Example sentences of "about whether it " in BNC.

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1 Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having .
2 It was just that City enjoyed one of those rare days when everything went right , even though some of the Maine Road faithful will have mixed feelings about whether it was an occasion for celebration .
3 ‘ There are many reservations about whether it would be approved ethically . ’
4 Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke .
5 They debated about whether it was right for Tinkerbell to look such a ‘ raggedy ’ fairy : should she have worn a dress ?
6 Until we demonstrate that , the case for increasing expenditure on elderly people has to be very modest , and related to what evidence we have about whether it will improve their welfare . ’
7 It is the excuse given now for all hunting , but the misuse of a concept of a practice like that proves nothing about whether it is itself legitimate .
8 Confusion increased when different industrial tribunals and different divisions of the Employment Appeal Tribunal disagreed about whether it was legitimate under the Act to pursue such claims .
9 There was then a single race , the Rouge Flamande , but plenty of argument about whether it should be uniform red or pied .
10 ‘ No , ’ said Gay , ‘ he 's not classical , whatever else he is ; besides , people always argue about whether it 's a hard or soft C. He 's rather a mystery dog , is n't he ?
11 And I think if you start analysing it and trying to think back to how or why , or questioning why it happened , you start worrying about whether it 's going to happen again , and then it wo n't happen .
12 Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) .
13 ‘ We can look at our culture in a very direct way , without worrying about whether it 's positive or negative , what anyone else thinks , and we can really identify with it all . ’
14 Out of the corner of his eye the Captain took in the man 's elegant , obviously expensive clothes , noted the perfume not quite smothered by cigar smoke , and remembered the remark about whether it was worthwhile going to bed .
15 Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not .
16 MIPS seemed a little diffident last week about whether it would be doing an R5000 as previously suggested ( UX 380 ) .
17 Now we 're talking about whether it can be a story about human beings or animals .
18 First , there is an assessment ( sometimes negotiable ) about whether it is technically within the discharger 's power to do something about the ‘ problem ’ .
19 In the flat below , a teenage couple quarrelled about whether it was safe to leave the baby and go down to the pub .
20 After eating dairy produce for a week , you should have a pretty good idea about whether it suited you or not .
21 There were always great arguments about whether it was something you were allowed or not , and that always seemed to take up half the visit .
22 One might argue about whether it is expedient for the law to forbid the use of such acts as a means of causing loss , but the privity doctrine is a red herring . ’
23 Not surprisingly , there was a widespread uncertainty about what registration entailed , about whether they were eligible to register , and about whether it was relevant to their needs , as Cragg and Dawson ( 1984 ) also discovered .
24 When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment .
25 The first is that since the person against whom the powers are being improperly exercised is entitled to resist such use , he is in principle entitled to know sufficient to enable him to make a judgment about whether it would be right to do so .
26 In the end , the argument is about whether it is worth the cost of reflecting capital values in the accounts .
27 This led to a circuitous discussion with Paul Lexington about whether it was sound equipment or not , which was only settled after much wrangling ( and , almost definitely , money changing hands ) .
28 So I got thinking about whether it should bother us that more and more people in the world today are working underground , illegally , outside the legitimate economy .
29 A debate is in progress among scholars in the arts and humanities about whether it would be right to establish a humanities research council or a humanities , economic and social research council , or to continue with no research council at all .
30 I am sure that Opposition Members will be delighted to hear me speak about the free market because they were in some doubt about whether it would be possible for Conservative Members to mention that .
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