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

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1 It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished .
2 Initial assessment to see whether the sufferer has addictive disease at all .
3 The judge found that the manufacturer 's misleading instructions attached to the goods sold by a retailer was a breach of s14(3) , even though the seller himself did not have sufficient technical expertise to know whether the instructions were accurate .
4 ‘ That narrows it down a bit , but we 'd need a forensic scientist to establish whether the threads came from Alain 's slacks or not . ’
5 Study 4 was an attempt to see whether the effects observed in Studies 2 and 3 were specific to the particular stimuli which were used or whether they can also be observed with a wider range of stimuli and a larger number of responses contributing to the ROC curves to improve the reliability of the recognition measures .
6 A Swedish researcher , Malte Andersson , performed an ingenious experiment to see whether the male 's tail had evolved because females showed a sexual preference for long-tailed males .
7 Check your LIFESPAN mail to see whether the approval listings have been produced or not .
8 The acquirer will rely on the warranties to establish whether the business is in proper compliance with those agreements at completion .
9 It will be extremely difficult for even the most experienced adviser to predict whether the reviewing court will accept that the interpretation of a term adopted by the initial decision-maker was right , in the sense of what the reviewing court believes to be the correct interpretation .
10 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 .
11 It allows the psychologist to determine whether the subject has detected a change in a stimulus or can discriminate between two stimuli . )
12 The error , if such it was , was an honest error of judgment , but Classic Cinemas Ltd were committed for trial at the Old Bailey to determine whether the film itself was indeed grossly indecent .
13 In his attempt to determine whether the methods and concepts of ecology and physical geography can contribute effectively to analysis of urban issues in the context of the city as an integrated open system of living things interacting with their physical environment , Douglas ( 1981 ) argues that an attempt must be made to link the city as a habitat or an ecosystem with the city as a social system and he develops an ecosystem approach to the study of cities .
14 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 .
15 It may often be difficult for the parties to assess whether the transaction they are contemplating is a concentration or cooperative in nature .
16 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 .
17 When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round .
18 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 .
19 case of the diagnostic tests this model looks reasonably okay , we have n't got erm significant serial correlation , we have n't breached form , we have reasonably normally distributed residuals , right , test for hetero skilasticity that just a test to see whether the residuals are growing over time , right , hetero skilasticity is where we have non constant , non constant variance of our , of our error term right , and very often you , you find that the variance through the residuals , something like that the residuals will look like that , I think , they 're growing systematically over time , right , these are homo skilastic right , and these are hetero skilastic right , residuals and again we would n't want to have a model of hetero skilastic residuals , right , simply because that violates one of the assumptions on which the blue properties are based .
20 We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age .
21 Given a module owner , charge code , existence string , module name , filename and a flag to indicate whether the module is a package or a product , PI_CREATE_PACK_OR_PROD will request that the module name be reserved in LIFESPAN with the associated user-supplied information .
22 a boolean flag to indicate whether the module being reserved is a package or a product .
23 In February 1987 a mass petition was presented to the Queen asking that a referendum be held in Northern Ireland to determine whether the agreement should continue .
24 If so , a conflict may well arise between the work of the consultants in their capacity as testers of design for the private operators and what they do for the HSE to determine whether the safety case is well established .
25 Additional measurements were also made of liver protein synthesis to determine whether the presence of gastrointestinal pathology affected protein synthesis in this tissue which was not directly affected by the disease .
26 They prefaced their findings by the statement that they applied the objective test to determine whether the vehicle was intended or adapted for use on public roads and they asked the question which was suggested by Lord Parker in Burns v Currell 1963 2QB 433,440 .
27 Here , we will confine ourselves to obtaining all efficient BFSs and , as our first task , we will develop a test to determine whether the BFS corresponding to a given tableau is efficient .
28 It provides a discretion to the judge to consider whether the return is an appropriate order to make in all the circumstances .
29 For example , how is management to determine whether the object of minimizing pollution to the environment or supporting scientific research establishments are objectives supported by a general social consensus and if so which of these should take priority ?
30 The research involves mainly participant observation in and around the temple , supplemented by archival work to determine whether the role and importance of the temple has changed over time .
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