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

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1 There are also many potential avenues for prevention through the vulnerability factors , and it would seem important to discover whether in practice vulnerability can be modified through preventive programmes .
2 I think it is quite important to establish whether in fact the County had information at their disposal which would have enabled them to act sooner in this case . ’
3 The NUS is taking an unprecedented risk in arguing for regular ballots of students to choose whether to affiliate .
4 The NUS is taking an unprecedented risk in arguing for regular ballots of students to choose whether to affiliate .
5 My experience in Texas and with other large contemporary prison systems leads me to wonder whether in future the best we can hope for is to obtain some kind of a mix of the two , and avoid the worse features of each .
6 He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant .
7 Imagine booking an airplane ticket and trying to decide whether to book APEX now , or to wait until plans are firmer .
8 Cranmer , with that desire to proffer advice on affairs of state which often overcomes academics after a good dinner , suggested a new approach ; the divines of the English and European universities should be consulted , he urged , for they were just as competent as any cardinals to advise whether in light of the Scriptures it was unlawful for a man to be married to his deceased brother 's wife .
9 Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise .
10 The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period .
11 I 'm just trying , looking through your submission to see whether in fact you have produced a table which showed the possible land provision based on thirty four workers to the hectare .
12 ‘ I 'm not questioning your judgement but I have to ask whether in view of what followed you have had any doubts ? ’
13 My — though not necessarily her — interpretation of this observation leads me to ask whether in fact the capacity to show LTP might not be a purely artefactual phenomenon , which occurs only in animals which have been reared in the highly restricted environment of a research laboratory ?
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