Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] whether [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , you could discover whether the employee 's watch was faulty , or whether she did have a regular hair appointment on Friday . |
| 2 | You could tell whether a horse 's misbehaviour was due to fear or plain stubbornness . |
| 3 | If you have a sympathetic employer and GP you could see whether the person you care for would like to come to work with you but spend one or two days a week on a regular basis in a day centre run by the DHA . |
| 4 | In other words the essential parameters by which European Christians felt they could decide whether a particular other creature was , or was not , a human being — a person like us " — were then , as they still remain , physical appearance , intelligence ( as manifested by language ) , religion . |
| 5 | Det Sgt Martyn Lowrie said officers needed to talk to victim Paul Deacon , 33 , before they could decide whether the blaze at his first floor flat in Ford Way , Bishop Auckland , could have been started deliberately . |
| 6 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |