Example sentences of "wonder whether it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 2 | Management consultants are not quite in the American lawyer category when it comes to vilification , but they attract their fair share ( well almost … ) : the Financial Times defines a management consultant as someone who sees something working in practice and wonders whether it will work in theory … |
| 3 | J K Galbraith wonders whether it can be averted |
| 4 | I am beginning to wonder whether it will be necessary to get the chairman to come to St. Pancras before we can elicit the funds for the project . |
| 5 | For some reason he found himself wondering whether it would penetrate to the forest floor , or would the ground-cover of pine needles remain dry and fragrant ? |
| 6 | ‘ We were wondering whether it would be possible for the Circle to achieve royal patronage . |
| 7 | When challenged to say what was on his mind , he replied that he had been wondering whether it would ever be given to him to make France great again , as it had been in the days of Charlemagne . |
| 8 | Hazel was just wondering whether it would be worth while starting a side-passage to link Bigwig 's hole to Dandelion 's , when he felt a stamp of warning from somewhere close by . |
| 9 | ‘ But of course — my wife says that we anthropologists are like a housewife faced with the remains of yesterday 's stew and wondering whether it can possibly be eked out to make another meal . ’ |
| 10 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 11 | And those who felt a niggle in their knee last month are wondering whether it will get better in April 21 . |
| 12 | There you are , trembling and writhing with lust , feeling passion in every corpuscle , and the penis is snoring away regardless , leaving you in a state of mortal terror , wondering whether it will every work again without the assistance of a rope and pulley . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't you ever wonder whether it would n't be easier to do what s required of you ? ’ |
| 14 | I do n't wonder whether it would be helpful just step back a bit and just look at the county council 's view as to how it should treat migration in the light of what the Secretary of State has approved on two occasions , when this issue has come up . |
| 15 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 16 | I just wonder whether it might have been somewhere like — ’ |
| 17 | I wonder whether it might be an idea to let Liz and Owen live here with the twins ? ’ he asked carefully . |
| 18 | I wonder whether it might be useful to get somebody in from social services side anyway to help to identify some other problems that I 'm having |
| 19 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 20 | I wonder whether it would be appropriate for the Government to make a statement at some stage this evening , at the Government 's choosing . |
| 21 | Chairman I wonder wonder whether it would help if I quoted from the erm the study into b the census information . |
| 22 | in P P G twelve about the guidance the structure plan should provide to a local planner , and put my cards on the table , wonder whether it would n't actually be more to say if York can only provide thirty three hectares , that should be the provision first in York ? |
| 23 | With each new machine I have wondered whether it would go deeper , and whether it would discriminate accurately . |
| 24 | On the subject of the Lions , Finlay Calder wondered whether it might prove a mistake taking both Wade Dooley and Peter Winterbottom to New Zealand as he considered them to be past their best . |
| 25 | ’ So I wondered whether it would put you out too much to let her visit with you for a couple of hours . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't mind sharing the view , there were moments when I wondered whether it could actually be done . ’ |
| 27 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 28 | Seeing that Bruce Harris is to be in Britain in November , I wondered whether it could be arranged to send him something then instead . |