Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to know if the machine can be converted to full time four wheel drive , There are no real advantages to permanent four wheel drive but , if you wish to , use the transfer box from a 1948–50 Series One . |
| 2 | It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob . |
| 3 | Dave happened to take a telephone call from a British Rail official who wanted to know if the Bank could provide a counselling service for workers facing redundancy . |
| 4 | To establish if a pupil can be sustained within St Augustine 's ( to date only one panel declined to accept a pupil ) . |
| 5 | Clients contemplating determination of an issue by an expert will wish to know whether a decision can be reached which will be final , and , if not , on what grounds they or the other party can mount a challenge ; whether they can sue the expert ; and whether they can avoid cost and formality . |
| 6 | The data so produced may be of use to parsing systems , whenever it becomes necessary to know whether a noun must have a certain feature , not merely that it may have it . |
| 7 | The actual grammar rules and certain of the features employed are different ( e.g. sentential grammars have no feature to indicate whether a word can be further inflected ) but the underlying principles and mechanisms are similar . |
| 8 | A system of flags is also stored here to indicate whether the word must begin with a capital to form a valid word , if the word is a common mis-spelling and a flag detailing whether the word can begin a compound stored in the compound tree . |
| 9 | The electricity board should always be contacted , however , to confirm the availability of the supply and the cost of connection , to establish whether a substation will be required and any delays expected in meeting the project programme . |
| 10 | The study , carried out by Shetland Health Board and the Environmental Health ( Scotland ) Unit , was set up to establish whether the spill could have long-term health effects . |
| 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 | They are very difficult to destroy although the enemy may try to attack them with other engines of war , large monsters or magic for example . |
| 13 | Fokin agreed to continue to serve until a replacement could be appointed . |
| 14 | As one course followed another we began to wonder whether the meal would ever end . |
| 15 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 16 | Mining companies all over the world set up consortia to study ways of mining the manganese nodules on the floor of the deep oceans , but have been unwilling to proceed until the world can agree on laws to cover deep sea mining . |
| 17 | Coincidentally they received a phone call from a double glazing company to see if a rep could call round . |
| 18 | For this reason very few unassisted clients will be in a position to commission a report just to see if a case can be made out . |
| 19 | In an ideal environment all the people within a single organisation would use the same software but as the ideal is seldom achieved it is worth checking to see if a package can at least handle the industry standard DIF ( Data Interchange Format ) file format . |
| 20 | Madam Speaker there are a number of points in that supplementary question , let me deal first of all with on G C H Q we 've done exactly what the I L O requested us to do , we 've had er discussions with the civil service unions to see if a solution could be found . |
| 21 | He and fellow Gloucestershire MPs are meeting councillors this weekend to see if a solution can be found . |
| 22 | Every day Topaz watched to see if the Sister would fall off her perch , but she never did . |
| 23 | Good to see you checked to see if the wife would be there , okay pretty pointless going through the whole process if , if she has all the facts |
| 24 | The company has already beached about 150 000 tonnes of tin-bearing sand , processing it in a pilot plant to see if the technique will work . |
| 25 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 26 | Further tests are under way at Baltimore , in California and at Seattle 's cancer research centre , to see if the treatment can be repeated on other patients , and may eventually include some Aids sufferers who do not have cancers . |
| 27 | The industry is waiting to see if the facelift will have any effect , although critics say the changes are largely cosmetic and do n't go far enough . |
| 28 | He cleaned off the growth from three sides of the rectangular pool and left one end untouched , to see if the weed would grow again . |
| 29 | Once an ambulance crew has given initial aid to a seriously injured patient , a paramedic will consult a specialist at Stoke to see if the person should be taken there . |
| 30 | I even practised a few variations at home to see if the system could be improved . |