Example sentences of "whether [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Still considering whether to go for microfilm with computer-aided retrieval , or a DIP ( document image processing ) system .
2 Quite often a decision has to be made whether to go for quantity or quality .
3 Ceolwulf left England himself in 796 in the company of the bishop of London ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) but whether to go on pilgrimage or into exile is not known and he died the same year ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) .
4 You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards .
5 You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards .
6 The women worry about babies and whether to have them , or about men and whether to go to bed with them : always the sign of a male screenwriter of limited imagination ( though Kasdan 's wife Meg gets co-writer credit ) .
7 He should read the treaty : we are part of all the decisions on economic and monetary union , with the additional point that , unlike our European Community partners , we have the choice , when the decision is made , whether to go into stage 3 .
8 There are a number of matters which it will need to take into account : ( 1 ) The offeror must consider whether to proceed by way of a takeover offer or a Court Scheme .
9 Before deciding whether to provide for determination by expert rather than by arbitration , it is essential to appreciate the differences between them .
10 It was a toss up whether to try for acceptance in the front row ranks , or work towards qualifying for the back row .
11 Channel 4 chairman Sir Richard Attenborough said later they faced an impossible dilemma — ‘ whether to reveal identities we had undertaken to protect , at risk to human life , or whether to come into conflict with the law . ’
12 If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday 's trip to Leeds , Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country .
13 In sum , it should be possible to draw up a list of factors relevant to a decision whether to embark on re-investigation .
14 But Close , who is considering whether to resign in protest , insisted : ‘ There are two tours this winter by the West Indies .
15 Even if you succeed in building up a good practice as a junior your troubles will not be at an end , because at that point in your career you will have to decide whether to apply for silk .
16 The AFBD , and probably the LME , will dodge the issue by leaving members separately to decide whether to apply for exemption .
17 They believe that no part of the money should be used to finance Sizewell C , proposals for which are still on the drawing board awaiting a decision on whether to apply for planning permission .
18 There is also the question of whether to buy on credit or to pay cash .
19 Meanwhile , Unix System Laboratories Inc is probably going to have to make a business decision about whether to buy in Motif from the outside .
20 The intruder is able to recognise the owner because it smells the same as its mark , and so can decide whether to challenge for ownership or simply move on .
21 He invited them to decide by referendum whether to opt for autonomy , with full French support , or for independence outside the community .
22 No decision has been made on whether to renegotiate with EASE , sign up with one of the several other electronic systems now operating , or , like County Auctions , develop its own system .
23 End 1993 : Governments to decide unanimously whether to deal with asylum policy as a Community issue .
24 Meanwhile bureaux are advised to decide independently whether to cooperate with MSC schemes .
25 SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office , Stephen Solarz , the loquacious representative for New York 's 13th congressional district , is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president .
26 We do not have to decide whether to keep in bulk or alternatively to sample , particular instance papers which electronic data handling techniques now make potentially useful to the historian in ways that they simply were not before .
27 He said the head of rescue services in each resort chose whether to call on help from Chambery .
28 Having become deadlocked along party lines over whether to call for censure , the committee decided instead to present the case against Cranston on the Senate floor on Nov. 21 , a rare step for discipline short of formal censure .
29 To decide whether to live in Bali you have to imagine the conditions with as much sensuous and emotional vividness as possible , and will learn more from photographs , music records , documentary films of dance , impressionistic writing , the talk of enthusiastic or disillusioned people who have been there already , than from strictly factual propositions .
30 And I did n't know whether to laugh with pleasure or to cry with pain .
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