Example sentences of "[to-vb] whether the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 2 | When Galileo compared the rate of fall of different materials he was attempting to answer a fundamental question : he wanted to know whether the gravitational attraction on different materials was the same . |
| 3 | Second , the text shows that it was important to know whether the general clause applied or not . |
| 4 | It is difficult to know whether the increasing participation of Third World women in managerial , technical and professional employment in TNCs in the Third World is simply pan of the ‘ indigenization ’ process of replacing expatriate with local personnel , or whether it is a qualitatively different phenomenon in its own right . |
| 5 | They also want to know whether the French Government will take any action . |
| 6 | It would be interesting to know whether the same criteria were used in the restructuring of the reserves . |
| 7 | He had assured Lucille that he fought only because his pension would be jeopardized if he refused , but in truth he had wanted to know whether the old skills were still there or whether , like a cannon fired too fast and too often , he had simply worn himself out as a soldier . |
| 8 | Tallboy was at a loss to know whether the big man was mocking him or not with these innocent tastes . |
| 9 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |
| 10 | At one point , the original river bank , shored up by wire and stone , remained the only still point , actually down the centre of the fast-moving Trannon , so that it was a job to guess whether the buckling gabions had belonged originally to the left or to the right . |
| 11 | The conflict is often hurtful for the family or close friends , who have to guess whether the creative member wants company or not . |
| 12 | It is important to observe whether the stroked person accepts or rejects the stroke . |
| 13 | If for example , one envisages a flock of say 1,000 laying birds , it is very important to carry out market research to find whether the immediate area can and is willing to purchase your whole production . |
| 14 | In other words , the proposed research should enable us to discover whether the dark figure of crime is even larger than self-report studies reveal it to be . |
| 15 | Earlier , it had emerged that an investigation being undertaken in South Africa into alleged South African Defence Force ( SADF ) " hit squads " [ see p. 37234 ] would not attempt to discover whether the Lubowski murder was linked to such squads . |
| 16 | The World Wide Fund for Nature-Hong Kong is carrying out DNA analysis to discover whether the local dolphin is indeed a separate species . |
| 17 | They 'll be trying to establish whether the two crimes are related or not . ’ |
| 18 | It is important to establish whether the additional consents need to be spent on RECHAR or ERDF eligible projects in Objective 2 eligible areas . |
| 19 | So whilst the intersections of logical spaces at an elemental level will allow the elemental functions to be maintained , these must be reflected back to the next higher level in the system to establish whether the required function of that assembly space has been achieved or corrupted . |
| 20 | The whole point and purpose of authorities , I shall argue below , is to pre-empt individual judgment on the merits of a case , and this will not be achieved if , in order to establish whether the authoritative determination is binding , individuals have to rely on their own judgment of the merits . |
| 21 | trying to establish whether the young person is ‘ really gay ’ , or asking them to prove it ; |
| 22 | Nevertheless it has proved difficult to establish whether the resulting volume changes are sufficient to shatter rock , even in desert environments where diumal temperature ranges on rock surfaces can easily exceed 30 C. Since rock is a poor conductor of heat a thermal gradient is created when the surface is warmed . |
| 23 | Full details would be demanded from Rome to establish whether the Italian authorities had breached EC rules on state aid . |
| 24 | Mr Van Leuween described the deportations as premature and argued that more time should have been given to establish whether the voluntary repatriation programme was working . |
| 25 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 26 | Someone is going to rule whether the big world likes it or not . |
| 27 | In order to evaluate whether the enhanced home support of the action scheme was successful in sustaining at home some people who would otherwise have been likely to enter institutional care , it was necessary for the action to take place in a prescribed geographical area , so that an equivalent , matched area could become a control area . |
| 28 | The machine uses a previously unused pin on the parallel port to detect whether the connected device is a floppy drive or a printer , and automatically configures the port accordingly . |
| 29 | This may be smugly satisfying to those of us who sit on the sidelines , but even ardent moralists must soon start to wonder whether the Boesky boom in show trials has overplayed itself . |
| 30 | Tonight the labourers have gathered at a friend 's house to discuss whether the new government will resolve their biggest problems like the lack of decent housing , running water and electricity . |