Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not uncommon for different members of the same court to be in agreement as to the contents of the procedural duty , but to differ as to whether they describe this as resulting from natural justice or fairness . |
| 2 | Speculation has raged as to whether he did privately support rearmament but the likelihood is that he did not do so before the start of the Korean War . |
| 3 | This is the doctrine — to put it roughly — that actions are right or wrong according as to whether they increase or decrease the amount of happiness in the world . |
| 4 | Beliefs are acceptable or not according as to whether they succeed in their goal of conforming to reality and receive credit or discredit for this by being called true or false . |
| 5 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 6 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 7 | IBOA members in Northern Ireland are to be balloted as to whether they wish to accept or reject the Recommendation of the Tribunal . |
| 8 | I have to you know , and , and besides , when I come out of there I look like as if I 've been . |
| 9 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 10 | Each pie chart shows the proportion of axes found in three areas , classified as to whether they came from the south Downs , Wessex , East Anglia or other mines ( after Craddock et al , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | There has been much debate since the Judicature Acts as to whether they did something more than fuse the two systems at a procedural level , namely to change the substantive law . |
| 12 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 13 | By the time he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal in August of that year , observers were openly speculating as to whether he had become mentally unhinged and he was said to have lost his will to live . |
| 14 | Although widely admired , the ASEA was by no means without its critics , and considerable doubt was expressed as to whether it offered a practical answer to the problem of boy labour . |
| 15 | Doubts were expressed as to whether she had actually written the verses herself . |
| 16 | Informed consent was obtained and patients were questioned as to whether they had experienced any upper abdominal pain or heartburn in the two weeks before endoscopy . |
| 17 | Questioned as to whether she thought there really was a blood tie , this respondent replied : |
| 18 | So extraordinary was this bird and so little was known about it , that previously naturalists had been divided as to whether it belonged to the vulture or the gallinaceous race . |