Example sentences of "[v-ing] whether [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when evening comes does she lift the lid a chink and peer out , checking whether darkness has yet come . |
| 2 | There is a totally painless way of establishing whether summer is really over , and that is to fill in the following checklist of autumnal signs as they occur . |
| 3 | Wondering whether English was still taught in schools , she commented on her 114th birthday : ‘ Many of the people I hear on the telephone do n't even know how to speak the language properly . ’ |
| 4 | She started wondering whether permission might not be sought from the parents for her to give private tuition to Matilda after school . |
| 5 | They 'll be sitting there , probably in the lounge , wondering whether Father 's going to feed them anything or just give an impromptu lecture on cancer of the colon or tapeworms , when he 'll sidle up to somebody , look round to make sure everybody 's watching , then in a conspiratorial stage-whisper say : ‘ See that door over there ? |
| 6 | So I was wondering whether FACE readers would write to me to help me with my research . |
| 7 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
| 8 | The continuing use after that time of recognition is a time of testing whether control is possible or whether it has indeed been lost . |
| 9 | A few days after his mother died , a friend recalls that he gazed lovingly at a photograph of his mother , while pondering whether life continues after death . |
| 10 | From the economic point of view , the problem is that in most cases the US antitrust process is concerned with deciding whether conduct has been illegal , rather than with the appraisal of the economic consequences of whatever conduct may have taken place . |
| 11 | The Appeal Committee will hear oral argument before deciding whether leave should be given . |
| 12 | The criteria which seem to be applied by both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in deciding whether leave should be granted are ( Blom-Cooper and Drewry , 1972 ) : |
| 13 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 14 | It is hoped that the work will contribute to policy : in establishing the different senses of environmental degradation that tourism may engender ; in considering whether tourism in fact has played a role in generating a heightened green awareness ; and in demonstrating the diverse kinds of environment that visitors expect even in an area of outstanding ‘ natural ’ beauty as in the Lake District . |
| 15 | As regards financial reporting , The Stock Exchange is considering whether balance-sheet information should be included in interim reports , provided the unaudited nature of the figures is explained . |
| 16 | In practice , the nationalized industries are subject to Whitehall and civil servants often re-examine the major management decisions ( and some minor ones ) in case points of principle arise , in particular considering whether investment and pricing policies are satisfactory from the ministry 's point of view . |
| 17 | We are simply questioning whether building operatives are doing the job properly and whether quality control is high enough . |
| 18 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 19 | Well , it was a choice between asking whether life is just one long , or short , colossal fiasco , or whether you still wank . |
| 20 | It would not be unreasonable for the Government to start a national debate asking whether freedom of association among groups of employees was any longer relevant . |
| 21 | Another way of asking whether cloze gets close to measuring comprehension is to consider what would happen if the sentences in a passage were randomly reordered . |
| 22 | Where Chartier went further was in asking whether nobility was something which came to a man by virtue of his birth ( and could therefore be inherited ) or whether it was accorded in recognition of merit ? |
| 23 | Maybe we should be asking whether Speed should n't be sidelined for a spell , as he is a bit anonymous at times . |
| 24 | These agents were given the old familiar name for obscure virulent materials , virus , and presented considerable difficulties because they could be detected only by infecting susceptible species and observing whether disease resulted . |
| 25 | Estimates based on demographic pressures , advances in medical technology and the costs of implementing new government policies ( such as the introduction of new screening programmes ) also have their drawbacks , but they represent a pragmatic way of estimating whether funding has been adequate to keep pace with demand pressures . |
| 26 | Yet there is some difficulty in knowing whether Mill really meant to say anything very different from Bentham . |
| 27 | Invariably it is an ineffective communication as it antagonizes and also leaves the subject not knowing whether help would otherwise have been offered spontaneously . |
| 28 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 29 | As diabetic patients have little feedback on their daily lipid concentrations we aimed at determining whether self monitoring of plasma triglyceride concentrations improved lipid concentrations ( and perhaps indirectly glucose concentrations ) in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus . |
| 30 | The [ draft ] FRS contains requirements for determining whether capital instruments should be accounted for as liabilities . |