Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] whether [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People should be given opportunities to see whether they can change . |
| 2 | Charlotte strained her ears to hear whether he would slip out by the side door and make straight for the garage at the rear of the house for his car , but instead she heard the crisp , light rapping of his heels on the oak staircase . |
| 3 | ‘ I think a lot of Canadians have been waiting with baited breath for several months wondering whether he will stay or go and I think the fact he 's leaving is going to be good for the country , ’ the deputy Liberal leader , Sheila Copps , said . |
| 4 | Router manufacturers debating whether they should license IBM Corp 's Advanced Peer to Peer Networking code or go with the Cisco Systems Inc-inspired Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking , have a third choice . |
| 5 | And they are urging the various parish councils in the Alton and Bordon catchment areas to see whether they can give more financial support . |
| 6 | BRAZIL 's 1-0 victory over what amounted to a Holland B team in Rotterdam on Wednesday night continued the process of pragmatic regeneration they have undergone since the desultory performances in Europe last summer which left some observers wondering whether they would qualify for the World Cup at all . |
| 7 | One young waiter did , but very ( very ) badly , and after several efforts asked whether I could speak English . |
| 8 | Where a quotation is submitted for replacement of an item , the cost should be compared against Comp-U-Claim or alternative suppliers to establish whether we can obtain the item more cheaply elsewhere . |
| 9 | Some families wonder whether they should request information about the background of the child and , if this is supplied , how it should be used . |
| 10 | We shall try to do more about car crime during 1992 , and I shall reflect on my hon. Friend 's comments to see whether we can accommodate his request . |
| 11 | THE future of Hollywood studio MGM-Pathe was in doubt yesterday after independent auditors questioned whether it can continue as a ‘ going concern ’ . |
| 12 | The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement . |
| 13 | So we went back to the basics to see whether we could ask the Government to abolish the ‘ cohab rule ’ altogether . |
| 14 | We were not inundated with offers for the company from the private sector and our financial advisers doubted whether we could sell the business at all . |
| 15 | The Council has therefore reached the view that a formal scheme should not be introduced at this time but that members should be encouraged to take young intrants into their offices if they are able to do so , and the Council therefore recommends members to consider whether they can offer this facility to young people in their areas . |
| 16 | Our colleagues thus are now to be found participating and observing in villages and urban enclaves in Britain and America as well as on the ski-slopes of Europe , and are also making forays into factories , prisons and hospitals to see whether they can produce more interesting and unexpected findings than those already provided by other techniques of research . |
| 17 | I think speaking as another psychiatrist er the medical profession do have to look very carefully and perhaps how a lot of the damage has been done er with how women perceive whether they can ask for help or not because a lot of the women here have raised been giving tranquillizers and my colleague across there has pointed out that tranquillizers are not an appropriate way of treating depression . |
| 18 | My hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State who went to the conference on security and co-operation in Europe meeting in Prague last week was able to take an initiative and arrange for the CSCE to send a human rights team to the two republics to see whether it can help matters . |
| 19 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 20 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 21 | SHOULD Des O'Connor have suffered sleepless nights wondering whether he will wake up tomorrow to discover that Ken Dodd has become Lord Dodd , I have some words of consolation . |
| 22 | for one pound and unfortunately as he the option of the contract and on a number of occasions question whether he should exercise the option . |
| 23 | At the end of a powerful performance , made more remarkable by its unexpected ferocity , he concluded by urging Conservative MPs to consider whether they could continue to support Mrs Thatcher 's leadership . |