Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] whether [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there remains much confusion in this area about the means by which the courts test whether the refusal of an individual landlord is reasonable or unreasonable : |
| 2 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 3 | According to criminologists I consulted , doubts remain whether the Act has entirely remedied the situation ( magistrates and police are not always meticulous in determining offenders ' ages ) , but it has certainly alleviated it considerably . |
| 4 | The acquirer will rely on the warranties to establish whether the business is in proper compliance with those agreements at completion . |
| 5 | Such a map of predicted pollution concentrations reveals whether the proposed emission control programme will result in compliance with the air quality standard for a particular pollutant or group of pollutants . |
| 6 | Cars demonstrate whether the child understands their symbolic use and they are not just things with wheels that can be spun . |
| 7 | In particular , it is necessary to go beyond the examples of close relationships to political parties to consider whether the positions some groups enjoy in relation to the political system owe nothing to particular party allegiances . |
| 8 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 9 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |
| 10 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 11 | It may often be difficult for the parties to assess whether the transaction they are contemplating is a concentration or cooperative in nature . |
| 12 | For pupils with temporary problems , it will be for headteachers to decide whether the National Curriculum provisions should be modified temporarily . |
| 13 | We acknowledge that there are well-known problems with the domestic rate system in the UK , but leave it to readers to discern whether the emphasis on constraining local authority growth warrants this change of taxation . |
| 14 | Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed . |
| 15 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 16 | Najibullah proposed that a referendum be held in both government and mujaheddin-controlled areas to determine whether a ceasefire should be implemented . |
| 17 | First , the law ( Companies Act 1985 , Schedule 4 , paragraph 36A , as amended ) now requires companies to disclose whether the accounts are prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards , and to disclose particulars of any material departure from those standards and the reasons for it ( the relevant standards are the SSAPs and FRSs of the Accounting Standards Board ) . |
| 18 | The Court referred the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions to see whether the students involved should be prosecuted for breaching earlier court orders . |
| 19 | Although it may be important for sentencing purposes to know whether the conduct was deliberate or otherwise , it does not affect liability , so long as one or other of the conditions is satisfied . |
| 20 | Messages indicate whether the card is correctly placed , or in which of the four principal direction(s) it is out of position . |
| 21 | But observers question whether the board 's taciturn general manager , Laurence Peterken , was not the man in the driving seat . |
| 22 | Another troublesome shoulder , that belonging to Dean Richards , will be X-rayed within the next 10 days to determine whether the Leicester No. 8 has any chance of playing for England against Fiji on 4 November . |
| 23 | Privately , dissatisfied participants questioned whether the organiser — a New York company that sells advertising space in journals , publishes minor journals and headhunts biotechnologists — was truly qualified to assess the scientific merit of the work to be presented . |
| 24 | His previous attempt on the world record was abandoned last year in Glasgow after health officials questioned whether the heat source would be powerful enough to heat the curry all the way through . |
| 25 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 26 | The European Commission will have to review and approve or otherwise IBM Corp 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA : it has four weeks to decide whether the alliance could harm competition in Community markets ; if it has ‘ serious doubts ’ about the transaction , it will then launch a deeper , four-month probe . |
| 27 | The forms also ask workers and carers to check whether a child knows how to cross the road safely or can make an emergency phone call . |
| 28 | Nobody trusted the geologists ' claims that this was simply a series of experiments to see whether the underground structure was suitable in principle : everybody believed that the waste dump would be excavated under their patch . |
| 29 | One of the questions asked whether the US-born DINA agent Michael Townley , already sentenced by US courts for his role in the bombing , was a CIA agent . |
| 30 | The questions remain whether an arbitrator is obliged to follow the litigation practice and whether an expert is prohibited from doing so . |