Example sentences of "[v-ing] whether it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 2 | If you 're wondering whether it sounds like a thirty year-old Strat , the answer is an obvious ‘ no ’ . |
| 3 | She caught herself wondering whether it mattered if Pascoe had done it , whether it was invariably wrong to kill when a murder meant removing a menace . |
| 4 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 5 | If we can never be certain that we have stated every objective we might have , in the clearest form , and with the most practical means of testing whether it has been achieved , this does not mean that we abandon the attempt or that to try one 's best under the circumstances is not a helpful activity . |
| 6 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 7 | Each organisation takes a different route in deciding whether it needs computer help in personnel management . |
| 8 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 9 | C.C. 's task was to remember the dividing contour between the red and green section on each trial , deciding whether it matched a probe line presented after each display ( for example , in Fig. 2 the probe matches for the upper panel but not the lower panel ) . |
| 10 | The duty was a subjective one , as in considering whether it had been broken , the court had to take account of the resources of the occupier . |
| 11 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 12 | A recent addition to the Cichlid world is the albino form of our old favourite the Oscar Astronotus ocellatus , about which I receive many queries , mostly asking whether it has special requirements . |
| 13 | Equivalently we can imagine picking up b and carrying it to A without changing its length or direction and then examining whether it fits a exactly . |
| 14 | job and y you were n't really knowing whether it included or excluded the A Cs anyway and that sort of thing . |
| 15 | The absence of any correlative obligation on the part of him who is at the receiving end of the transaction may be material , but is not conclusive , in determining whether it contains an element of bounty or not . |
| 16 | In this chapter , it is proposed to consider in detail the radical legislation passed in Michigan , New South Wales and Canada , with a view to assessing whether it provides a better solution to the problem of rape than that envisaged by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in England . |
| 17 | Accordingly I consider that the degree of international recognition of an alleged government is a relevant factor in assessing whether it exists as the government of a state . |
| 18 | Once an offer can be identified there is not usually any difficulty in ascertaining whether it has been accepted . |
| 19 | 6 If the request is for an expensive sample use tact in discovering whether it has a genuine background . |