Example sentences of "[prep] whether [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far more important that the owners of the company , the shareholders , be given the choice of whether they want to invest in , let us say , a bank , an agricultural business , a food business , or a retail chain , than that we should build our business in different fields , unless we can demonstrate a high degree of mutual reinforcement from such an exercise . |
| 2 | Although most country parks are monitored by crude counts of visitors , there have been few studies of whether they have achieved the aims set out above . |
| 3 | Erm and we are now , if you like , putting it into a form which anyone can use irrespective of whether they have done the training . |
| 4 | Does the witness know how to contact you if they are going to be late ? ( 10 ) Do you do enough to help the witness get to court ; proper notice , instructions , map etc ? ( 11 ) Do you have a system for thanking witnesses regardless of whether they have to give evidence ? ( 12 ) Do you have an explanatory leaflet to give the witness ? |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The players know how important our League programme is and it is a matter of whether they have recovered mentally and physically to go into the game at Leicester in the right frame of mind . |
| 6 | His lecture posed and promoted the question of whether we have reached the end of a road — can we , need we , go faster ? |
| 7 | A very elementary test of whether we have thought some . |
| 8 | We could address the issue of whether we need to raise capacity just as well next year as this year . |
| 9 | This means that not only do we describe ourselves to ourselves and create identity constructs but we can also face the issue of whether we want to alter those constructs and become another kind of person . |
| 10 | The question of whether someone has suffered special damage or not depends on the facts of the particular case , and so is very much in the discretion of the court . |
| 11 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 12 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 13 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 14 | I had sent her a copy of my memoir , but her noncommittal letter of thanks had given no indication of whether she had read it . |
| 15 | If you are sexually assaulted in any way , the Rape Crisis Centre ( see Helplist ) will offer confidential support , regardless of whether you want to report the attack or not . |
| 16 | Erm , it it 's a matter of whether you want to spend today and pay later , or whether you want to continue a philosophy is mainly in the majority of Lincolnshire vote , that if you want something , you pay for it . |
| 17 | This will take account of whether you have achieved the required standards and met your agreed objectives . |
| 18 | This extra pension is paid either when you claim your pension or when you reach 70(65) , regardless of whether you have retired from work or not . |
| 19 | ‘ We have ways of finding out , and we will cooperate with you as I said , regardless of whether you choose to help us . |
| 20 | She insisted on telling me her entire life story , regardless of whether I wanted to listen or not . ’ |
| 21 | He also had to make the more crucial choice of whether he wished to become a muderris or a kadi : at this stage of his career he would , of course , become a kasabat kadi . |
| 22 | Where the exclusion clause is embodied in a signed contract , the general rule is that the signatory is bound by the contents of the document regardless of whether he has read or understood them ( L " Estrange v Graucob Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 394 ) in the absence of the plea of non est factum ( Saunders v Anglia Building Society [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 23 | I could n't care less whether I go dancing or not me |
| 24 | Significant differences in teachers ' attitudes towards the collegiality and openness of SSE are associated with whether they have seen the Solihull booklet , how well they can recall it , and whether changes in schools occurred as a consequence of its use . |
| 25 | The courts are generally concerned only with the question whether the promisor has made a bargain , not with whether he has made a good bargain . |
| 26 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 27 | They differ in whether they exist incorporated into the chromosomes or free in the cytoplasm of the cells they inhabit , and in how they pass from one cell to another . |
| 28 | Apart from that , I have n't the least interest in whether you choose to kill yourself by falling from a great height , or crashing into something at high speed . ’ |
| 29 | Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory , when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood , baronetcy or peerage , depending upon whether he wished to spend £10,000 or £100,000 , there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours . |
| 30 | The 1984 St Leger was classic Piggott in more ways than one , for the run-up to the race had been accompanied by a typical controversy over whether he had filched the big-race ride from a fellow jockey . |