Example sentences of "[coord] whether they [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or whether they 'll be fenced off , I just do n't know . |
| 2 | It had to be decided whether the Vienna Convention would include provisions on objective regimes , or whether they would be subsumed under the general prescription . |
| 3 | Virtually none was informed of any charges against them or whether they would be brought to trial . |
| 4 | But that will not settle the trickiest question : whether those republics which are determined not to be part of the Soviet Union will be allowed their independence , or whether they will be kept in by force . |
| 5 | For the retail co-operatives , it posed the question whether their employees too were to be paid a bonus , thus reducing the amount available for distribution on purchases , or whether they should be paid the rate for the job . |
| 6 | I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court . |
| 7 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 8 | In the Trust House Forte case the court had to interpret the assumption that premises were available for letting for shopping and retail purposes : the issue was whether the premises were to be taken as available for letting purposes only or whether they could be taken as to be available for letting for any other purpose permitted by the lease . |
| 9 | Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to . |
| 10 | We have to ask whether there was some failure in the mechanism of the quota arrangements , and whether they can be adjusted or whether there needs to be some compensation . |
| 11 | It will also help us to assess the extent to which these local policies are , in fact , local and whether they can be viewed as autonomous from national and international forces . |
| 12 | In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime . |
| 13 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 14 | The adaptability of African farmers was not in doubt , but whether they would be given the means to expand production to meet growing urban and international markets was an open question . |
| 15 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |