Example sentences of "is often [adj] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |