Example sentences of "whether it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writing which is called art criticism will be helpful , some will not ; other writing will also be valuable , although whether it can be described as art criticism may be disputable . |
| 2 | Whether it is or not , the poem can be called distinctive — distinctive both of Larkin and of Amis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps . |
| 5 | Whether it is nobler . ’ |
| 6 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In such an unclear area , it was not to be left to Dáil members to decide , irrespective of whether it still remained an appropriate public measure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Drinkers have a right to know whether the beer they are drinking is a genuine barley malt product or whether it is stuffed full of such tasty ingredients as corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , amyloglucosidase , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 11 | ‘ Whether it distracted everyone else long enough to slip five drops of something into Mrs Iverson 's coffee , I would n't know , Inspector . ’ |
| 12 | In such situations , it is always worth considering whether it is safer to have another launch and fly the glider to the hangar . |
| 13 | An incomplete or sloppy check carried out on the canopy can be lethal , because if it comes off it is a matter of luck whether it hits or misses the tail . |
| 14 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 15 | Do decide whether it 's a good idea to bring up the subject of drugs yourself . |
| 16 | Planning Permission depends on the size of the work and whether it affects other priorities . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | the Government 's seeming indifference to the effect of the dispute on police public relations , [ should entitle the police ] to wonder whether it is being used to preserve law and order or to implement government policy . |
| 19 | But the families in the little awkward places , at the heads of the small glens , on boggy ground that would not drain — they were nearly helpless , they trembled on the threshold of destitution , impaled on the horn of the one-year lease , uncertain whether it was worth going into debt to improve the ground and knowing that , even if they did , they could still be turned out next term day and their place annexed to the holding of a better-off neighbour . |
| 20 | Whether it was through actual injury or through falling foul of one of the debilitating illnesses ( such as trench fever ) , we do not know . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Death is a tragedy ( ! ) and whether it strikes at an eight-year-old youngster 3. ) or a senile old man , a scar is always left on one 4. ) of the survivors — a scar that does not heal quickly . |
| 23 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 24 | It is impossible to tell , from the physical attributes of a nerve impulse , whether it is conveying information about light , about sound or about smell . |
| 25 | Whether it 's fish in Southern India or tripe in Northern England , the need to place ourselves is the same . |
| 26 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 27 | Despite Hugh 's remarks about downgrading our skills and devaluing wood , we are as concerned as the professional ( possible more so ) about ‘ promoting wood … as something with its own intrinsic beauty ’ , since we can put our heart into the work without worrying about whether or not it will sell , let alone whether it will sell at an ‘ economic ’ price . |
| 28 | If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem . |
| 29 | If there is a Will , the executor has the right to decide whether it will be a burial or a cremation , whether the Will expresses a particular wish or not . |
| 30 | Everyone has the right to a church funeral , and for the body to be taken to the church , but it is not necessary to have a service at a funeral whether it is a burial or a cremation . |