Example sentences of "whether they should [be] " in BNC.

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1 It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month .
2 The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place .
3 That is , it is not a matter of switching them off , but of whether they should be switched on either initially or again after suitable tests have been carried out .
4 Think about whether they should be changed or simplified further .
5 A special board of psychiatrists and other professionals should decide whether they should be released .
6 Discuss the shape of containers and whether they should be full or nearly full .
7 With positive encouragement from the DoH , many units are now considering what type of evaluation they should be introducing , not whether they should be introducing it at all .
8 However it is not clear whether they should be applied to the complete list of allowable words , or to the list of candidate strings , or indeed to some subset of either .
9 For the retail co-operatives , it posed the question whether their employees too were to be paid a bonus , thus reducing the amount available for distribution on purchases , or whether they should be paid the rate for the job .
10 In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime .
11 In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime .
12 I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court .
13 Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers .
14 But again there is ambivalence over whether they should be encouraged into the countryside : to the farmer and conservationist alike a vision is conjured up of marauding inner-city teenagers and other undesirable aliens , wreaking havoc in an environment best kept well away from ‘ those kinds of people ’ .
15 Whether they should be or not , accountants need to give careful consideration to the impact that a cost-leadership strategy would have on their practices .
16 We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high .
17 The fact that investment trusts do not continually take in new funds and channel them to ultimate borrowers obviously raises the question of whether they should be considered as financial intermediaries at all .
18 Opinion has been divided on whether they should be removed suddenly or gradually .
19 First and most fundamentally , are the members of the Trade sufficiently aware of coming new generations of information products to have a view on whether they should be selling them ?
20 There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference .
21 In Southampton in the 1450s , when there was considerable bitterness in civic politics over the attitude to be taken to aliens , whether they should be welcomed for bringing wealth to the town , or attacked as intruders , marriage could lead a man to switch his allegiance from one group to another .
22 While there can be no objection in principle to allowing foreigners access to the English courts , it is doubtful whether they should be permitted to recover damages for defamatory words which may freely circulate in the country where the plaintiff 's reputation would be most affected .
23 There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some .
24 As far as I know , they have been er certainly have been erm involved in most of the ballots so far , but I know there is a discussion going on about whether they should be the .
25 During the next 18 months the no traffic zones will be carefully monitored to establish whether they should be permanently enforced .
26 The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers .
27 before they went back , and er , I ca n't remember whether I told them to get one or whether they should be up for Easter .
28 Whether suggestions should be restricted to procedures or whether they should be general company-wide suggestions about everything and anything and the latter , who is responsible for sealing the suggestion , actioning it and making it move forward .
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