Example sentences of "whether [pers pn] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happens to me every day when people come upto me and ask me whether I 'm Clint Eastwood or not . |
| 2 | Whether you are accounts manager , personnel manager or production manager , think " marketing " . |
| 3 | CATHERINE You 'll have to make up your mind , Robbie , whether you 're Robbie Gray or Robbie Cullen . |
| 4 | It 's not just oh well , yeah , well that 's alright in the bible , it is his word er which has authority , greater authority than any of the so called experts , greater authority than any of the , the deliberations of men , whether they be church leaders or anything of tha , er or anything else . |
| 5 | I feel they 're putting units into this country , why not us put a unit into their country , not to kill their women and children , but to kill the people who 's actually doing it , whether they be I R A , U D A , knock 'em out , let's have 'em out once and for all . |
| 6 | They must take account of regional and social differences between countries , and depend crucially on the local culture and the target audience , whether they be village children or police recruits . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's something for everyone , whether they be guitar aficianado , music lover , player or spectator . ’ |
| 8 | Street sellers of different kinds are an important group , whether they be street pedlars who manage to buy chewing gum , newspapers , sweets , balloons , ornaments , fruit and any number of miscellaneous items wholesale , or the women who make snacks for sale in the streets . |
| 9 | The law of confidence is concerned with the protection of secrets whether they be trade secrets , secrets of a personal nature or concerning the government of the country . |
| 10 | Our previous research had confirmed that paraprofessionals ( whether they be neighbourhood workers in Israel , home helps in Britain , village workers in India or day care workers in the USA ) perform a variety of important functions in the social services around the world . |
| 11 | The other element of group violence is of course , if there are a group of people throwing bricks at the police , or chanting or swearing at people wanting to go to work from a picket line , the law , the criminal law is designed to prove guilt against an individual for an individual 's conduct according to the preordained laws , whether they be statute law or common law . |
| 12 | It is essential that the United Nations should be in there and that , having made this contribution , we should be in there supporting it , to make sure that the inhabitants of these camps , whether they are Khmer Rouge camps , Prince Sihanouk or Son Sann camps , are properly protected against being forced , against their will , across borders . |
| 13 | Is it really necessary to explain the excitement of smashing things , whether they are milk bottles , shop windows , buses , telephone boxes or whatever , if the alternative is to stand there and do nothing . |
| 14 | Whether readers/hearers feel patronised by the reformulation in [ 9 ] ( repeated below ) will depend , for example , on whether they are John Searle or a first year student of pragmatics . |
| 15 | It does n't matter whether they are family heirlooms or bargains from the market stall ; if they 're right for the setting , that 's all that counts . |
| 16 | The students go out and spend part of each week all through the school year in the schools , and the teachers in those schools , whether they are science teachers or history teachers or English teachers , collaborate with us in helping to train those students . |
| 17 | The update includes : a full register of participants ; a widening of the scheme to take in distributors and transporters ( whether they are CIA members or not ) ; and publication of specific guidelines for making the system work . |
| 18 | One trouble with being owned by conventional shareholders — whether they are pension funds or a mass of individual investors — is that ownership is dispersed and the pressure on managers is eased . |
| 19 | The distance they are prepared and able to travel will depend , of course , upon whether they are car owners or , if not , on public transport facilities . |
| 20 | It depends whether they 're ASCII input or whether they 're binary input format . |
| 21 | There are 600-plus muscles in our body and whether they 're smile muscles or frown muscles , if you use them you 'll keep them . |
| 22 | Management have to take responsibility for over ninety five percent of the problems we get , whether they 're safety problems , quality problems or whatever problems . |
| 23 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 24 | Sometimes people think they and I think all actors are whether they 're Robert De Niro or somebody else ! ’ |
| 25 | Whether they 're table lamp , irons or cookers |
| 26 | The Cultural Revolution could in fact be defined as a process by which ‘ a highly mobilized population should permanently transform its society , led by the ‘ reds ’ , no matter whether they were Party members or not ’ ( Krug 1981 , p. 72 ) . |
| 27 | Members of an enterprise association are joined in seeking a common substantive satisfaction , whether it be profit maximization as in the case of a company or a change in human behaviour as in the case of the Anti-Bloodsports League . |
| 28 | The Wagner report ( 1988 ) suggests a nominated social worker should be involved with a client and family in all the decisions leading up to , and through any possible admission to care , whether it be day care , respite care , or eventual permanency after a trial period . |
| 29 | Among these people must be included all the great religious leaders and teachers of all time , whether it be Jesus Christ , Muhammad , Confucius , the Buddhas or any of the others , all of them mortal , none of them ‘ divine ’ . |
| 30 | Erm you earn commission by taking clients who might spend say a hundred thousand pounds on business travel , whether it be flights trains |