Example sentences of "to whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 2 | Peter Ackroyd has here performed the not impossible feat of plagiarising himself — while leaving the reader in doubt as to whether the writer shares this implausible estimate of Chatterton 's marvellous buoyancy . |
| 3 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |
| 4 | Sammut wo n't be drawn into a debate as to whether Michelin is fair to women or not . |
| 5 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 6 | You must make a value judgement as to whether you can cope with any further hard blows on the injury site . |
| 7 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 8 | Concerned as to whether he was adequately looking after himself , but especially concerned as to his future as a writer . |
| 9 | Even more strikingly , the ERP will vary according to whether or not we are selectively attending to it . |
| 10 | Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious . |
| 11 | Ultimately , the two variables of impinging stimulus and evoked sensation are internally rather than externally related ; for our estimate of the properties of the impinging stimulus — and the decision as to whether or not those properties ‘ justify ’ the sensation they give rise to — is based upon the norms of , necessarily subjective , experience . |
| 12 | Even if the majority of exercises employed are basically the same , the results will vary according to whether you work hard for short periods or do easier work for a longer stretch . |
| 13 | Also there were doubts as to whether the panelling in the proposed new location was strong enough to take the weight of the new clock and its ‘ sculptured ’ bracket . |
| 14 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 15 | No sooner had the announcement been made than it was withdrawn , pending deliberations by Lincolnshire County Council as to whether subsidisation could be considered as a way of continuance . |
| 16 | Commenting on the Bent ( sorry , this is a printing error ) Walker figures , accountants Peat Marwidk McLintock & Leigh Carr said : ‘ We are unable to form an opinion as to whether the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company … ’ |
| 17 | Some scepticism has been expressed by tenants as to whether independently judged rents will be significantly lower than those asked by brewers . |
| 18 | But the five year supply deal signed by Enterprise , by which Bass continue to provide the beers , must raise questions as to whether the letter , if not the spirit , of the Supply of Beer Orders are being broken . |
| 19 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 20 | Parajournalist and apocalyptic naturalist through and through , the novelist records anxious speculation in ‘ our town ’ as to whether the seventy representatives of the nine hundred workmen at the Spigulin factory are too many to constitute a delegation . |
| 21 | But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin group will be content to stay a minority player in the long term . |
| 22 | Sir : Your Outlook Column ( 3 October ) ended with the statement : But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin Group will be content to stay a minority player . |
| 23 | There was also uncertainty among experts as to whether it belonged to Picasso 's Blue or Pink period . |
| 24 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 25 | ‘ After Joveworth went I was really in two minds as to whether to pack it in . |
| 26 | As to whether the defendant 's claim was barred by section 10 of the Limitation Act 1980 , the defendant 's right to claim contribution accrued on the date when the plaintiff was given judgment : 6 February 1986 . |
| 27 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 28 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 29 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 30 | For new cars the length of the agreement varies according to whether you buy on contract hire ( commonly known as ‘ lease ’ ) which is for a period of three years , or on hire purchase which can be between four and five years . |