Example sentences of "wonder if it be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I know the argument that it is necessary to look as if you are filling the political vacuum — if only with hot air — but I 'm beginning to wonder if it is worthwhile . |
2 | I agreed with the decision at the time , though since we have n't managed to identify him I 'm beginning to wonder if it was right . |
3 | We are buying a One Ten County and we were wondering if it is possible to fit central locking using Range Rover parts . |
4 | This autumn the last of my children is off to university and I 'm wondering if it 's realistic to consider entering the job market , since it 's 29 years since I worked . |
5 | ‘ Sometimes , yes , but I ca n't help wondering if it 's likely that a young man on the brink of a successful career and maybe planning marriage to another girl would … |
6 | As this exercise in bureaucracy continues many farmers must have been left wondering if it was all worthwhile , or whether we would not be better off without both the subsidies and the problems which surround the common agricultural policy . |
7 | She was wondering if it was true , if he could somehow arrange her release ; doctors had ordered her internment , so surely it was possible for another doctor to end it . |
8 | She hovered , shifting from foot to foot , wondering if it were fair to wake him up . |
9 | She did not wonder if it was right , and she knew there was no hurt ahead for her . |
10 | I also wonder if it is possible to close the account . |
11 | I wonder if it is desirable that the Revenue , either indirectly as above , or directly by their alternative proposal of ‘ fiscal accounting ’ , should dictate a business 's year end ? |
12 | But can I suggest it 's probably a lot more difficult to get there than you were describing even with the various points that you were raising in your address this morning , because I wonder if it is fair for all of us , to accept the immediate linkage between the voluntary sector whatever we actually mean by that , and good community institutions , community thinking , community awareness . |
13 | I wonder if it 's that every day ? |
14 | I wonder if it 's that one up beside Asda because when I 've gone in before she 's said to me you know if you rang them through I 'd have them ready for you or |
15 | Mm and that 's about right place where it is , I wonder if it 's that . |
16 | Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it 's that parcel midi hi-fi system I 'm |
17 | I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well |
18 | Good afternoon , erm I wonder if it 's possible to book a table for high tea on er Tuesday the twenty first , that 's er Easter Tuesday |
19 | Wonder if it 's this road surf- there 's a feeling a bit of vibration on the steering then . |
20 | I wonder if it 's free to them |
21 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
22 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
23 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |
24 | Of course he had asked her if she was quite certain and she said she was , quite certain , but now he wondered if it was mere association that had made her agree , association and horror . |
25 | Rincewind wondered if it was poisonous , then chided himself for asking such a silly question . |
26 | I wondered if it was different solution ? |
27 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
28 | I wondered if it was responsible for the quiet acceptance of their fate shown by the rabbits chewing their final greenery . |
29 | The electronic strains of a synthesized choir could be heard above the rumbling exhausts and Harry , gazing out at the tinsel-hung shopfronts , wondered if it was this jangling ubiquity of Christmas spirit which made his fellow men and women seem so dismally ignoble . |
30 | It looked like hundreds and hundreds of houses all piled dangerously on top of each other and Endill wondered if it was safe to live in such a place . |