Example sentences of "be [adv] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be so whether he takes the trouble to read them or not , and whether they are actually set out in a document in his possession , or ( subject to the question of the need to offer an oppportunity to inspect , which is discussed below ) merely incorporated into the contract by a reference in such a document . |
| 2 | Well , tell them I 'll be back whether the King wants me or not , We said we 'd take this damned city , and we 're going to . ’ |
| 3 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 4 | The real issues are firstly whether Marx 's general perspective on stratification was sound , and secondly , whether contemporary Western societies are still capitalist in the general basic character of their social relations . |
| 5 | The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way . |
| 6 | George continued with deliberate diffidence : ‘ It 's all rather confidential I know of course you 'll respect that ; the problem is rather whether you feel you can disclose anything from your side without an official request from Security and I 'm sure you 'll understand why we 'd rather avoid that at this stage … ’ |
| 7 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 8 | This is so whether or not the business has actually received from its customers the money on which the VAT is due . |
| 9 | This is so whether we have in mind disciplines which are largely cognitive in character , or those — such as in the performing arts — which are built around action . |
| 10 | This is so whether we have in mind the validity of a prepositional truth claim , or the satisfactoriness of an action in the domain of professional education . |
| 11 | The kinematics of materials , considered as assemblages of particles may be described by either of the two methods and this is so whether the material is elastic , viscous or a classical fluid . |
| 12 | This is so whether or not de facto control is obtained . |
| 13 | The question is thus whether the proceedings before Barnett J. constituted a civil cause or matter . |
| 14 | If the leading dissident Mr Vaclev Havel is right , the current power struggle is not whether to resist change but who should succeed Mr Milos Jakes . |
| 15 | If the leading dissident Mr Vaclev Havel is right , the current power struggle is not whether to resist change but who should succeed Mr Milos Jakes . |
| 16 | The question is not whether a reform bill will pass but how strong it will be . |
| 17 | The question is not whether to develop ever-better weapons , but how much to spend on doing it . |
| 18 | The interesting question is not whether such functions exist , for they are clearly implied in the phenomena we call behaviour . |
| 19 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 20 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 21 | The question is not whether you will influence behaviour but how . |
| 22 | It is not whether the idea is correct but the great scope o f the vision that should interest us . |
| 23 | The real question is not whether the Book of Genesis has it right ( most modern theologians read it as a poetic account ) but whether evolution is correct . |
| 24 | The important issue is not whether these suggestions provide a useful starting point for thinking about the ‘ success ’ of the new authorities but that such tests have to be devised before events start to unfold in order to enable sensible evaluations to be made . |
| 25 | The real point at issue here is not whether objectives should be used but how they are used . |
| 26 | The issue is not whether the UK should back nuclear safety research at Ispra ( those of us in the field in the UK are all in favour of that ) , but whether the majority of the resources ( and even an increase in the planned budget ) should be concentrated on a single project which can not possibly give results until late 1986 . |
| 27 | The issue for Britain now is not whether the country should be cabled , but how . |
| 28 | ‘ The question today is not whether , the question is how . ’ |
| 29 | The question to be answered is not whether the deprave-and-corrupt test is necessary in a modern society — that has now been conceded — but whether it is sufficient to catch the full range of material which ‘ the protection of health and morals ’ requires ? |
| 30 | Anyway , the important thing is not whether people believe in something or not — the important thing is whether it 's actually true or not . |