Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] whether it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 2 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 3 | As the proposed grant for 93–94 from Christian Aid was so large , at £50,000 , the Committee was asked to consider the proposal in advance , and give some now indication of whether it would support the request when it came to committee for approval next year . |
| 4 | Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives . |
| 5 | The commission is stopping it because the British Government will not make up its mind on whether it 's gon na back the money . |
| 6 | However , in legitimating these tasks , the legal framework established by the state has inevitably suffered from some confusion over whether it is primarily directed at helping families to achieve social control of their children or at ratifying state intervention . |
| 7 | Firstly , as with any property , a purchaser wants an assessment of the physical state of the property and an assessment of whether it will be suitable for its business . |
| 8 | From the parents ' point of view , to go back to your original question about whether it 's good for children to be helped at home , of course it 's , it does n't make any sense to stop helping your child just because he 's reached the age of five . |
| 9 | Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him . |
| 10 | Glasgay ! should be an instructive test of whether it really welcomes innovation and potential controversy , or whether its major cultural skill is just mouth music . |
| 11 | The information needs to be stored in such a form that will facilitate fast testing of whether it matches what is being searched for . |
| 12 | So far we have considered the significance of attachment in relation to the fundamental but rather general issue of whether it is safe to rely upon others at all . |
| 13 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 14 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 15 | It is not a question of whether it is better or worse to remain a virgin or a bachelor , he wrote , but rather of bringing the terror to the surface . |
| 16 | Yet in such circumstances the insider 's account has a potential to combine ‘ action anthropology ’ , ‘ applied anthropology ’ , and ‘ pure anthropology ’ , to create a fully semantic analysis ; and this raises the question of whether it will then be possible to publish and be damned ? |
| 17 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 18 | There is also the question of whether it is better to treat on-site or to transport contaminated soil to a specialist plant . |
| 19 | Even if continued economic growth proved feasible there remains the question of whether it is desirable . |
| 20 | This raises the question of whether it is necessary to represent objects at the single cell level . |
| 21 | Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided . |
| 22 | Managers were delighted at the price advantage which they had gained over their gas competitors and the question of whether it was artificial did not seriously concern them . |
| 23 | The question of whether it is possible to establish a normative consensus , based on rational discussion undistorted by values , has also been addressed by Habermas ( 1975 , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | The section does not of itself confer a power to withhold information in the proceedings themselves , but an application under the section necessarily raises the question of whether it is proper to do so . |
| 25 | ‘ In future cases where a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally our attitude on the question of whether it qualifies to be treated as a government , will be left to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , which we may have with it , and in particular on whether we are dealing with it on a normal government to government basis . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Access to their help , leaving aside the question of whether it employs a separate , distinct expertise , has usually meant passing on pupils from the classroom or the school . |
| 28 | This raises the question of whether it is possible to make any distinction between black holes , beyond differences in mass . |
| 29 | The court sidestepped the question of whether it was a contract of sale or for services , by holding that , whichever it was , there was an implied term of the contract that the goods should be reasonably fit for the purpose for which they were intended . |
| 30 | However , no figures were revealed as to the size of the RIS , and the key question of whether it would employ former Securitate officers was declared " confidential " . |