Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] whether the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They had not looked to see whether the police had come into the main road in time to see .
2 But other leases contain wording which says that the arbitrator must be " an independent surveyor " : so the wording of each clause will have to be considered to see whether the word " independent " carries any particular message about the status of the referee .
3 There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive .
4 The shareholding structure of a private company target will therefore need to be carefully considered to ascertain whether the transaction comes within the exemption .
5 It was expected to ascertain whether the Uttar Pradesh government had violated two court orders by granting permission to Hindu militants in July to start work on the construction of a Hindu temple [ see p. 39008 ] .
6 The Long constructs contain the Ead gene , in addition to 23 kb of 5' Ea sequence and 4.5 kb of 3' Ea sequence ( Figure 1c ) and was designed to show whether the presence of the upstream regions containing DH groups III-V were of functional importance to position-independent , copy-dependent expression of the Ea transgene .
7 Every effort should be made to discover whether the family have the ability to put themselves in hypothetical situations and conceptualise and deal with the difficulties that are likely to arise with the black child , particularly during adolescence .
8 Steps were taken to ensure that the nodes were not perturbed more than once , but no checks were made to determine whether the perturbation process caused sliver polygons to be created .
9 When the case came before the House of Lords a reference to the European Court was made to determine whether the facts disclosed discrimination under Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome .
10 Sound Recordings for Community Services A check up will be made to ascertain whether the Village Association has been registered as a charitable organisation .
11 Sound Recordings for Community Services A check up will be made to ascertain whether the Village Association has been registered as a charitable organisation .
12 What precise statistical procedure can be applied to test whether the coefficients and explanatory power of equation ( 3.19 ) , the unrestricted model , are significantly different from those in equation ( 3.20 ) , the restricted model ?
13 Intestinal transit times were measured to see whether the effect of sulphate upon methanogenesis might be the result of faster bowel transit , because the laxative properties of sodium sulphate are recognised .
14 Research is needed to establish whether the level of conciliated settlements is fair to applicants or whether applicants simply prefer the bird in the hand to that in the bush .
15 In the west London population in McKeigue and Leon 's study only one urine sample was used to define whether the subjects had microalbuminuria , whereas our subjects were characterised by overnight and daytime urine collections .
16 If possible price levels to achieve this can be hypothesized , the model of table 5.2 can be used to inquire whether the experience-curve effect is adequate to sustain a positive NPV at such price levels .
17 If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect .
18 OUP expect to establish with the supplier the criteria which will be used to determine whether the system functions correctly and can be accepted by OUP .
19 Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure .
20 Perhaps Sir Fred Hoyle , as an authority on epidemiology , might be invited to see whether the origin of the epidemic may not lie close to the laboratories of the National Institutes of Health .
21 Such models were applied to the car market by several authors in the 1960s and early 1970s ; this research is intended to determine whether the principle can still be usefully applied in forecasting the size of the market .
22 Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night .
23 This court is of the opinion that the jury should have been directed to consider whether the effect of the book was to tend to deprave and corrupt a significant proportion of those persons likely to read it .
24 A second primary and secondary school will be studied to see whether the findings from the case study schools apply to schools elsewhere .
25 So wide are the analyses and the prescriptions that one is tempted to wonder whether the concept of pluralist stagnation might itself be applied to the political analysis of Britain 's ills .
26 It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high .
27 Meanwhile Alvin Lawson , professor of English at California State University , and his colleague , William McCall , a medical hypnotist , have endeavoured to prove whether the details of memories about abduction can be explained purely in terms of the psychology of the percipient .
28 But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above .
29 In some charts a distinction is made , in terms of the reliability of the child 's performance , so that the practitioner is required to indicate whether the child regularly demonstrates the particular skill or only sometimes .
30 Secondly , continuing analysis is required to determine whether the content of the rules in general , and their application to particular areas , is being pitched at the ‘ right ’ level .
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