Example sentences of "[verb] whether a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 3 | The data so produced may be of use to parsing systems , whenever it becomes necessary to know whether a noun must have a certain feature , not merely that it may have it . |
| 4 | In actual fact , if a court finds it hard to know whether a particular situation comes within the words of a statute or not , the probability is the situation was not foreseen by the legislature , so that the Lords and Members of Parliament would be just as puzzled by it as the judges are . |
| 5 | A separate Form HN1 for each centre is essential because SCOTVEC requires to know whether a centre has the approval of the Scottish Education Department and , if appropriate , the Regional or Islands Council concerned . |
| 6 | Clients contemplating determination of an issue by an expert will wish to know whether a decision can be reached which will be final , and , if not , on what grounds they or the other party can mount a challenge ; whether they can sue the expert ; and whether they can avoid cost and formality . |
| 7 | The option is useful if a user , either teacher or pupil wishes to know whether a particular title is on loan . |
| 8 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 9 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 10 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 11 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 12 | We have considered whether an experience of particular factors might be necessary for the development of given behaviour patterns . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not . |
| 14 | GC analysis distinguishes between solesterol ( plants ) and cholesterol ( animals ) to indicate whether a vessel has been used to prepare vegetables or meat . |
| 15 | Coloured cards or strips can be used to indicate whether a room is vacant , occupied by staff , being cleaned or out of commission . |
| 16 | This indication can then be compared with a national base of 100 to indicate whether a particular area is better or worse than average for finding buyers or owners of any product which is already specifically measured in existing national market research surveys . |
| 17 | The actual grammar rules and certain of the features employed are different ( e.g. sentential grammars have no feature to indicate whether a word can be further inflected ) but the underlying principles and mechanisms are similar . |
| 18 | Some may doubt whether a myth may be stratified , but let that pass . |
| 19 | No one can predict whether a serious injury will result in death — that may depend on the victim 's physique , on the speed of an ambulance , on the distance from the hospital , and on a range of other medical and individual matters . |
| 20 | In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made . |
| 21 | Unless you were there , you ca n't know whether a film 's failings should be attributed to the writer 's incompetence or the director simply misunderstanding the script . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know whether a place as small as this keeps registered poisons but I 've just moved labs … ’ |
| 23 | The implication of this is that in some kinds of library the librarian acknowledges a degree of responsibility to his users , who may not themselves know whether a particular item contains reliable information . |
| 24 | The main sponsors of the meeting , Professors Matthew Meselson of Harvard University and Carl Kaysen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , declined to answer questions about the meeting , Those who did speak to New Scientist did not know whether a summary of the discussions would be made public , |
| 25 | I do not know whether a man or a woman |
| 26 | We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance . |
| 27 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 28 | But do n't you know whether a solicitor 's going to be here for the committal proceedings today ? |
| 29 | And but any anyway we got er , I 've probably tell you this before , the Co- op allowed everybody to have er credit until it was over and there was a n there was a a preacher wh who er and I do n't know whether a Baptist or a Wesleyan Preacher , I think he was a Wesleyan , he was a Welshman and his name was . |
| 30 | Our problem is that we do not understand how officials can know whether a claim is frivolous until they have looked at it . |