Example sentences of "or not [pron] be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't worry about the purple prose ( unless you are that way inclined ) , as the programme editors will be amalgamating all the information into one article , which we hope will be of interest to all Society members whether or not they are able to come to the Fairfield Hall . |
| 2 | In this respect too , the court is exercising its power of review , by identifying more closely for the police the questions that they must ask themselves in deciding whether or not they are entitled to take preventive action . |
| 3 | At least as much interest has been stirred up by another special ability of the acoustic microscope ; to see beneath the surface , look into things , whether or not they are transparent to light and other forms of radiation . |
| 4 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 5 | whether or not they are likely to lose money . |
| 6 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 7 | The Hicklin test focused upon the effect of the book on the most vulnerable members of society , whether or not they were likely to read it . |
| 8 | Whether or not we are prepared to accept that the Neanderthals had an advanced but abstract civilization , we are left with a question : what sort of civilization did the Neanderthals have ? |
| 9 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 10 | ‘ This will force France to decide whether or not she 's prepared to call our bluff . |
| 11 | These might include terms defining your headquarters , indicating where travel involved in your job begins and ends , where and in what currency you are to be paid and whether or not you are obliged to pay UK National Insurance contributions . |
| 12 | erm you can ring those , our Home Care organisers up , and they will advise you whether or not you are likely to get a Home Care and what other help might be available as well . |
| 13 | Whether that 's true or not it 's difficult to speak out against what the authority 's doing . |
| 14 | Whether this was wise or not it is impossible to say . |
| 15 | To predict whether a reaction will occur spontaneously or not it is necessary to introduce another thermodynamic state function called entropy . |
| 16 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 17 | It is therefore necessary for the tests to include information regarding the size and nature of the standardisation sample so that the teacher or therapist may judge whether or not it is reasonable to use the distribution of sample scores as a basis for evaluating the performance of particular individuals . |
| 18 | It is important to establish , therefore , whether or not it is reasonable to suppose that the children of lone mothers represent a significant proportion of the unoccupied group recorded in the census . |
| 19 | Whether or not it is sensible to invest in a tailor-made structure depends on the capitalized value of the savings derived from it in relation to the present value of its costs . |
| 20 | but the fact that , in an open court of law , someone has been shown to have failed to meet their credit obligations without sound reason must have a bearing on whether or not it is sensible to lend to them again — both from their own personal point of view ( whether or not they will find the payments an unduly heavy burden ) and from the pint of view of consumers generally , whose credit costs must rise if the level of bad debt rises . |
| 21 | ( b ) Contract Where the arrangement is agreed between the parties , the practitioner must consider whether or not it is desirable to have a binding contract . |
| 22 | Always enquire whether or not it is convenient to proceed . |
| 23 | But before writing to her friend of the matter , the queen-dowager debated whether or not it was necessary to burden her with the knowledge . |