The phrase "ascertaining a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of determining or finding out something specific.
Example: "The team is focused on ascertaining a clear understanding of the client's needs before proceeding with the project."
Alternatives: "determining a" or "establishing a".
The police said they were very busy ascertaining a motive.Really, it wasn't hard to spot one.
This comment was conspicuous, breaking the Zen-like calm with which the Apple customer-service representative goes about ascertaining a problem and then working to help fix it.
This is not about paperwork or data collection; ascertaining a child's Aboriginal status is supposed to trigger a range of interventions and protections.
Yutaka Ito at Tokyo Metropolitan University and colleagues succeeded for the first time in ascertaining a three-dimensional protein structure exclusively from NMR spectroscopy data from living cells.
The law generally requires a very low standard of mental capacity to execute a will, and there are few hard and fast rules that lawyers must follow when ascertaining a client's competence.
The big hitch in these containment strategies is that they are completely useless if Iran ever slips a bomb, or even some of its newly minted uranium fuel, to a proxy — Hezbollah, Hamas or some other terrorist group — raising the problem of ascertaining a bomb's return address.
In this article we investigate the problem of ascertaining A- and D-optimal designs in a cubic regression model with random coefficients.
To ascertain a star's interests, GPG uses an exercise called "the 100 questions".
But with 10 worms, we've ascertained a dose that does not cause symptoms.
Officially, the cause of the fire will be listed as "not ascertained," a relatively rare determination.
In other words, is it possible to accurately ascertain a voter's intent?
