Example sentences of "whether it is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is just looked at or heard , acted out or painted , a symbol arouses not only thought but delight , fear , awe , horror and the rest |
| 2 | Whether it is thereby improved is , of course , a matter of opinion . |
| 3 | With an advertisement you will often have to decide whether it is best illustrated by a drawing or a photograph . |
| 4 | However , in legitimating these tasks , the legal framework established by the state has inevitably suffered from some confusion over whether it is primarily directed at helping families to achieve social control of their children or at ratifying state intervention . |
| 5 | In I and 3 we have to assume that the ? indicates that the utterance functions as a question — whether it is formally marked by , for instance , rising intonation in the case of I , we are not told . |
| 6 | Virtually all the services which old people need are allocated through formal channels , whether it is home helps , day care , aids and adaptations , or the time of a remedial therapist . |
| 7 | Curriculum reform , whether it is centrally determined or based on local or in-school planning , is generally held to be impossible unless it is firmly based on a plan for public examinations . |
| 8 | In the latter case the net income attributable to shareholders will have to be assessed on the basis of whether it is reasonable compared with desired yields . |
| 9 | One of the issues for us here is who does this work and whether it is equitably distributed between different family members . |
| 10 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 12 | Any organisation that wants to survive and succeed must constantly question itself about how it operates , whether it has the right balance of products/skills and — most important of all — whether it is actually providing what its customers want . |
| 13 | He need not concern himself with whether it is actually raining . |
| 14 | Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] was a little surprised at Noell 's knighthood in 1662 ; whether it is sufficiently explained by the resumption of his dual role as West India lobbyist and revenue farmer cum government creditor remains an open question . |
| 15 | Is it paternalistic approval bestowed whether it is really deserved or not , or acknowledgement of output targets that are routinely reached . |