Example sentences of "ask [be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | What his solicitor is asking is whether we 're able to go ahead . |
| 2 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 3 | A question worth asking is whether it will be easier to teach competent makers in the first three categories , in which engineers are well represented , enough about the work of the fourth to understand how a company works , or to teach the fourth about the first three to the same standard . |
| 4 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 5 | The first question that has to be asked is whether in fact anything at all needs to be done . |
| 6 | The question now being asked is whether one of the effects of the new technology might be to lead employers in general to take an increasingly short-term view about employment , irrespective of an economic recession . |
| 7 | The question to be asked is whether your 4 cleaners can clean 30 rooms in 5 hours at 45 minutes per room . |
| 8 | In contract or tort , for example , the first question to be asked is whether the plaintiff has suffered some legally recognized wrong at the hands of the defendant . |
| 9 | Skynner says the question he is most frequently asked is whether therapy has not dampened Cleese 's power of comic invention : is a happier Cleese not a duller one ? |
| 10 | A first question to be asked is whether the difficulty of the questions was the same for the parallel tests within the limits of precision for tests of this length and with the size of the sample of pupils . |
| 11 | The first basic question to be asked is whether theorists understand the concept of social representations to apply only to particular sons of society , or do they intend the concept to be a universal one ? |
| 12 | Perhaps the more specific question to be asked is whether the charges of possession with intent were brought solely for the purpose of retaining the applicants in custody . |
| 13 | Depending upon the existing context surrounding the relationship between the debtor and the surety , the question to be asked is whether the conduct of the creditor has fallen short in any respect which would amount to unconscionable disregard for the predictable vulnerability of the surety to the misfeasance or influence of the debtor . |
| 14 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 15 | Well the specific question I asked is whether you 've quantified in percentage terms erm perhaps Group Captain you could give us an indication of how it has affected it ? |
| 16 | Another important question to ask is whether the adviser has professional indemnity cover and for how much . |
| 17 | The question we now have to ask is whether the equilibrium path converges to a steady state . |
| 18 | The first question we need to ask is whether there is a steady-state solution . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 20 | So the next question he asked was whether , to protect the young , sows would willingly accept controls as an alternative to being forcibly confined . |
| 21 | Perhaps this is a question all potential Members should ask is whether their party intend to replace this farce with a more constructive alternative . |
| 22 | A second question we can ask is whether the visual word-recognition system treats the uppercase , lowercase and handwritten version of a word as different ( which would happen if the system operated at a relatively concrete level ) . |
| 23 | The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter . |