Example sentences of "[noun] is whether it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
| 2 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 3 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | The Victorian obsession with comfort has some relation to this conviction , for the first and even the final — test of a home is whether it makes the visitor feel at ease . |
| 5 | While the Arts Council may survive as an advisory body , the crucial question is whether it retains a funding role : ‘ The days of the arm 's length principle are gone . |
| 6 | The crucial question is whether it manages to liberate at least as much energy from fusions as was expended in running a particle accelerator to produce that muon in the first place . |
| 7 | Rather than ask whether a NATO tank remains superior to a Soviet tank , the relevant question is whether it remains superior to four Soviet tanks . |
| 8 | The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it . |
| 9 | Like any other scientific theory , it may initially be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons , but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observation . |
| 10 | In the end , what matters most about the Clinton package is whether it convinces most people that a bit of pain is worthwhile , that there 's a future to aspire to . |
| 11 | Also , pragmatists draw the very different moral that the test of a theory is whether it organizes our beliefs into an elegant and suggestive web of belief . |
| 12 | A crucial question about the growth of the welfare state is whether it undermined employers ' control over labour by reducing the compulsion to work . |
| 13 | Thus the criterion proposed in the Discussion Paper and the FRED to determine whether a capital instrument represents a liability is whether it contains an obligation to transfer economic benefits . |
| 14 | An important question to ask about any new movement in social psychology is whether it proposes a universal or particular perspective . |
| 15 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 16 | The test of the usefulness of an idea is whether it contributes much or anything to meeting two dimensions of any problem : |