Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears to be an inescapable fact that regardless of whether a nation is developing , developed or experiencing economic decline , the indigenous population will experience differing degrees of economic prosperity depending on their particular location in the economy . |
| 2 | Lyn says , ‘ He went off sex and I used to carry on and on about whether he was after other women . |
| 3 | When two descriptions are of the same type , plural reference is enhanced , regardless of syntactic condition , and regardless of whether the two descriptions are names or noun phrases . |
| 4 | Today everyone receives the same basic personal allowance , regardless of whether they are male , female , married or single ; and regardless of whether any income they have comes from earnings , an investment , their pension or other source . |
| 5 | The new machines will run MVS , enabling users to maintain mainframe databases and regardless of whether the operating system is MVS or AIX , both will act as servers for OS/2-based desktops . |
| 6 | He was solely concerned with whether punishments were effective as deterrents and not with whether they were ‘ fair ’ ( though , as we shall see later , his views on deterrence were also problematic ) . |
| 7 | Seriously , can anyone give us news on how Tinkler 's recovering , and also on whether Forrester , Sharp , and Bowman ( who all played last year ) look like getting a game in the near future . |
| 8 | Here if I am wrong , my error is substantial , for in being wrong about whether ‘ pink ’ is the word to describe my present experience I am wrong about what pink is and hence about whether my experience is of pink rather than of orange . |
| 9 | Awareness of time and even of whether I was waking or sleeping soon drained away . |
| 10 | The rights of the individual are not to be violated in the name of some collective good , whether that good be the good of the ecosystem or the good of sentient life ( both human and nonhuman ) , and independently of whether these rights are violated ‘ humanely ’ or otherwise . |
| 11 | Amidst the excitement of what The Daily Mail ( 17 August 1898 ) aptly termed ‘ Hooliganiana ’ , accusations and counter accusations flew thick and fast about whether the sudden alarm was justified . |
| 12 | This is a question first of whether some forms of regulatory frameworks are superior to others and then of whether any form of regulation is worthwhile . |
| 13 | We are here to have a committee meeting about the Season , and about your attitude , and indeed about whether we can go on with the Season at all . ’ |
| 14 | They 've learned to read plans , negotiate with housing agencies and councillors , and ponder long and hard on whether they want a one-way street , trees , bollards , here , or there . |
| 15 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 16 | To be given a steer saves time but regardless of whether the head or the local authority regards change as being large scale , well publicised , hotly debated or self-evidently necessary , it is still necessary , behind every broad picture , to make sure that the purpose and implications of specific change are explicit . |
| 17 | In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one . |
| 18 | Comedy is not about the jokes you tell , not just about how funny you even tell them , but simply about whether you 're funny or not . |
| 19 | You can correct the errors in the specified input file using the editor $EDIT which can be accessed by pressing PF1/1 — the Breakout key ; the use of this key is fully described in Appendix A. When you leave the editor , LIFESPAN will display the Scan A Module page once again , exactly as it was before regardless of whether you have or have not corrected the error . |
| 20 | and erm Marilyn will come down of course when she 's at , she 's worried as well about whether she 's going to get a job , cos er , I mean they need to have erm a second income I should think |