Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ran out of money , and they 've had to be supplemented since to get the job finished . |
| 2 | that he 's wanted to know whether to destroy the negatives and things does he , yes ? |
| 3 | Patricia added : ‘ I did n't know whether to take a case or not but my solicitor , Rosemary Nelson and barrister Elaine Kelly , were very helpful and supportive . |
| 4 | Although Blake did n't know whether to believe the Doctor , he walked with the Time Lord , following the hideous apparitions through the streets of Whitechapel . |
| 5 | I do n't know whether to have a brick wall or whether |
| 6 | so I did n't know whether to have a brick edge er a brick wall |
| 7 | And this afternoon , do n't know whether to have an exploratory operation on knee in Huntingdon |
| 8 | And then I can ah well I 'll try a I do n't know whether to try a mouse or a MyMouse . |
| 9 | Sefton council will consider whether to sanction the operation . |
| 10 | If the child is in police protection the authority should consider whether to ask the police to apply for an EPO on its behalf ( s47(3) ( c ) and see Chapter 13 , 1(d) ) . |
| 11 | Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) . |
| 12 | Cleveland police committee will discuss whether to support the schemes tomorrow . |
| 13 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 14 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 15 | There is no greater achievement in geographical Research remaining to be done than to lift the veil from before this unpenetrable and mysterious Continent . |
| 16 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 17 | He has struggled since to meet the £3,500 monthly loan repayments and works 15 hours a day with his team of four in Aston , Birmingham . |
| 18 | Following the Children 's Act 1975 , all adoptees are entitled to a copy of their original birth certificate at 18 years of age and can choose whether to initiate a trace ( Table 4 ) . |
| 19 | In most cases you can choose whether to print the pattern at actual size or scaled to a percentage of actual size . |
| 20 | Here a solicitor would work in a department with several others and can choose whether to remain a generalist handling a range of legal problems , or to specialise in a specific area of law such as employment law or intellectual property . |
| 21 | * Read the last page of the book or article : with any luck it will summarise what went before , so you can choose whether to read the whole volume . |
| 22 | The immersion heater can be mounted vertically or horizontally ( depending on the design of the cylinder ) ; it may be possible to fit two heaters or a dual-element heater so that you can choose whether to heat the whole cylinder ( for a bath ) or just the top part ( for washing up and hand washing ) . |
| 23 | After consideration of the first set of results , it would be decided whether to abandon the material or to investigate further . |
| 24 | The doubts were raised by councillor Brian Timms , who said he had read a press report stating that the council had not yet decided whether to support the scheme . |
| 25 | One insider believes the COSE firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 26 | One insider believes that the Common Open Software Environment firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT : ‘ Do they want to solve the problem is the question ? ’ asks the source , who is afraid that ‘ systems management was a COSE epitaph . ’ |
| 27 | He maintains he 's doing ‘ a lot less blood and guts ’ although that 's difficult to believe as he chats of chopping off an arm of a ‘ volunteer ’ from the audience , although theatregoers may escape being sawn in half : ‘ I am not decided whether to saw a young lady from the audience or myself . |
| 28 | How is it decided whether to buy an item or to make it in-house ? |
| 29 | A decision will also have to be made whether to use a number of smaller local distributors or a small number of large national distributors . |
| 30 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |