Example sentences of "say whether [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | On the subject of making up his mind or the minds of parties in Scotland , can the Secretary of State say whether the Conservative candidate in Kincardine and Deeside supports that aspect of Conservative party policy ? |
| 3 | Since yesterday 's decisions are clearly further progress towards European union , can the Prime Minister say whether the United Kingdom has moved any closer to the acceptance of a single European currency ? |
| 4 | Indeed allow can even represent the existence of permission without saying whether the permitted action is carried out or not : ( 212 ) A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling 's impacts , on prior-year returns still under review , for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products . |
| 5 | But it is impossible to say whether a structure , along the lines alleged , exists . |
| 6 | It is easier to say whether a man has paid the money or not than to say whether he has complied with other orders ; and if he fails to pay , it is easy to get the money by selling his goods , if he has any . |
| 7 | It is also difficult to say whether a change at the top would affect the Direction des Musées de France at the heart of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 8 | It 's not up to a writer to say whether a book works or not , but the point is that you can have good ideas and write bad novels from them ! |
| 9 | The first condition used a visual-judgement task in which subjects had to say whether a word such as " bury " looked like any of the words in the following sentence : Yesterday the grand jury adjourned . |
| 10 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 11 | I say " in principle " because , life being what it is , there are many occasions when it is impossible to say whether a story is a pure detection affair or one partaking of more of the crime element . |
| 12 | It is not possible to say whether a substantial report is more likely to make an impact than a slim report . |
| 13 | The court should not substitute its own decision for that of the parent but had to say whether the parents ' decision was outside the band of reasonableness . |
| 14 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 15 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 16 | In these tests , two lines of obviously different lengths are exhibited for a very short period of time , and the subject has to say whether the right or the left line was the longer . |
| 17 | Support from other UK insurance companies has been mixed — ‘ it is a very conservative sector ’ , he says — and it is too early to say whether the method will be generally accepted . |
| 18 | Since this is inextricably bound up with women 's position in society as the prime providers of such tending , it becomes difficult to say whether the depressed status of such work is a result of a system of male domination of women or whether such work has been allocated to women as part of that process . |
| 19 | Nor is it easy to say whether the number of towns or the size of the biggest is the better index of urban development . |
| 20 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 21 | Tandem declined to say whether the new operating system will come out on current or future Tandem Integrity machines , all based on MIPS chips . |
| 22 | So , until the decision is made again , it is not possible to say whether the loss would not have been suffered but for the illegal decision . |
| 23 | It is difficult to say whether the rewards of office increased in real terms during the Tudor period . |
| 24 | In the category judgement task , they had to say whether the word " games " had any category members in Everyone at home played monopoly . |
| 25 | It is not for me to say whether the judges or the Lord Chief Justice should or will consent . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it is usually impossible to say whether the effects of a lesion in one hemisphere , in terms of loss or impairment of a particular function , follow from the destruction of the true neural locus of that function , or instead reflect the influence of abnormal tissue on other brain areas that actually subserve the function in question . |
| 27 | And in such a situation it becomes difficult to say whether the temporary worker is brought in because of a shortage of permanent staff or because there is ( now ) a once-off task to be performed . |
| 28 | Within the framework of this short debate the Minister has an opportunity to say whether the Government will give any substance to their words . |
| 29 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |
| 30 | It is impossible to say whether the younger Eratosthenes ( F.Gr.H. no. 745 Jacoby ) who wrote his books on Gaul about this time , 150 B.C. , had been encouraged by the Romans . |