcos home this year or any other year . |
| 18 | It is doubtful whether the Evangelicals , in laying so much stress on the last hour as indicator of the soul 's future state , realised how great a departure this was from the eschatology of the early church . |
| 19 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 20 | One might be able to construct a law which penalized only those batteries which cause , or are likely to cause , significant annoyance , but it is doubtful whether the insertion of a ( necessarily vague ) standard would alter the nature of the problem . |
| 21 | Longer sentences may be applauded by some , but it is doubtful whether they will make any significant contribution to the protection of women . |
| 22 | It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny on the broader canvas of moral and social philosophy : the moral thrust of Caldwell is that people are often just as much to blame for failing to think as they are for thinking about their actions and its consequences , and this very argument was applied to rape in the paragraphs above . |
| 23 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 24 | It is doubtful whether many of the denizens of Admass society saw themselves as victims in the way Priestley did . |
| 25 | When a blacksmith grows big muscles , he makes more of certain kinds of proteins , but it is doubtful whether he makes any new ones . |
| 26 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 27 | Yet it is doubtful whether M Mitterrand can repeat his success of the 1970s and weld the fractions of the Left — what Mme Cresson called ‘ progressive forces ’ — into a whole . |
| 28 | It is doubtful whether the council will be able to recover all the back tax or enforce the costs order . |
| 29 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 30 | A large amount of capital ( £200,000 ) was available to the Western Isles Project from the Van Leer Foundation ; it is doubtful whether individuals , however dedicated , could have raised sufficient enthusiasm for action without it . |