Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is doubtful [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) That there is no satisfactory address for serving the summons either because he will not give an address , or it is doubtful if he will remain at the address long enough to accept service of the summons or is unable to furnish the name of anyone who would accept service on his behalf , e.g. social worker . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the individual authorities are gagged from revealing anything meaningful about their business or aims and it is doubtful that the prospectuses , when they are published , will be any more illuminating . |
| 3 | They are extremely special , are produced at great cost , and it is doubtful that the mere pleasure their harmony gives to a selected happy few is worth such large public expenditure . |
| 4 | Cases were ascertained from multiple sources , and it is doubtful that any were missed , although we can not be certain . |
| 5 | The draw of central London is still very considerable , and it is doubtful that the pull of an international rail terminal itself is sufficient to significantly alter patterns of business location The Rail Link would not be sufficient to achieve this change in the image of and prospects for the Lea Valley implied by the Gateways scenario : it may not even be necessary . |
| 6 | And it is doubtful that she will feel the need to consult a fortune teller as to her husband 's ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ days as did Nancy Reagan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is generally accepted that odours per se do not cause a risk of infection and it is doubtful whether nausea , sleeplessness , mental strain or depression , commonly suffered by people exposed to odours , would be regarded as evidence of prejudice to health , as they affect a person 's general well-being , rather than threaten a clinical disease . |
| 9 | Strict feudalism was a highly artificial way of making land produce knights , and it is doubtful whether it ever existed outside the imaginations of historians . |
| 10 | City have slumped to halfway after three defeats on the trot and it is doubtful whether the recovery will start at Maine Road today against a Villa side that Reid acknowledges is ‘ brilliantly balanced right through ’ . |
| 11 | In addition , in order for the price mechanism to be an effective way of allocating resources , the consumer ( ie the patient ) must possess good information and it is doubtful whether this is so in most cases . |
| 12 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 13 | The grievances which the commons presented were not just their own but were shared by some amongst the magnates , and it is doubtful whether the commons ' will could have prevailed without this support from amongst the ranks of the nobility . |
| 14 | Citizens in an earlier age got their voting cues from friends and relations , from newspapers and party workers and it is doubtful whether their decisions today are any less soundly based . |
| 15 | Although femininity in a man or masculinity in a woman may accompany homosexuality rather than heterosexuality ( and it is doubtful whether we can be sure on this point ) , the homosexual man or woman can occupy any point on the masculine-feminine scale , just as may the heterosexual individual . |
| 16 | If after the plaintiff has been harmed his damages are increased by his failure to have proper medical attention , this failure by him to mitigate his damage would have prevented him from recovering that portion of his loss which is attributable to his omission , and it is doubtful whether section 13(6) of the 1965 Act has a different effect . |
| 17 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 18 | Sociolinguists working in the variationist paradigm have concentrated on studying phonological variation , and it is doubtful whether variationist techniques can be applied to grammatical variation at all . |
| 19 | Neither abolition nor emancipation therefore produced a satisfactory capitalist solution of ‘ the agrarian problem ’ , and it is doubtful whether this could have been achieved unless the conditions for the development of a capitalist agriculture were already present , as in the areas on the margins of the slave/serf economy such as Texas or ( in Europe ) Bohemia and parts of Hungary . |
| 20 | In political and diplomatic terms nothing came from the meetings , which , given the absence of the Austrian Emperor and the unfortunate incident involving Alexander II , is hardly surprising , and it is doubtful if Napoleon III really expected anything concrete to emerge . |
| 21 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |
| 22 | Development from egg to L3 slows during the autumn and it is doubtful if many of the eggs deposited after September ever develop to L3 . |
| 23 | Germany between the wars felt a sharpening of the internal contradictions by which it lived , but it is doubtful that the people concerned ever had a clear understanding of what was happening because the tensions were buried deep within the very fabric of the Reich and because the form and pattern of struggles that resulted from these tensions were always far removed from the real heart of the matter . |
| 24 | This is generally called the tepidarium but it is doubtful that it was in fact such a room for it would have been too immense to heat and no hypocausts have been discovered under it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Longer sentences may be applauded by some , but it is doubtful whether they will make any significant contribution to the protection of women . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When a blacksmith grows big muscles , he makes more of certain kinds of proteins , but it is doubtful whether he makes any new ones . |
| 29 | In fact , the film was set in the 1950s , but it is doubtful whether any but a few of the millions who watched the film appreciated that life in a mental hospital is any different today . |
| 30 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |