Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] whether a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes careful study to confirm whether a particular sex difference is indeed maintained by male competition or female choice ; but the considerable evidence now available suggests that Darwin was essentially correct . |
| 2 | This was an action by Thorne , a member of the M.T.A. , against the Association to determine whether a demand of a sum of money in lieu of placing a person 's name on the stop list would constitute a demand of money with menaces and without reasonable or probable cause within section 29 ( 1 ) ( i ) of the Larceny Act 1916 . |
| 3 | These are not advised during pregnancy , unless absolutely necessary at full term to ascertain whether a normal delivery is possible . |
| 4 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 5 | In this context Mr. Beloff relied on the decision of the House of Lords in In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 where the question arose whether a journalist had a reasonable excuse under section 178 of the Financial Services Act 1986 to refuse to answer questions put to him by inspectors , having regard to the terms of section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 6 | For instance , Impallomeni was of the view that earlier classical law ignored whether a buyer had notice ( scientia ) of a trust , but in later law jurists such as Papinian did not . |
| 7 | We can now formulate a provisional test to determine whether a deviance is grammatical or semantic ( 'provisional' , because , as we shall see , things are not so simple ) : if the minimal change required to ‘ cure ’ an anomaly in a sentence involves one or more closed set items , then the deviance is grammatical ; if , however , the sentence can most easily be normalised by replacing one or more open set elements , then the deviance is semantic . |
| 8 | He confirmed that Department of Transport consulting engineers would examine the A1(M) and the A66 interchange to consider whether a northbound spur could be built . |
| 9 | Where review is based upon procedural grounds the applicability of such procedural protection should not be placed in jeopardy by the court second guessing whether a hearing would have made a difference . |
| 10 | The question remains whether an investigator equally committed might not perform much the same myth-detecting operation on any considerable body of writing , say the novels of Dickens , or indeed the works of some quite minor writer . |
| 11 | The question remains whether an expert should be liable to a party for damages for the consequences of procedural unfairness . |
| 12 | The question arises whether a subcontract owner-driver is really an independent contractor or , in fact , because he does so much work for a particular haulier , an employee of that haulier . |
| 13 | Once again the question arises whether a man , who persists in believing that a woman consents despite an active demonstration by her that such consent is denied , should have a defence to rape . |
| 14 | Thus it is a question of fact for the coroner to decide whether a death is natural or not natural and it is therefore for him to decide whether an inquest should be held . |
| 15 | On May 24 , 1990 , a law on political parties was passed , requiring parties to register with the Constitutional Tribunal to gain legal status and empowering that body to decide whether a party 's goals or activities were constitutional . |
| 16 | In cases where no request is forthcoming from the suspect , it is for the officer in charge of the investigation to decide whether a parade would be ‘ useful . ’ |
| 17 | Some people think that if a lender refuses a credit application , the applicant has a right to know why ( not just the right to ask whether a credit reference bureau has been used , and if so what is on their file with that bureau ) . |
| 18 | What we need is an objective test that we can apply from the outside to distinguish whether an organism has free will . |
| 19 | BRITAIN 'S new environment minister , Tom King , this week gets the chance to choose whether a piece of derelict land at London 's Elephant and Castle should be used for housing or high-technology industry . |
| 20 | We began this chapter by emphasising that fitness for purpose is the chief factor deciding whether an information product succeeds or fails in a given application . |
| 21 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 22 | In cases of doubt it is for the court to decide whether a witness is an expert or not after considering his qualifications and experience . |
| 23 | The quality of the staff , from matrons to cooks , is probably the biggest single factor determining whether a home has a happy atmosphere , and good staff are hard to get for the demanding , albeit rewarding , job of residential care . |
| 24 | Auditors and users of financial statements should therefore be able to learn some practical lessons from Berg Sons & Co Ltd and Others v Mervyn Hampton Adams and Others , FT 10 July 1992 , in which the High Court considered whether an audit had caused loss . |
| 25 | Of course , you have to wait until the nut has warmed up to savour it , but experiments are currently in progress to determine whether a frozen and thawed Brazil remains easy to deal with . |
| 26 | You can use this function to determine whether a number is positive , negative or zero . |
| 27 | Calvin 's doctrine of election had the consequence that no earthly priesthood could arrogate the authority to determine whether an individual was of the elect . |
| 28 | The argument for seasonally adjusting monthly unemployment figures is that only then can the observer tell whether a given monthly increase in unemployment is the normal variation for that time of year or an unusual rise which policy-makers should be concerned about . |
| 29 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 30 | This is the time when patients are assessed and nurses have an opportunity to decide whether a patient has particular problems which could endanger personal safety . |