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

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1 And I did n't know whether to laugh with pleasure or to cry with pain .
2 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 .
3 Quite often a decision has to be made whether to go for quantity or quality .
4 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 .
5 Before deciding whether to provide for determination by expert rather than by arbitration , it is essential to appreciate the differences between them .
6 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 .
7 Still considering whether to go for microfilm with computer-aided retrieval , or a DIP ( document image processing ) system .
8 But Close , who is considering whether to resign in protest , insisted : ‘ There are two tours this winter by the West Indies .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The AFBD , and probably the LME , will dodge the issue by leaving members separately to decide whether to apply for exemption .
13 It will be up to trusts to decide whether to pay for training and permit time off for it .
14 He said the head of rescue services in each resort chose whether to call on help from Chambery .
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