Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] whether the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 2 | One aspect of this review was to examine whether the MSC 's commitment to an equal opportunities policy was being fulfilled in both the letter and spirit of the agreement . |
| 3 | This Fel test is to determine whether the Ghosts accept the adventurers ' intentions , or whether they remain unhappy about them . |
| 4 | The important point is to diagnose whether the short-fall is due to internal causes or external pressures . |
| 5 | The purpose of the investigation is to establish whether the authority should make an application for a court order or exercise any other powers it may have under the Act ( s47(3) ( a ) ) . |
| 6 | The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language . |
| 7 | Indeed , the fashion in many quarters is to ponder whether the West possesses the discipline and finesse to ‘ manage ’ the USSR 's decline — or perhaps accelerate it . |
| 8 | The correct approach was to ascertain whether the person who had given the land had pointed out clearly what he intended to be done with it . |
| 9 | In the case of bivariate regression ( when only two variables are involved ) , one objective of the regression analysis is to learn whether the variable of concern ( i.e. the dependent variable ) , for instance birth weight , does depend on another variable ( i.e. the independent variable ) , say , on maternal age and , if so , what is the nature of the relationship . |
| 10 | The best rule of thumb is to ask whether the data element has information about it , in other words does it have attributes ? |
| 11 | The jury 's task is to see whether the duty arose on the facts . |
| 12 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |