Example sentences of "[verb] whether [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who wanted to live together , and wanted to have a child , but they wanted to know whether they would have equal rights as parents |
| 2 | For them to know whether they can do this , they need to have full information on the hardware you are using . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | I wanted to know whether it would affect the pH of my soil . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You want to know whether he can survive his sentence ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You want to know whether he can live through fourteen years in the camps , whether for our son that is possible ? ’ |
| 12 | He was wanting to know whether he could expect you for lunch . ’ |
| 13 | He consulted diviners when Anne Boleyn became pregnant , anxious to know whether he could expect a male heir . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you like to know whether I would find a tracing of your cock arousing ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Secondly , one would very much doubt whether one would find that all organizations aligned themselves neatly on to national patterns . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But we all sat there , we did n't know whether we ought to come out or not ! |
| 22 | Do I I mean I do n't know whether we 'll keep the individuals on the next one , cos people did talk about group work . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether we 'll get a you know , any places or not . |
| 24 | But I do n't know whether we 'll get it or not . |
| 25 | we ordered ten so I do n't know whether we 'll get , maybe if we 'd ordered two we might of got them , but er , ordering ten is a lot ai n't it ? |
| 26 | We are obliged to send the details to the Crown Prosecution Service , and in six months ’ time we shall know whether we can prosecute . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether we should bring those plants in tonight because erm they reckon it 's going to become frosty those ones that we have n't planted yet and the hanging baskets . |
| 28 | For example , we do not know whether we should attribute Stevenage 's low casualty rates ( 3.9 per 1,000 population in 1979 compared to 6.5 for British towns as a whole ) to its pedestrianised town centre , its extensive cycleway system or some other reason . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know whether we will have to pay corkage . ’ |
| 30 | If it 's a works van tipping rubbish , they 'll charge them more , but you 'll have to pay , I do n't know whether they 'll do it by the load or by the bin bag or , what , you 'll have to pay to dump your rubbish . |