Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] whether [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sceptics may doubt whether anyone would read it but our survey shows that viewers take PEBs seriously and rate them only slightly less useful than news broadcasts for helping decide how to vote ( though much less useful than news broadcasts for providing information ) . |
| 2 | In addition , we should consider whether there might be a link between the dominant ideas transmitted through socialisation and those people who benefit from the existing distribution of power and reward . |
| 3 | Where parents are not actually caring for the child at the time of the application the court must consider whether they would be likely to offer a reasonable standard of care if the child were returned to them . |
| 4 | Before instituting criminal proceedings for non-attendance , an LEA must consider whether it would be appropriate , instead of or as well as prosecuting , to apply for an ESO . |
| 5 | We must consider whether it would be desirable or possible to do so to sea-launched ballistic missiles . |
| 6 | When no legal action is to be taken the local authority must consider whether it would be appropriate to review the case at a later stage and , if so , it must fix a review date ( s37(6) ) . |
| 7 | If it decides not to apply for an emergency protection , child assessment , care or supervision order it must consider whether it would be appropriate to review the case at a later date ( s47(7) ( a ) ) . |
| 8 | A special board of psychiatrists and other professionals should decide whether they should be released . |
| 9 | If a child subject to an EPO is not living in local authority accommodation , inquiries should establish whether it would be in the child 's best interests to be moved ( s47(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 10 | In overall terms , between 1900 and the present day , the state apparatus for collecting and sorting criminal information has changed so dramatically that we must question whether it can supply us with a valid measuring-stick with which to compare the two periods . |
| 11 | Offered to the museum for £800 by Hans Calmann , who subsequently lowered the price to £550 as the Committee ‘ felt a little uncertain about the Bust — or rather , I should say whether we should pay up ’ because a bust of the same period ‘ more certainly by Foggini ’ had been purchased by the V&A for £80 a few years before . |
| 12 | This is a year when a partnership is not only important in itself , but when you should ask whether it can take you where want to go . |
| 13 | In just 2 weeks time , we 'll know whether he 'll become one of its youngest Presidents ; whether Leckford Road really CAN lead to the White House . |
| 14 | Ten new age travellers who bought a plot of land to live on have been visited by the councillors who 'll decide whether they can stay . |
| 15 | As Labour 's spokesman on Northern Ireland , one might enquire whether he would not be better employed trying to do something about the vermin planting bombs in the Six Counties rather than those worrying sheep in the Home Counties . |
| 16 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 17 | Well , I think he said before , let's see whether we can use this , |
| 18 | I often used to wonder whether we should carry these new springs of happiness away with us when we emerged . |
| 19 | Before the weekend was out she would know whether she should stay or go back to London . |
| 20 | We are obliged to send the details to the Crown Prosecution Service , and in six months ’ time we shall know whether we can prosecute . |
| 21 | ( 50 ) We shall see whether you dare keep your word . |
| 22 | We will ensure that the total number of warheads on the four-boat Trident system is limited to no more than that currently deployed on the Polaris system , and our Defence Review will consider whether we can reduce this further without threatening security . |
| 23 | It will consider whether it would be feasible for the courts to act as monitors of management standards on a scale significantly greater their current ( very low ) level of involvement . |
| 24 | If it can be made to work — and time will show whether it can become a reality — that may be the moment to return to subjects such as political and economic union and the benefits of a different defence structure . |
| 25 | If you sent one , which I ca n't confirm from my files , and would like it returned , please contact me and I will see whether we can trace it . |
| 26 | But we will see whether he can get back into full training for a few days . ’ |
| 27 | Only time will tell whether it can hold its place in this competitive field . |
| 28 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 29 | By the way erm for non-metro districts they can choose whether they can have election by thirds or not , and you do occasionally get r you do occasionally you can get , get very occasional examples of a , of a dis of a district council opting to switch from one to the other . |
| 30 | Occupying , as he does , what is virtually a vice-regal position , only he can judge whether he can maintain his authority after the visit to Dublin . |