Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] whether [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is . |
| 2 | Fortunately I was n't close enough to see whether the prediction was correct , or if the beaker was in fact too small . |
| 3 | The third part will draw the work together to establish whether the effect of the changes in the supply and demand side of the heavy electrical industry will lead to a more efficient market structure and assess the role of national and international authorities in improving the functioning of this market . |
| 4 | Additionally young people 's ideas about parenthood and family life are related to their decisions about education , careers , and heterosexual relations to evaluate theoretical approaches to adolescent development and especially to question whether the establishment of an identity separate from parents and family is necessarily a key issue for young people . |
| 5 | The tribunal stressed throughout that its role was only to assess whether the health authority had followed proper procedure . |
| 6 | It is best , perhaps , not to speculate whether the hostelry still exists in which he discovered ‘ … a low-spirited little man sitting at an empty ‘ bar ’ and hiding himself , as it were , from all mortal inspection behind the full sheet of a dirty provincial newspaper . |
| 7 | The decision tree to go through to decide whether the Information memorandum is an investment advertisement or not is set out in detail in Appendix 3 to this section and should be followed in all cases . |
| 8 | Teachers , too , are assumed by some of the proponents of opting out not to care whether the school , with a changed status , has to buy in the traditional services of local advisers , librarians or in-service training . |
| 9 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 10 | The study , carried out by Shetland Health Board and the Environmental Health ( Scotland ) Unit , was set up to establish whether the spill could have long-term health effects . |
| 11 | Once the courts moved towards applying the collateral fact doctrine , and to that extent redetermining the constituent elements of certain of the conditions of jurisdiction , it became natural also to consider whether the evidence supported the existence of those collateral facts . |
| 12 | But in doing the balancing act it is necessary also to consider whether an injustice will be perpetrated if a local authority does not have the right to protect its governing reputation by an action for libel , and whether such an action , if available to a local authority , would be proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 13 | We report here the results of a case-control study set up to investigate whether the excess was related to parents ' employment in the nuclear industry . |
| 14 | We need also to ask whether the confinement of the democratic principle to the government of the state really meets the aspirations which democracy was intended to realize . |
| 15 | They went on to consider whether the return during trading on one market leads the return during trading on the other markets . |
| 16 | The court rejected this proposition , but went on to consider whether the Secretary of State could justifiably depart from the judicial view on tariff . |
| 17 | Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves . |
| 18 | Designers should check locally to determine whether the Local Act is still operative in the area proposed for building a high- bay warehouse . |
| 19 | THE OTHER morning I put my head out to see whether the gardening close season was over and my plot was ready to receive me . |
| 20 | Only after Dirac had predicted that there must be positrons as well as electrons ( verified in 1932 ) did he and others set out to see whether the charge and the mass of an electron can be derived from first principles . |
| 21 | Further studies need to be carried out to determine whether the finding of similar strains of H pylori in different members of the same family is a frequent occurrence . |
| 22 | It is therefore necessary here to see whether the questioning by Gary and Aggi was such as to require the judge in his discretion to exclude the conversation . |
| 23 | A system of flags is also stored here to indicate whether the word must begin with a capital to form a valid word , if the word is a common mis-spelling and a flag detailing whether the word can begin a compound stored in the compound tree . |
| 24 | It would be nice to know who these nobles were ; or even to know whether the chronicler 's choice of phrase was due to ignorance or a desire for brevity or for the sake of discretion . |
| 25 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 26 | The Council fathers were asked simply to decide whether the text before them was an appropriate basis for a definitive document . |
| 27 | In more recent times and in a case which did not strictly involve an employee , Lord Diplock said that the real concern of the courts was simply to ask whether the party with the greater bargaining power had exacted an unfairly onerous benefit ( Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 616 ) . |
| 28 | They 've always come out , but they always do then check while they 're there to see whether the property concerned is on the list of private , adopted or unadopted and there can be a mixture . |
| 29 | The House of Lords has confirmed that " in every case , the magistrates or the jury are called on to ascertain who are the likely readers and then to consider whether the article is likely to deprave and corrupt them " . |
| 30 | ( The court was explaining how to assess whether a procedure was an arbitration or a valuation : in that inquiry it might help to look at the profession of the umpire : see further 15.6 . ) |