Example sentences of "[adj] question [be] [not/n't] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting question is not whether such functions exist , for they are clearly implied in the phenomena we call behaviour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |