Example sentences of "[vb past] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 2 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 3 | He tried whether he had a voice in the dream , and it seemed that he had , though a curiously meagre one , for she leaned still closer to hear what he wanted , inclining her earnest head to bring a small , close-set ear almost within touch of his lips . |
| 4 | Parents reported whether their children had suffered from attacks of asthma or bronchitis during the past 12 months , whether they usually coughed first thing in the morning or at any other time , whether their chest ever sounded wheezy or whistling , and , if so , whether this symptom was present on most days or nights . |
| 5 | Talks dragged on so long that some doubted whether the project — an aircraft maintenance joint venture with Lockheed and CAAC , China 's national carrier — would ever materialise . |
| 6 | Moreover we have the proverb that no one is elected to anything except to keep two other people out — and some of Cambridge doubted whether Stephen Neill for all his brilliance was reliable , and thought that neo-Thomism , despite the quality of Mascall 's mind , was a retrograde movement in divinity . |
| 7 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 8 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 9 | ( And even if the political will did exist , he doubted whether the institutions which would have to translate it into collective action were strong enough to do so . ) |
| 10 | The Naval shift of emphasis to limited war capabilities was strongly supported by the General Staff , who doubted whether the degree of strategic mobility , upon which Sandys was banking to reduce overseas garrisons , would be practicable with the transport aircraft likely to be available in the foreseeable future . |
| 11 | But others doubted whether that would happen , and events from the middle of 1990 have broadly proved the sceptics right . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was certainly an improvement on the pre-war system , but I doubted whether the money was always reaching the people who most needed it . |
| 14 | Labour leaders doubted whether they had convinced the population of the need to support Republican Spain : |
| 15 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 16 | Leila cried , although she doubted whether the man heard her . |
| 17 | She still doubted whether Roirbak would betray her in this way , but perhaps Lennon was right and Quincx had been duped by Malamute . |
| 18 | He would very likely end up being confined for psychological tests , and Roirbak doubted whether , in Tammuz' present teetering condition , he 'd be strong enough to face them and emerge intact . |
| 19 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 20 | He doubted whether audiences cared much about the origins of a show . |
| 21 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 22 | Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting . |
| 23 | Yet beyond this general expectation he did not pressure them too early , at one point he seriously doubted whether Hideki was fitted to benefit from university study . |
| 24 | I doubted whether Ted spoke to Auntie Jean of this , or of the other manifestations of love that filled our hours — of Eva , for example , imitating the numerous grunts , sighs , snorts and moans which punctuated Dad 's conversation . |
| 25 | Dalgliesh doubted whether that half-imagined recoil had anything to do with him personally , nor did he find her silence disconcerting . |
| 26 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 27 | However , Maxine informed me that her mother had always described how she had screamed when being bathed as a tiny baby , so she doubted whether we would be able to find a specific incident which could have caused the onset of the phobia . |
| 28 | Also he was worried about a model he had arranged to hire through Mauve , and then doubted whether he could pay the price . |
| 29 | I hoped that he was avoiding us because he felt ashamed of his offer to Ellen , but I doubted whether Matthew McIllvanney had ever felt ashamed of anything . |
| 30 | She doubted whether she could have told the difference if she had n't known . |