Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] it [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come to you to know if it is true that you hold him here in your charge . ’ |
| 2 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 3 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 4 | Inspect the water tank to see if it is sound and well insulated . |
| 5 | You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public . |
| 6 | What do you think influenced you , I mean if you went to choose a chair did you sit on it to see if it was comfortable or were you more interested in what it looked like ? |
| 7 | Indeed , sitting through the replay it was difficult to gauge whether it was live or not . |
| 8 | This sudden increase had been very difficult to manage because it was unexpected and the team wanted to analyse these new demands on its investigative service . |
| 9 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 10 | the child 's history of toilet training both during the day and at night to determine whether it is primary or secondary in origin and its continuity |
| 11 | They still have discretion to determine whether it is long-term or short-term profitability that they should be striving to achieve and discretion as to how to go about realizing that goal . |
| 12 | This can then be compared with the market price of the share to determine whether it is underpriced or overpriced . |
| 13 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 14 | It must be for Parliament to decide whether it is satisfied that an Act should be passed in the form and with the wording set out in the Act . |
| 15 | what would you look for , if you were looking to see whether it was continuous or not ? |
| 16 | He said he wanted to be pleased at this news , but had been unable to confirm whether it was true or not , since Susan had not requested assistance in the boy 's upbringing , nor did she intend to call on him for support . |
| 17 | You can place any factual statement into one of three groups : a ) true b ) false c ) you are unable to say whether it is true or false . |
| 18 | ‘ Who are you to tell if it 's misguided and inappropriate ? |
| 19 | Enveloped by the cloak , it was impossible to tell if it was male or female , but the worshipper had evidently finished praying . |
| 20 | A foreign accent is an unknown quantity ; you have to be rather good at languages to tell whether it 's common or not , and most of Nigel 's acquaintances did n't speak any other language well . |
| 21 | Now , when you 're trying to distinguish whether it 's idiomatic or not , do n't , you know it 's very difficult to find the fine line between something which is formal , and still idiomatic , and something which is idiomatic through being too colloquially informal . |