Example sentences of "[coord] whether it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protestant version has variants as to how pure this church is or whether it remains sinful , but the evangelical version which is the basic one in the North of Ireland opts absolutely for ‘ Jesus Saves ’ ; the community , no longer medium of salvation , tends to take on a visible , earthly role , an occasion of grace and a support for religious ‘ this-worldly ’ activity . |
| 2 | It is obviously essential for the local historian to know , when dealing with population figures and other matters , whether his information relates to the urban area only or whether it encompasses the surrounding rural parts of the parish as well . |
| 3 | The mystery that remains concerns the almost insoluble problem of whether the possum feels the pain when it is being bitten , but is incapable of responding to it , or whether it feels nothing , even though it ‘ knows ’ it is being bitten . |
| 4 | Erm Discussion of Q P9 we need to decide when we qualitative approval form or whether it gets , business procedure Q P16 . |
| 5 | This is where it becomes important to distinguish whether New Historicism uses the cultural anecdote as necessary to focus the general sense of the culture , or whether it offers a selectively constructed view of the culture necessary to the roundness of the New Historicist 's negotiation . |
| 6 | A limited example of this is the recognition that whether a text is published in quarto or folio or whether it circulates as a manuscript will help to create the conditions in which the text 's meaning is understood within a given culture at a particular historical instant . |
| 7 | But the question then arises as to whether all this interactive effort serves only to facilitate the internalization of linguistic knowledge , as Long appears to imply , or whether it does not also develop the executive ability referred to earlier , whereby the learner can access that knowledge in a range of communicative contexts . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether it 's deafness or whether it does n't register that 's what I mean , you see . |
| 9 | The question is whether Article 37 must be read subject to the general provisions on termination , or whether it displaces them . |
| 10 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 11 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 12 | It often refers to any individual member organization irrespective of its actual name , i.e. whether it is an association or federation or whether it stands for Planned Parenthood , Family Well-being , Responsible Parenthood , Protection of the Family or Family Health , etc . |
| 13 | However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth . |
| 14 | Whether this has any foundation in science or whether it reflects the old-fashioned ‘ punitive ’ approach , men up and down the country , known for their ten-pint capacity or love for fine wine , are receiving old-fashioned looks as they ask for a half-pint of lime juice or a tonic on its own . |
| 15 | The meeting 's proceedings could determine whether photoradiation therapy becomes a part of every cancer hospital — or whether it joins the ever-mounting pile of discarded ‘ miracle cures ’ . |
| 16 | The debate is therefore about whether ‘ gender equality ’ means equal opportunities to study what is to girls a rejecting curriculum , or whether it means changing the curriculum so that boys and girls are equally advantaged ( or disadvantaged ) . |
| 17 | But it 's whether , whether the officers do that and start the consultation or whether it 's done by P A G , I 'm getting a shaking of the head here , I think it needs a political decision as opposed to anything else . |
| 18 | One is whether a form is morphologically basic , or whether it needs extra material added by way of an additional rule . |
| 19 | All these questions can help you decide whether the ad is right or whether it needs changing . |
| 20 | It is questionable whether the real centre of economic power in this country is any longer an elected parliament or whether it has moved to the trade unions , large corporations , government departments , nationalised industries and government agencies . |
| 21 | The reader must decide , by attending to other clues , whether the continuation is still part of the reported speech , or whether it has reverted to the ‘ author 's voice ’ . |
| 22 | The continuing use after that time of recognition is a time of testing whether control is possible or whether it has indeed been lost . |
| 23 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't have the details though — we do n't know if it might include the replacement of schools or whether it has to be directed at education in different ways . ’ |
| 25 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 26 | With these five factors examined and the results of preliminary thinking kept in mind , the teacher or the planning team will be able to settle down to detailed planning of the specific learning sequence in question , whether it is a short piece of structured work with a work-sheet , tape-slide sequence or programmed unit , or whether it occupies several weeks of varied work . |
| 27 | The fourth point is to check whether your choice of a particular subject calls for any prior knowledge or qualification ; or whether it carries with it the obligation to study a related subject . |
| 28 | Whether this is the result of oppressive criticism by his school-teachers or family , or whether it comes from a reaction to the finer-than-fine scholarship visible in some branches of Judaism ( which counts letters and finds significance in the smallest linguistic minutiae ) , is not certain . |
| 29 | And there is not a feeling that I can have , whether it 's produced from my emotion , or whether it comes from hell itself , there is not a feeling that can come my way , there is not a lie of the devil that can alter that truth ! |
| 30 | It does not , however , attempt to quantify the amount of radioactivity present , nor whether it poses a threat to human health or agriculture . |