Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] whether [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 2 | He devised an experiment to ascertain whether salivation could occur in the absence of any obvious physical cause . |
| 3 | In relation to current practice in nursing , Wells ( 1986 ) refers to the European Charter on the Rights of the Patient ( 1983 ) , which enshrines the rights to receive information about diagnosis , therapy and prognosis , and the right to decide whether treatment will be started or continued . |
| 4 | As a result , IBM Italia is negotiating with Database Informatica 's other shareholders to determine whether IBM will invest new money in the company . |
| 5 | Scientists from Europe and from NASA met this month to determine whether Spacelab could operate with just one TDRS satellite . |
| 6 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 7 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 8 | An emergency session of the Armenian parliament on Aug. 17 failed to reach agreement on holding a referendum to decide whether Ter-Petrosyan should resign . |
| 9 | These panels meet termly with head teachers to decide whether priority should be given to the admission of certain individual pupils because of particular educational or social need . |
| 10 | at some stage before A has completely performed his obligations under the contract B has reason to doubt whether A will , or will be able to , complete his side of the bargain and |
| 11 | The latest move is the introduction of a scheme to test whether computers can handle a standard version of Cobol , a language used by business . |