Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] whether [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The results are expected to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs .
2 TableCurve can calculate the data 's best fit to one of its equations , or the plot of the data can be previewed to decide whether any data needs to be edited or excluded , or weighting factors applied prior to processing .
3 Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of
4 This effectively established a matrix on the database ( Fig 11.10 ) so that an annotation could be made to indicate whether each item of information , in relation to the activity described , was relevant to the functional groups that existed in the EPH , ie the Officers ( OICs ) , Clerical Assistant ( Clerk ) , Care Assistants ( CA ) , Domestic Assistants ( DA ) , the Cook , and the Gardener/handyman ( Gdnr ) .
5 With a study designed the way this one was there is very little that can be done to decide whether this relatively uninteresting possibility is the major factor determining the results , the studies in the remainder of this thesis are , however , designed to address this problem .
6 After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another .
7 My favourite statistic of the match , however , is that six of the England team have the middle initial A. I can not be bothered to check whether this has ever happened before , but I doubt it .
8 Scrutiny by the Courts.The courts may be asked to consider whether delegated legislation is ultra vires the enabling act .
9 This will be investigated to see whether this is an optimism bias in which individuals perceive they are less vulnerable than other people to negative life events or whether this is an illusion of control bias which people overestimate their own abilities .
10 Staff are asked to specify whether Double Density ( for IBM PS/2 machines ) or High Density ( for newer machines ) disks are required .
11 Our studies were designed to determine whether transient UOS relaxations occur during gastro-oesophageal reflux .
12 When the plan is being constructed and teachers are deciding upon success criteria for plans they may put searching questions and suggest additional ways to ensure that objectives become reality : if a school aims ‘ involve all pupils ’ are checks being made to see whether this is occurring ?
13 These findings were used to see whether appropriate timing of octreotide injections with respect to meal ingestion might avert impaired gall bladder contraction .
14 Data from a Swedish survey were analyzed to see whether socioeconomic and demographic factors , tobacco consumption level or illness could explain why some smokers succeeded in stopping smoking .
15 Libraries were asked to say whether pre-planned formal induction , job or development training was automatically offered to their professional or non-professional staff .
16 Initially young pupils were asked to decide whether one thing came before or after another , without reference to precise dates .
17 They were asked to indicate whether various assertions ( such as " An hour 's sleep before midnight is worth two afterwards " ) were true , possibly true , or untrue .
18 Employers were now being forced to reassess whether traditional packages meet the expectations of employees .
19 All avenues were explored to see whether such a guarantee could be given by the Americans , but no way of doing so could be found without breaching the US Constitution .
20 A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally .
21 The police committee is asked to consider whether local government should begin to contribute towards Victim Support schemes .
22 A Labour group reviewing planning law has proposed that local authorities be allowed to decide whether new second homes should need change of use planning consent .
23 Further experiments are required to determine whether these DNA homologies determine a consensus sequence for the binding of a family of single stranded DNA binding proteins .
24 The present study was designed to test whether massive ( 90% ) PSBR would remove sufficient enteroendocrine cells to prevent the hypercholecystokininaemia of lesser enterectomies and , if not , whether the CCK receptor antagonist CR-1409 would blunt the adaptive response of the pancreas .
25 Logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether any of the reflux variables was predictive of oesophagitis .
26 A further series of experiments was performed to assess whether colonic bacteria could contribute to measured metabolism .
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