Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your choice therefore could be boiled down to whether you want to start with the " real thing " on video , as an example of what the unit is about , or whether you want to keep the most realistic example for later , to reinforce what has gone before . |
| 2 | This holds regardless of whether the mechanism , behavioural , chemical or otherwise , might have evolved arbitrarily or might have been the only possible one phylogenetically . |
| 3 | Many of the legal ‘ rights ’ or ‘ incidents ’ of what political scientists or philosophers might refer to as citizenship are enjoyed regardless of whether the individual in question is a British citizen . |
| 4 | A decision is expected shortly on whether Dr Siddiqui will be prosecuted for incitement to murder . |
| 5 | A GOVERNMENT decision is expected soon on whether Suffolk will gain its first secure unit for young offenders . |
| 6 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 7 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 8 | Erm you closed questioned which I thought Martin made very difficult for you but er obviously intentionally but erm what else is it you mentioned erm pension or benefits from the navy , you never actually picked up on whether he had any erm pension benefit from , from the forces which is something that , that we would have had to have made a note of . |
| 9 | You 'll have a chance to come back on whether we have got the wrong impression on that , I mean I recall Mr Heselton 's quite clearly , but let me pursue that at a stage further if if we take that as our impression of what you have said collectively , and you are asked to make provision for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , again collectively in the Greater York area , and I 'm addressing this question to the districts , what provision would you make in your districts of your district figure in the Greater York area ? |
| 10 | The Chancellor abolished tax relief on ( new ) Life Assurance Policies in the 1984 budget , but has made no move to abolish , or phase-out MITR — indeed speculation in some parts of the Conservative party before the 1987 Election centred not on whether there would be a reduction , but whether there would be an increase in the maximum level of relief permitted ( the previous increase was in 1983 , also a general election year ) . |
| 11 | The barbecue is always one of the more popular events , though where we do this depends rather on whether the wind has dropped or not ! |
| 12 | The picture which emerges from this kind of work highlights collective action and collective advantage , but often says little about whether all the individuals involved in this enterprise benefited from it in equal measure . |
| 13 | A Bill may well be approved , if time is available , in which case whether it ever completes its course depends entirely on whether there happens to be sufficient time . |
| 14 | This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance . |
| 15 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 16 | The actual rate of return on a futures position depends both on whether the position is long or short , and on the amount of margin that has to be paid . |
| 17 | The efficiency of biological effluent treatment depends purely on whether or not the bugs do their job properly , digesting as much carbon material as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 18 | Customs say no decision has been made yet on whether to appeal . |
| 19 | As far as I know , they have been er certainly have been erm involved in most of the ballots so far , but I know there is a discussion going on about whether they should be the . |
| 20 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 21 | We will look later at whether this sort of action would be sufficient to answer the question of legal status of the e-mail ‘ record ’ and how this extraction process would need to be very clearly structured and closely managed to allow such routine deletion . |
| 22 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 23 | Their judgement of people is based entirely on whether they are treated gently or harshly , kindly or unkindly , with love or with disdain . |
| 24 | In Martha Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ Fun has become not only permissible but required ’ ; the modern mother is already a creature whose ‘ feelings of inadequacy are matched only by her undying efforts ’ , according to Johnson and Medinnus ( 1965 ) , and ‘ fun morality ’ now ensures that ‘ her self-evaluation can no longer be based entirely on whether she is doing the right and necessary things but becomes involved with nuances of feelings which are not under voluntary control ’ ( Wolfenstein , 1955 , our italics ) . |
| 25 | Consequently , setting up detailed financial controls based only upon whether an SBU is considered to be a ‘ star ’ , ‘ cash cow ’ or ‘ dog ’ is also simplistic . |
| 26 | The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications . |
| 27 | ‘ It is a purely ideological desire to see the private sector providing regardless of whether it is appropriate or not . ’ |
| 28 | Even for the much more limited requirement of a qualification based purely on whether a significant proportion of the likely distribution of outcomes gives a negative net worth , there must be some implicit formulation of a distribution and a cut-off percentage . |
| 29 | Whether there should be an inquest turns solely on whether the death was ‘ unnatural . ’ |
| 30 | Application packages and command driven data management systems are two attractive approaches — the choice between then depending mainly on whether the user wants an instant solution or a tailored system . |