Example sentences of "[to-vb] whether it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened her bag and sifted the contents , trying to discover whether it had been searched . |
| 2 | At the end of the four and half hour inquest the cricket sub-committee was asked to re-define the role of captain and chief coach , to consider whether it required a team manger and ordered to report back on 28 November when , presumably , a decision will also be made on the captaincy for next season . |
| 3 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 4 | Material for publication or transmission would be " reviewed before release " in the field by the military information officer in consultation with the unit commander to determine whether it contained sensitive information . |
| 5 | The categories of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ were not , however , abolished , and a Local Education Authority had to decide whether it wished a middle school to be ‘ deemed ’ to be primary or secondary . |
| 6 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |
| 7 | It was the priest who examined the wound after three days to see whether it had healed . |
| 8 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
| 9 | This could be answered by scanning the whole file record by record , examining each to see whether it met the specified requirements . |
| 10 | We said everything should be examined and questioned to see whether it needed to be done at all . |