Example sentences of "be often [adj] to tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , referees are often able to tell when this has happened , and instead of disallowing the score they may impose a serious penalty for feigning injury ! |
| 2 | The people you mix with — friends and enemies ; the fact that it 's often tough to tell them apart . |
| 3 | For the outsider , however , it 's often difficult to tell whether Dublin is undergoing a prolonged rock renaissance or simply wallowing in a lazy , hand-me-down hippiedom that outlived its sell by date everywhere else . |
| 4 | Because of the ontological indeterminacy inherent in the narrative , it is often impossible to tell who an interlocutor is , or whether a scene is being remembered or merely imagined by one of the characters involved . |
| 5 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 6 | It is often possible to tell which part of the world people come from just by listening to them talk , whether it is from Poland , Jamaica , Pakistan or Hong Kong . |
| 7 | Since he has a very fluent running style , with little lateral arm movement and a very low leg lift , it is often hard to tell when Zarei is weary , but at the 6-Day race on the Gateshead Stadium track last October , it was clear he ran to his absolute limit . |
| 8 | As people can not buy what is n't on sale it is often important to tell " the trade " , like retailers , first about a new product or an impending advertising campaign . |
| 9 | Other places were also hit savagely from time to time , but it is often difficult to tell from the registers which particular disease was responsible for an unusually high number of deaths . |
| 10 | And Mr Malik , who generally left the school , adopted such a histrionic attitude that it was often difficult to tell whether he was praising God or auditioning for him . |
| 11 | After April 9th it was often difficult to tell to whom the Mort Homme , smoking like a volcano from the concentrated fire of both artilleries , actually belonged . |