Example sentences of "question [prep] whether [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There remained the question about whether to tell Merymose that he had seen Surere . |
| 2 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 3 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet on the question of whether to allow members of the armed forces and police to belong to a political party . |
| 4 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 5 | It was a question of whether to turn away with tears in her eyes , admitting failure , or giving Amsterdam a taste of her temper . |
| 6 | THE question of whether to use our own labour or contractors ' is a tricky one . |
| 7 | This ( second ) information pack is intended to assist solicitors in considering the question of whether to incorporate all or part of their practice , and , if they wish to do so , to assist solicitors in making the appropriate application for recognition by the Law Society . |
| 8 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 9 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 10 | At a meeting on April 21-22 the Democratic Platform 's co-ordinating council was divided over the question of whether to begin creating a new party immediately , with those in favour of an immediate split from the CPSU forming a steering committee chaired by Nikolai Travkin . |
| 11 | The King said that he had considered abdicating over the question of whether to meet Israel face-to-face , but that he believed that attending the talks would add weight to international calls for Israel 's withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 12 | There is also the question of whether to buy on credit or to pay cash . |
| 13 | A writ will not normally be renewed so as to deprive the defendant of the accrued benefit of a limitation period , and the court does not deal with the question of whether to renew a writ after expiry of the limitation period on the same basis as an application to disapply the limitation period under s33 of the Limitation Act 1980 ( see para 1.37 above ) ( Waddon v Whitecroft-Scovill Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 309 ) . |
| 14 | More central to the concerns of this book is the question of whether testing programmes are a suitable procedure for accountability . |
| 15 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 16 | While the Queen was pondering the question of whether to pay income tax , the rest of the nation was wondering whether they would have any income on which to pay tax . |