Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] whether the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His task was to be to assess whether the Commonwealth could assist with constitutional negotiations . |
| 2 | Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground . |
| 3 | The first part of the research will focus on local authorities ' total expenditure , whilst the second principle objective of the research will be to investigate whether the reforms lead to a change in the pattern of service provision . |
| 4 | But if Chapman 's death is to provoke any analysis it might be to ask whether the Pythons achieved their original aim of breaking the mould of English television comedy , doing away with the studio applause , the guest star , the musical interlude , even on occasion the punchline . |
| 5 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 6 | The first move , therefore , is to see whether the level of the available lighting can be improved without making any radical changes . |
| 7 | The jury 's task is to see whether the duty arose on the facts . |
| 8 | The important point is to diagnose whether the short-fall is due to internal causes or external pressures . |
| 9 | The program 's task , given a diagram like that of Figure 2 , is to discover whether the arrangements of blocks depicted is stable , — if it is not — to predict the movements ( falling , sliding , motion ended by contact with another block ) and the final state of various blocks . |
| 10 | The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language . |
| 11 | The purpose of the investigation is to establish whether the authority should make an application for a court order or exercise any other powers it may have under the Act ( s47(3) ( a ) ) . |
| 12 | It is not stated who is to determine whether the conditions have been observed , or what is to be the consequence of subsequent non-observance . |
| 13 | This Fel test is to determine whether the Ghosts accept the adventurers ' intentions , or whether they remain unhappy about them . |
| 14 | The clearer a goal is , the easier it is to decide whether the goal is attainable , and if it is attainable , how you would go about achieving it . |
| 15 | ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’ |
| 16 | In the case of bivariate regression ( when only two variables are involved ) , one objective of the regression analysis is to learn whether the variable of concern ( i.e. the dependent variable ) , for instance birth weight , does depend on another variable ( i.e. the independent variable ) , say , on maternal age and , if so , what is the nature of the relationship . |
| 17 | Indeed , the fashion in many quarters is to ponder whether the West possesses the discipline and finesse to ‘ manage ’ the USSR 's decline — or perhaps accelerate it . |
| 18 | The first is to ascertain whether the individual wishes to talk about sexual activity . |
| 19 | One way of interpreting this is to ascertain whether the student was in halls or rented accommodation which was only available during term time . |
| 20 | The best rule of thumb is to ask whether the data element has information about it , in other words does it have attributes ? |
| 21 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 22 | The correct approach was to ascertain whether the person who had given the land had pointed out clearly what he intended to be done with it . |
| 23 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |
| 24 | One aspect of this review was to examine whether the MSC 's commitment to an equal opportunities policy was being fulfilled in both the letter and spirit of the agreement . |