Example sentences of "[verb] whether [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to know whether they would be prepared to take payment for what they produced after everyone else had taken a cut . |
| 2 | who wanted to live together , and wanted to have a child , but they wanted to know whether they would have equal rights as parents |
| 3 | For them to know whether they can do this , they need to have full information on the hardware you are using . |
| 4 | We are demanding to know whether they can function as independent variables in the explanations of events and states of affairs , or whether they are always dependent ones . |
| 5 | He wanted to know whether we would monitor the introduction of the new disability benefits and their impact in policy terms and with regard to their administration . |
| 6 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 7 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
| 8 | I wanted to know whether it would affect the pH of my soil . |
| 9 | And you want to know whether it would be more expensive . |
| 10 | Lawyer D's client ( the organisation ) wanted to know whether it could release the tenancy on the land without the consent of the surviving partner ( the son ) . |
| 11 | We want to know whether you 'd be prepared to go to England . ’ |
| 12 | I think that the House needs to know whether he will abolish fund holding in the teeth of opposition from virtually every GP and from the British Medical Association . |
| 13 | ‘ You want to know whether he can survive his sentence ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You want to know whether he can live through fourteen years in the camps , whether for our son that is possible ? ’ |
| 15 | He was wanting to know whether he could expect you for lunch . ’ |
| 16 | He consulted diviners when Anne Boleyn became pregnant , anxious to know whether he could expect a male heir . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you like to know whether I would find a tracing of your cock arousing ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ My sister 's getting married next week and I wanted to know whether there 'd be any chance of a spot of leave . ’ |
| 19 | He wanted to know whether she would like him to make her a cup of tea or whether they might wait until his wife returned from a committee meeting . |
| 20 | 5–12–1877 " It was considered whether it would not be for the advantage of the congregation to hold the services on the Sabbath in the school house during the winter months where they could have the comfort of a fire . |
| 21 | It remains , however , to be considered whether it would be possible to simulate the characteristics of nationhood at federal level by establishing there the appropriate mechanisms . |
| 22 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 23 | You 've never considered whether I might be bored stiff meeting your work colleagues . |
| 24 | Respondents were asked to say whether they had actually received assistance from relatives at the time when their own children were born , and also to indicate whether they would turn to relatives for support in three hypothetical situations , of varying degrees of seriousness : to borrow tools or materials ; if the respondent and/or his wife were ill for a couple of days ; if illness lasted several weeks . |
| 25 | It 's not , it 's not his summing up , it 's just a point of clarification to indicate whether he may or may not accept this . |
| 26 | The quoted comments of the NCO are too short to indicate whether he might in fact justify his comments in this way , if he were personally accused of prejudice . |
| 27 | Secondly , one would very much doubt whether one would find that all organizations aligned themselves neatly on to national patterns . |
| 28 | Sceptics may doubt whether anyone would read it but our survey shows that viewers take PEBs seriously and rate them only slightly less useful than news broadcasts for helping decide how to vote ( though much less useful than news broadcasts for providing information ) . |
| 29 | But even when we can interpret the signals , we can not predict whether they will fall in love at first sight , remain indifferent , or loathe each other . |
| 30 | Erm , I suppose I do n't know whether we ought , whether we should mention it here , erm , the , the National A G M is a future event really is n't it ? |