Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A buyer will be concerned to know details about whether gas is connected ; whether he or she has responsibility for all or any fences or ditches ; whether the property has mains drainage ; whether there is liability to maintain a road at the front of the property ; or whether application for planning permission has been refused in the past .
2 The level of transaction costs , and the scale of third party and other effects , invite speculation about whether management changes could be effected in a less costly and disruptive way .
3 ( Which brings to mind notions of whether Sun will ever offer a cross-licence to Unix System Labs for some reason or another . )
4 A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward .
5 If we imagine the situation at the end of the Miller 's Tale in realistic terms , we can suppose that the divisions amongst the pilgrims in terms of their appreciation of the tale are as likely to reflect different sensibilities to the marked , fabliau language the Miller 's Tale makes use of as shock at the possible moral implications of the tale ( compare the response to the Prioress 's Tale , noted in Chapter 3 ) .
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