Example sentences of "whether it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those organizations whose clients benefit from the subsidy , whether it be the private pensions industry , or the building societies or banks , would be told a year in advance what the cash ceiling was to be , and the organizations would have the task of sharing out the tax subsidy amongst customers , and potential new customers . |
| 2 | Do n't forget membership of the Squash Club also provides you with full membership of the Sportcentre , and therefore allows you to utilise all its facilities , whether it be the new 2nd Nature Gymnasia , the sauna , or just trying out some of the many activities available at the centre . |
| 3 | Section 12(3) applies to a contract where it appears from the contract or is to be inferred from the circumstances that the parties intended that the seller should transfer only a limited title ( whether it be the limited title of the seller himself or of some third person from whom the seller would obtain it ) . |
| 4 | According to Locke , however , the question is ‘ what makes the same person , and not whether it be the same identical substance , which always thinks in the same person , which in this case matters not at all ’ . |
| 5 | If she divorces Prince Charles she loses her children and the chance to use her special gifts to help those in need , whether it be the homeless , AIDS patients or victims of leprosy . |
| 6 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 7 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 8 | It illustrates , in an acute form perhaps , the frequently encountered problem of establishing the version of a text which is in force at a given time when that text has been much amended , whether it be the latest version or the version in force at a particular date in the past . |
| 9 | Compassion for the victims of this sick Tory society compassion for the millions of people who have no work compassion for the victims of racists and racisms compassion for the victims of the public service cuts , whether it be the miserable one and a half percent pay offers compulsory competitive tendering job cuts , low pay , the pensioners , the elderly , the sick , the child , the list is never ending . |
| 10 | Whether it is the first impression or first issue of the first edition may be more difficult to establish , and you will be well advised to check from a standard bibliography . |
| 11 | Any action which contradicts these laws — whether it is the working class believing that parliamentary reform can eradicate the exploitative nature of capitalism or capitalists believing that reform can eradicate the ultimate demands for fundamental and revolutionary change from the working class — is defined merely as an expression of false consciousness . |
| 12 | No-one knows whether it is the vast crowds — around 120,000 will be present over the next three days — or the mere hint that spring is really in the air again that motivates them , but Festival form certainly counts . |
| 13 | Can he say whether it is the Labour party 's policy to have a fourth boat or not ? |
| 14 | But whether it is the right thing to do is another thing . |
| 15 | Look out of the window ; there 's always something good to see , whether it is the early morning sunshine , the flowers in the garden or the birds in the trees . |
| 16 | There is quite a lot of X in coffee — probably' enough to affect directly our own enkephalin receptors — but whether it is the major stimulant remains to be seen . |
| 17 | That is why you would be foolish not to take out insurance , whether it is the standard cover arranged by a tour operator or a policy which you arrange yourself . |
| 18 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 19 | Think through your decision carefully before going to be tested and do n't be pressurised into having a test unless you have had enough time to decide whether it is the best thing for you . |
| 20 | In my experience , the teams will throw in any ball they land their hands on — no-one really knows whether it is the playing ball or not . |
| 21 | Whether it is the latest family saloon or block buster drug , the more designs that are evaluated , the higher the probability that the optimal solution will be found . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not sure whether it is the same as the one Gascoigne had , ’ said Dalglish . |
| 23 | To see whether it is the high alcohol concentration or the possible lack of stimulants or their inability to act in the presence of high alcohol concentrations that is responsible for the absence of stimulatory action of whisky it would be interesting to study the effect of a simultaneous intragastric infusion of beer and whisky . |
| 24 | Accordingly , the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a government exists as the government of a state are : ( a ) whether it is the constitutional government of the state ; ( b ) the degree , nature and stability of administrative control , if any , that it of itself exercises over the territory of the state ; ( c ) whether Her Majesty 's Government has any dealings with it and if so what is the nature of those dealings ; and ( d ) in marginal cases , the extent of international recognition that it has as the government of the state . |
| 25 | Bills of lading will need to be issued in accordance with a uniform layout , whether it is the United Nations or any other universally acceptable format . |
| 26 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 27 | This subject may send shivers down your spine , but you are right to be alarmed , for whether it is the lowly woodworm or the dreaded deathwatch beetle , whether it is dry rot or wet rot , all weaken the structural timbers of a dwelling . |
| 28 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 29 | what is there in this brochure that tells me whether it 's the first edition , the second edition or the third edition ? |
| 30 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |