Example sentences of "whether it [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The categories of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ were not , however , abolished , and a Local Education Authority had to decide whether it wished a middle school to be ‘ deemed ’ to be primary or secondary .
2 Every medium , whether it uses the oldest or newest of technologies as its means of delivery , has an appropriateness to particular applications .
3 It does not , however , attempt to quantify the amount of radioactivity present , nor whether it poses a threat to human health or agriculture .
4 A first question is the extent to which some notion of ‘ social class ’ is pertinent to people ; whether it forms a part of their everyday conceptual apparatus .
5 On the other hand , comparisons with national data may be less relevant in that there may be broad geographical variations either in incidence or in case ascertainment that would make it difficult to determine whether an increase in Seascale or Allerdale and Copeland was a local effect ( and hence possibly related to Sellafield ) or whether it affected the whole of Cumbria .
6 SCOTVEC will need carefully to consider the validity and ease of operation of the new system , and whether it meets the needs of higher education and employers .
7 whether it caused an actual as opposed to a potential obstruction as quoted in Evans v Barker [ 1971 ] RTR 453 .
8 Whether it achieves the aims which constitutions are intended to help achieve , is a matter of far greater moment .
9 Conversely , because very little substantive empirical work has been based upon the Marxist model , it is not clear from a relatively small-scale study such as that by Sankoff and Laberge whether it offers a potentially more insightful way of analysing variation .
10 This is where it becomes important to distinguish whether New Historicism uses the cultural anecdote as necessary to focus the general sense of the culture , or whether it offers a selectively constructed view of the culture necessary to the roundness of the New Historicist 's negotiation .
11 It is obviously essential for the local historian to know , when dealing with population figures and other matters , whether his information relates to the urban area only or whether it encompasses the surrounding rural parts of the parish as well .
12 The market for conveyancing services provided to commercial firms will also be studied to establish whether it requires the same degree of self regulation as the market for domestic conveyancing .
13 whether it involves a loss of status , like reduction in authority or superiority or loss of promotion prospects ;
14 In this context , the Court 's well-known flexibility about how the transfer occurs ( for example , whether it occurs indirectly via a third party ) and whether it involves a temporary cessation of the activities in question ( see Redmond Stichting at points 11–13 ) is important .
15 Whether it allows the exercise of force to be more controlled and effective has yet to be seen .
16 Although widely admired , the ASEA was by no means without its critics , and considerable doubt was expressed as to whether it offered a practical answer to the problem of boy labour .
17 Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided .
18 An important question to ask about any new movement in social psychology is whether it proposes a universal or particular perspective .
19 ( whether it take the form of cynical passivity or dogmatic and manipulative activism ) can not but be destructive of a genuinely emancipatory praxis .
20 Binoche expects the painting to fetch about £30m , but the figure depends on whether it gets a French export licence .
21 This Autumn Statement and the new economic policy it set down must be judged on whether it gets the country back to work , reduces the dole queues and brings hope back to the British people .
22 The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it .
23 Thus the firm in economic theory behaved identically and was subject to the same constraints whether it took the form of an individual proprietorship , a partnership or a company .
24 The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance .
25 Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made .
26 The status of a small-town or country station would be marked by whether it had a women 's waiting-room or not .
27 It 's thought Becky Blandford 's hat came off as she fell and it 's not certain whether it had a chin strap , like the one she 's wearing here .
28 Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not .
29 I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ?
30 In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not .
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