Example sentences of "whether by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opinion gained ground — an opinion with which Eric Ashby would evidently have had some sympathy — that the employment of a full-time tutor for the county , whether by the WEA or by the University Extra-Mural Board , placed constraints on branches ' freedom to choose subjects of study because of pressure to find a viable programme for the full-timer to teach . |
| 2 | Whether by the 1740s Bridget Freemantle and her mother still entertained enthusiasm for the Stuart cause is unknown . |
| 3 | As the previous point suggests , the 1980s saw a decline in the direct proportion of services directly provided , whether by the extension of activity into new areas ( such as economic development ) or by the privatization of existing services . |
| 4 | In this state the brain is receptive to positive healing suggestions made to the patient , whether by the therapist or by the patient himself . |
| 5 | In the First World War radicals had looked to the emerging superpowers to enable democratic movements to set Europe to rights — whether by the enforcement of a Pax Americana , or by the boost given by the Russian Revolution to the campaign for a negotiated peace . |
| 6 | Consequently all and only sexual buds are impressionable , whether by the action of changed conditions or by a sexual element from a mate of unlike constitution . |
| 7 | New offences were created to counter the menace of bomb hoaxes and the reality of threats to kill , whether by the planting of bombs or other means . |
| 8 | The other is In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 26 where he said : ‘ No doctor can be required to treat a child , whether by the court in the exercise of its wardship jurisdiction , by its parents , by the child or anyone else . |
| 9 | ‘ No doctor can be required to treat a child , whether by the court in the exercise of its wardship jurisdiction , by the parents , by the child or anyone else . |
| 10 | But Mr. Thornton forcefully submits that no more is required to sustain the plea than that the court before whom the defendant had previously been charged should have decided his guilt , whether by the court , where it is the tribunal of fact , announcing its decision to that effect , by the return of a guilty verdict by the jury or by the ‘ acceptance ’ of a plea of guilty . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the controlling or checking functions of the judicial branch can only consist in impartial application of the law , and where constitutional law places restrictions on legislative power , a duty to declare the law seems to imply a duty to declare when such restrictions have been violated , whether by the legislature or by anyone else . |
| 12 | If permission to develop land is refused or granted subject to conditions , whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State for the Environment , and the owner of the land claims that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state and can not be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development which has been or would be permitted he may serve on the Council , a purchase notice requiring the Council to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 13 | Hence section 96 has to provide savings of ‘ pre-1982 pre-emptive requirements ’ imposed ‘ whether by the company 's memorandum or articles or otherwise . ’ |
| 14 | Re-definition , however , whether by the courts or Parliament , is at best a partial answer to the difficulties which have arisen , since the difficulties of construction are at least as important as those of substance and can be resolved only by statutory amendment of the rule that ‘ a gift for both charitable and non-charitable purposes wholly fails ’ . |
| 15 | Parliament also sought to eliminate the so-called ‘ democratic deficit ’ , by which powers previously exercised by national governments who were supervised by national Parliaments , passed to the unelected Council of Ministers , bypassing any Parliamentary scrutiny , whether by the European or by national Parliaments . |
| 16 | This is interpreted to mean an accidental slip or omission , whether by the Court itself , or by a litigant , solicitor or Counsel appearing before it ; as to the last , see Craigmyle v Inchape ( 1942 ) 1 Ch p 394 . |
| 17 | Thank you very much Mr President and as you 've been friendly enough to invite me and given me such a friendly welcome , I , I thought I ought to risk speaking to you as candidly as I can about what is going on in our country and our communities at the moment and whether by the end of the thing I continue your friend is another matter . |