Example sentences of "[verb] whether it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know whether it was done by Glynn himself or by an outsider . |
| 2 | We need to know whether it was from the Mail on Sunday or the Sunday Times , from the television , all those sort of things and it 's just a simple form , they tick a tick a box . |
| 3 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |
| 4 | You 'd say , rubbish I did n't even want to know whether it was say two thousand two hundred and twenty six . |
| 5 | The Cabinet first considered whether it was their duty to advise Parliament that the abolition of the death penalty would involve serious risks to law and order . |
| 6 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 7 | One must doubt whether it was the Israeli ‘ government 's intention to introduce into the West Bank the Israeli norm of democratic elections ’ since the authorities deeply regretted the outcome , and did not repeat the experiment . |
| 8 | And that was about every other day she used to bake about ooh I forget whether it was fourteen pound or twenty eight pound of flour she us . |
| 9 | Er I do n't know whether it were the young lad that comes in , or whether it was Jes that were telling me . |
| 10 | In fact he did n't know whether it were a child , he says you do n't know when it 's dark . |
| 11 | I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion . |
| 12 | We 'll never know whether it was Tony 's plan or David 's plan . |
| 13 | Michael , Managing Director at the Brewery has one of them but does not know whether it was Lance Henly 's , but is delighted to learn that it could have been . |
| 14 | I do n't know whether it was for devilment but Gary says , ‘ No , I do n't think so . ’ |
| 15 | When I cried out , I did n't know whether it was with pain or pleasure . |
| 16 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether it was because I ignored him that he threw the drink over me , ’ she added . |
| 18 | Now I knew he was connected with sport but I did n't know whether it was cricket or football . |
| 19 | I do n't know whether it was the mountain scenery , the flowers , the sunshine , the company or the singing , but for some reason everything gelled that day . |
| 20 | He felt the Italian boy was going to have a go at him but I do n't know whether it was a punch or a head-butt . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know whether it was because he realised how hard it 'd be for us to get enough for both of us , or whether he knew he was off his head and needed someone around who was n't , y'know what I mean , to look after the kids and sort things out , like . |
| 22 | I did n't know whether it was fair to expect Toby to come and visit me . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether it was because I was in there for drugs . |
| 24 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether it was 1915 or 1916 . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether it was inspired intuition but he pinched the grating on the day of the Darrowby Gala . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether it was a return , I forgot that but er , it , it was , it was four for four rides for threepence and er , that 's if you 're down the town you know , that 's quite a few really , for threepence . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether it was the overpowering sense of being imprisoned in a world of cloud and rock , the wild remoteness of it and the everlasting bludgeoning of the wind , but everything seemed to take longer than expected . |
| 30 | We do not even know whether it was deposited in that great Ptolemaic foundation , the library of Alexandria . |