Example sentences of "[prep] whether it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case described in our earlier debate by the hon. Gentleman , the local authority would make its decision to withdraw or not to withdraw discount on the basis of whether it thought that the dwelling in question was the auntie 's sole or main residence . |
| 2 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 3 | There was also uncertainty among experts as to whether it belonged to Picasso 's Blue or Pink period . |
| 4 | So extraordinary was this bird and so little was known about it , that previously naturalists had been divided as to whether it belonged to the vulture or the gallinaceous race . |
| 5 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 6 | Although widely admired , the ASEA was by no means without its critics , and considerable doubt was expressed as to whether it offered a practical answer to the problem of boy labour . |
| 7 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 8 | However , about one tenth of teachers were unsure as to whether it had been submitted . |
| 9 | About one quarter of Oxfordshire teachers are unsure as to whether their review and report had led directly to any change at all and with regard to whether it had improved teaching methods , over a third were unsure . |
| 10 | Er it 's a matter of speculation as to whether it did play any part . |
| 11 | Much controversy has attached to the word ‘ servants ’ in this passage , as to whether it cancelled the previous Leveller insistence on full , unqualified adult manhood suffrage and was intended to exclude all wage-earners from the vote , or — more likely — was meant to cover only those living in , and so dependent on their master or mistress for board and lodging . |
| 12 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 13 | Thus power in modern capitalism might be more fractionated and pluralist than in the past — it might also be based on non-class political divisions — but in practice the use that was made of the state and its scope of manoeuvre would be conditional on whether it threatened capitalism as a system . |
| 14 | Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made . |
| 15 | France 's advertising standards authority had no immediate comment on whether it broke the law . |
| 16 | After eating dairy produce for a week , you should have a pretty good idea about whether it suited you or not . |
| 17 | I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ? |
| 18 | The status of a small-town or country station would be marked by whether it had a women 's waiting-room or not . |