Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can prove that the goods were defective when you bought them , you do have a claim against the seller and this is regardless of whether the guarantee has expired or not . |
| 2 | And if there is a question about the Clinton administration three months into its term it is not about whether he is an ‘ old ’ or a ‘ new ’ Democrat ; as one of his advisers says , fairly , that will be clear one day . |
| 3 | Building a collaborative learning environment is not about whether or how often children are working individually or in groups . |
| 4 | THIS ARTICLE IS not about whether I believe in God . |
| 5 | This kind of drama for practice in expressing and communicating emotions is far removed from the functioning behaviour required in the game of drama , where the participants ' concentration is not on whether he or she is signalling an emotion but with getting on with solving whatever problem is to hand . |
| 6 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the debate on Trident in Scotland is not on whether we should have three or four boats or on the number of warheads per missile but on whether we should proceed with expenditure which , over its lifetime , could amount to £23,000 million on a useless , dangerous military white elephant ? |
| 7 | The difference between mental health and mental ill-health is not in whether or not defences are used but in the flexibility or rigidity with which they are employed and in the mix between them , as opposed to the over-use of one defence rather than others . |
| 8 | Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions . |
| 9 | Therefore , the emphasis of the present discussion is not upon whether the individuals benefit psychologically from being members of the Young Conservatives : it can be assumed that those who remain members do so because they enjoy being so . |
| 10 | This chapter is about the way in which the existing predicament of teachers leads them to become stressed , and it is also about whether stress is inevitable in such circumstances or not . |
| 11 | It is also about whether Miss T. really did choose and , if so , what choice she made . |
| 12 | The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% . |
| 14 | Disagreement is mainly about whether great literature or the children 's own environment and experiences should provide the stimuli for this work . |
| 15 | The debate is therefore about whether ‘ gender equality ’ means equal opportunities to study what is to girls a rejecting curriculum , or whether it means changing the curriculum so that boys and girls are equally advantaged ( or disadvantaged ) . |
| 16 | All elections in two-party parliamentary systems are essentially about whether or not it is time for a change . |
| 17 | Like many previous reports , including the Cleveland Enquiry , the focus was not on whether children had been abused , but on whether ‘ proper procedures ’ had been followed . |
| 18 | His quarrel with the British was not about whether dominion status was an adequate offer , but over whether they were sincere in making it , and it was only when he concluded , in 1919 , that they were not , that he launched mass non-co-operation to get it . |
| 19 | According to foreign news reports the split was essentially over whether the south should secede ; the dissident group favoured an independent black state , while Garang and his loyalists continued to support the goal of a united , secular Sudan . |