Example sentences of "[to-vb] if the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , to know if the actual pollution concentrations are in compliance with the standards , an air pollution monitoring system is required . |
| 2 | They want to know if the Prime Minister knew . ’ |
| 3 | I told him it was important to my defence to know if the old man had been blindfolded . |
| 4 | The doctor will want to know if the sexual partner has any symptoms and in particular whether he , too , has attended a clinic and , if so , what the diagnosis was and whether any treatment was given . |
| 5 | Ian Frank , representing one of the pressure groups against the plan , wanted to know if the National Grid barrister was actually a barrister . |
| 6 | To discover if the inhibitory effect of indomethacin is because of its ability to scavenge HOCl , we evaluated the effect of indomethacin on HOCl production . |
| 7 | There will be much worse to come if the German government decides , as it may , to pull out of the European Fighter Aircraft project on which Deutsche Aerospace was counting for future revenues . |
| 8 | For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years . |
| 9 | Studies will try to establish if the infected cow had been given English cattle feed from ground up ruminant carcasses — banned in Britain in 1988 and in France in 1989 . |
| 10 | ‘ Trevor has told me he 's prepared to sell if the right offer comes along . ’ |
| 11 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 12 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |
| 13 | She knew that the Pitts were going to stay with the police , go down to the river to wait if the Chief Superintendent let them , but she did not want to . |
| 14 | The seat is one of several in Rajasthan which the Janata Dal can not afford to lose if the combined opposition forces are to oust Mr Gandhi from power . |
| 15 | I 've been there and still put my hand up to see if the cotton-wool pad is slipping . |
| 16 | ‘ It is right , I think , to look to see if the private sector can make a significant contribution . ’ |
| 17 | Thus the pattern we would expect to see if the lexical procedure is damaged but the non-lexical procedure remains intact — if these procedures really are separate — is good reading of regular words and non-words with bad reading of exception words . |
| 18 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 19 | Such interviews are particularly important to assess character and to see if the interpersonal chemistry is right . |
| 20 | It was intended to see if the total programme of instruction-orientation , introduction and advanced courses in information retrieval affected the pattern of use of the library over a period of five years . |
| 21 | For this reason the man is asked to provide two semen samples for examination about three months after the operation , to see if the seminal fluid is free of sperm . |
| 22 | Because he is waiting to see if the anticipatory breach turns into non-performance in fact , he is not expected to buy any replacement goods until the date of actual non-performance . |
| 23 | Individuals may sometimes rent a stall on a ‘ one-off ’ basis , usually by waiting until a particular time ( eg 11.00 ) to see if the regular trader turns up . |
| 24 | I have now bought a Tesoro Laser B1 ( that has both auto and manual ground adjust ) and will be returning to the site to see if the extra performance of this machine turns up any more finds . |
| 25 | She was thinking about Donna later , as she walked down the ward to see if the new patient had arrived . |
| 26 | One strategy is to take a statement from them and tender it under the Civil Evidence Act to see if the other side serve a counter notice requiring them to be called . |
| 27 | Without waiting to see if the young servant materialised , Theodora and Treadwell stepped through the open door and into the freedom of the outside world . |
| 28 | There was a faint rattle and a metallic clink from high above and Grant sank back into a crouch , waiting with baited breath to see if the slight noise had alerted anyone . |
| 29 | Since union recognition and union density are both positively related to establishment size ( see Daniel/Millward , 1983 ) , we tested to see if the above results were sustained when size was controlled for . |
| 30 | The imposter then declares himself , and it is interesting to see if the judicial process has succeeded in ascertaining the truth of the matter . |