Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] whether [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clegg also said he could not estimate whether the speed of the approaching stolen car was closer to 20 or 50mph . |
| 2 | Sometimes , especially when the sun was low and blinding , I could not tell whether a dark shape was a rock a hundred yards away or a crag at three miles . |
| 3 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 4 | A British Rail spokeswoman could not say whether the lorry driver who was taking rolls of newspaper to Scarborough would face charges . |
| 5 | He said that the tests could not ascertain whether the public was at risk from contaminated water because they relied only on healthy volunteers and beaches which met certain standards . |
| 6 | You could n't tell whether a Geordie 's frigging Irish or Scottish . |
| 7 | Jaq could n't tell whether the hydra was single or plural , connected or disconnected . |
| 8 | He could n't tell whether the whistler was moving away from or towards him . |
| 9 | Trent could n't see whether the track ran on to the quarry or stopped at the cabin . |
| 10 | I could n't see whether the revolver was a replica or real , and I certainly was n't going to risk my life for what could have been a bag of pennies . |
| 11 | He could n't say whether the person was male or female , because the curtain was drawn halfway across . |
| 12 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 13 | She could n't remember whether the stories were true or not , but she thought dimly that they had both hoped they were . |