Example sentences of "whether [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the opportunity to manage and develop the legal function in the most effective manner , deciding which matters should be handled personally , which matters should be given to outside solicitors and whether or when to consult specialist counsel . |
| 2 | We know that there are in principle X young people who could qualify for that entitlement — that information is available from the census — but their choice whether or when to exercise it is not predictable . |
| 3 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 4 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 5 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 6 | Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman 's self-portrait , it is the portrait of an artist . |
| 7 | You will now perhaps be wondering whether or not you should be coached for your audition . |
| 8 | Whether or not he was equally aware of a similar alienation process in asserting the catholic nature of the nation is perhaps more open to debate . |
| 9 | Of course , Irish clergy and laity are sometimes at the forefront of political religious change in other countries , and a lively Irish intellectuals ’ religion will continue : but whether or not it will eventually affect the structure of power is another matter . |
| 10 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 11 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 14 | But the decision about whether or not to fly is left to you , the pilot . |
| 15 | If you are uncertain about whether or not you can get back with a reasonable margin of safety , make a safe landing while you can ; a planned approach into a poor field is better than an out-of-wind crash into a good field ! |
| 16 | When there is an opportunity during training for the pilot to decide whether or not a situation is safe , they must be taught to assume that the worst will happen , and then to assess whether there is a risk or not . |
| 17 | Today 's methods of birth control make it possible for a couple to choose whether or not to have a child . |
| 18 | Motability can provide the names of professional organisations who can assess the needs of the disabled person and advise them whether or not they are capable of driving and what sort of car and adaptations they might need . |
| 19 | Whether or not the opportunity is taken up is another matter ! |
| 20 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 21 | Who cares whether or not |
| 22 | Whether or not you do have a problem , you need a policy . |
| 23 | It began to seem a possibility that an external observer would be able to predict whether or not an apparently relaxed subject was forming visual images . |
| 24 | As Fergus Campbell has suggested , if the ERP can tell us whether or not the subject has seen a light , it takes the psycho out of psychophysics . |
| 25 | Whether or not we perceive an event in the world around us depends on three things . |
| 26 | Even more strikingly , the ERP will vary according to whether or not we are selectively attending to it . |
| 27 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 28 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 29 | It is the essential but usually overlooked fact that in any psychophysical experiment when , for example , subjects are asked whether or not they perceive a stimulus , their responses , verbal or otherwise , can not be relied on as accurate accounts of their conscious experiences . |
| 30 | So , in a near-threshold task the subject may be accurately identifying the presence of a stimulus which tells the experimenter that there is some kind of mental representation of the stimulus , but there is no way the experimenter can decide whether or not the subject is consciously aware of the stimulus . |