Example sentences of "is [adv] doubtful whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only are we not helped by scholastic logic to acquire knowledge of the forms , natures , or essences of things , and to see how other properties flow from them , but also it is extremely doubtful whether such knowledge is possible anyway . |
| 2 | The former is usually associated with him , and Erikson attributes it to him , but in fact it is extremely doubtful whether this is a legitimate interpretation ( Roshier , 1977 , pp. 310–15 ) . |
| 3 | Moreover , it is perhaps doubtful whether many delinquents hold openly oppositional views or values as Cohen suggests . |
| 4 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
| 5 | It is anyway doubtful whether he would have dared to take things further . |
| 6 | It is also doubtful whether many hospitals were like that then . |
| 7 | It is now doubtful whether urinary tract infection has any role to play in the production of this renal lesion . |
| 8 | Most listed companies do not yet have enough independent directors to fulfil the roles Cadbury allots them , and it is even doubtful whether enough individuals of the right calibre are available for these positions , particularly in view of the heavy legal responsibilities that any company director incurs . |
| 9 | But it is very doubtful whether Assad could accept it : it would mean ditching Tayif and recognising the general . |
| 10 | It is very doubtful whether the occasional smack meted out against a background of a loving , accepting home , does anyone much harm ; but this is true only if the punishment is not too severe or excessive . |
| 11 | And while the IRA leader said how the weaponry received from Libya in 1986 had been ‘ beyond our wildest dreams ’ , it is very doubtful whether the political conditions for the military campaign can be maintained for many more years . |
| 12 | In my opinion it is very doubtful whether all this disruption to so many people was justified by the experience I gained . |
| 13 | While one can accept that a high standard of proof is apposite in cases affecting liberty it is very doubtful whether it should apply outside of this area . |
| 14 | Many rabbis expected a Messiah after the destruction of the Second Temple , and the greatest of them , Rabbi Akiva , found his Messiah in Bar Kochba under Hadrian , though it is very doubtful whether Bar Kochba himself even claimed Messianic status . |
| 15 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
| 16 | The successful negotiation of a large French loan to Russia in April 1906 , a matter of supreme importance to statesmen in St Petersburg hard-pressed by defeat and revolution , immediately reduced the need for such payments ; and it is very doubtful whether in any case they made any real difference to the course of events . |
| 17 | It is therefore doubtful whether he would have reached this result in the absence of a general trust clause , for it is precisely that which transforms the words retentis tibi hortis meis into a trust . |