Example sentences of "question be not [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is not whether a reform bill will pass but how strong it will be . |
| 2 | The question is not whether to develop ever-better weapons , but how much to spend on doing it . |
| 3 | The interesting question is not whether such functions exist , for they are clearly implied in the phenomena we call behaviour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The question is not whether you will influence behaviour but how . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 8 | The question is not whether they can fill in a simple series of figures , but whether they fully understand the implications of the choices they thus make . |
| 9 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 10 | The relevant question is not whether the average deviation from the no-arbitrage condition is significantly different from zero , but whether there are sometimes deviations from the no-arbitrage condition that are large enough to cover transactions costs . |
| 11 | The question is not whether my face or hair would look good or better . |
| 12 | Does he concede also that the question is not whether the war can be won , but whether it can be won with fewer casualties ? |
| 13 | The wider question is not whether the summary falls apart because the staples are not strong enough , but whether it falls apart because it is not sufficiently objective simply because it has been commissioned , paid for and its contents finally determined by the promoter of the original Bill , now working in co-operation with the Government . |
| 14 | ‘ Question is not if I shoot someone , but when I shoot someone , ’ says John . |
| 15 | The question was not whether the judge had made a wrong decision but whether he had inquired into and decided a matter which he had no right to consider . |
| 16 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , just as much as for the British , the overriding question was not whether certain individuals should be excluded from repatriation because they held non-Soviet passports , but whether the various formations of " Cossacks " as a whole should or should not be repatriated . |