Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impartial Guidance : Magistrates are expected to decide whether to grant access to parents , guardians or custodians , and , if they do so , to determine the conditions of access . |
| 2 | The question that people who are forced to decide whether to discard or not are liable to ask is : ‘ What have the students actually lost if these books go ? |
| 3 | Today committee members were meeting to decide whether to close the school down . |
| 4 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 5 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 6 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 7 | A council is meeting to decide whether to chop more than sixteen million pounds off its budget . |
| 8 | ( See Types of Income ) Choices have to be made about what counts as income , and then further decisions are required to determine whether to sue gross income or disposable income , income before or after housing costs , and whether the average used is an arithmetic mean or a ‘ median ’ or mid-point in the distribution . |
| 9 | On 28 February Cork County Council was to meet to decide whether to grant planning permission . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I was left to ponder whether to have healing or not to have healing , and so concerned did I become that in the end , a wise man from the Quakers was summoned to give a judgement of Solomon . |
| 11 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |