Example sentences of "whether [pron] [was/were] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minority of Labour members on the committee did not agree with this and issued their own minority report , but the most significant point about the conclusion is that the majority on the committee excluded at the outset the possibility of obtaining the evidence they would need to judge properly whether there was any abuse of power . |
| 2 | Rain asked whether there was any progress in the murder inquiry . |
| 3 | Simone was busy unpacking the bags , finding her way around the kitchen , asking whether there was any garlic because she was pretty efficient at making garlic bread . |
| 4 | I reported them when I went up but whether there was any success in the things I just do n't know . |
| 5 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 6 | The judge had however to consider whether there was any obligation on the defendants to keep this part of the premises in repair . |
| 7 | She tried to remember whether there was any milk in the icebox . |
| 8 | Under these circumstances the substantial question reserved ( irrespective of the form of the plea ) was whether there was any consideration for the notes . |
| 9 | We were therefore interested to see whether there was any evidence that these fears had been justified . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been wondering , ’ he lowered his voice and gave a sly grin , ‘ whether there was any hanky-panky going on ? ’ |
| 11 | This point can be proved by showing in the police officer 's evidence the actual situation regarding washers , i.e. whether any washers were fitted ; if fitted , whether there was any fluid in the reservoir ; or whether the jets were correctly adjusted etc . |
| 12 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 13 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 14 | Whe whether it was involved in , whether there was any travel involved or whether it was all desk bound or anything else you know whether he goes zooming off all over the country or whether , whether there 's a possibility of travel involved or any danger in it , in the job , unlikely but |
| 15 | Using the Unemployed Flow Survey data we were also able to see whether there was any relationship between temporary jobs and recurrent unemployment . |
| 16 | But , like myself , there are many wondering whether there was any adjustment at all in the following two months . |
| 17 | Now whether there was any truth in it or not I do n't know but a lot of country women always used to have raspberry leaf tea during pregnancy . |
| 18 | Whether there was any truth in it or not I 've no idea . |
| 19 | Whether there was any truth in it or not I do n't know |
| 20 | She decided to take a train to Arles , idly wondering whether there was any trace of Van Gogh left . |
| 21 | The question we would ask would be whether there was any difference in the electrical activity of the neurons in the IMHV as a result of training on the methylanthranilate bead . |
| 22 | What we do not know is who came to power in Northumbria during Ceolwulf 's temporary deposition nor whether there was any connection between the controversies surrounding Wilfrid and those now involving Acca . |
| 23 | Seven years ago Lyons Tetley called in the Mass Observation research agency ( a WPP subsidiary ) to help determine whether there was any future in an idea it had for differentiating Tetley teabags from those of competitors . |
| 24 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 25 | This led to a fourth type of work which discussed the nature and limits of philosophy itself and whether there was any place for women in it , and considered whether the basic assumptions of philosophy included or excluded women . |
| 26 | After the fiasco in Prague I began to wonder whether there was any point in my running in any more relay teams , began to think that it was just a waste of everyone 's time . |
| 27 | Asking himself whether there was any point in going to bed … ? |
| 28 | The question was whether there was any reason , based on the nature of the power or the circumstances of its exercise , why it should not be subject to review for reasonableness and fairness ; in other words , was the decision or action ‘ justiciable ’ ? |
| 29 | The motivation for the project was : staff recognition of a need to evaluate whether children made any real progress in their written work between 1st year infants and 4th year juniors ; whether too much was expected too soon , and whether it is possible to decide an age when the average child could be expected to be competent in certain skills ; whether the language curriculum throughout the school was sufficiently broad in terms of coverage or whether there was unnecessary duplication ; whether the most able children were being stretched enough ; whether there was any justification for ‘ setting ’ across classes for certain kinds of work ; whether pooling teacher energy and resources on a common topic increased intra-staff awareness and co-operation , and co-operation and interest among children from different classes ; and finally , whether whole-school topic work appeared sufficiently worthwhile in terms of children 's learning experiences to warrant repetition at some future date . |
| 30 | American officials are investigating whether there was any insider trading . |