Example sentences of "[prep] whether it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
| 2 | Regardless of whether it is called a ‘ top down ’ model or an elective dictatorship , the formal concentration of political authority in Britain is remarkable . |
| 3 | In fact , ‘ Regardless of whether it is called ethos , source credibility , status differential , opinion leadership , charisma or power , the conclusion seems inescapable — who you are can influence how your messages are received . |
| 4 | Yet here is a natural means of self-gratification and of relief from sexual tensions which build up in all of us , which is widely viewed ( regardless of whether it is practised ) as somehow wicked , aberrant , distasteful or shameful . |
| 5 | The question of whether a decision was ‘ legal or not ’ is sometimes put in terms of whether it was made ‘ within or without jurisdiction ’ or whether it is ‘ intra vires or ultra vires ’ ( that is , literally , ‘ within or beyond power ’ ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the evidence showed that the defendants were determined to bring the contractual relationship to an end if they could , regardless of whether it was done in breach or not . |
| 7 | This belief , regardless of whether it was justified or not , both stopped leaders acting contrary to public opinion and persuaded citizens to accept the legitimacy of laws they did not themselves agree with . |
| 8 | Leave aside , for the moment , the question of whether it was justified in principle . |
| 9 | The investment bank therefore had a powerful incentive to make sure its client won its bids , regardless of whether it was paying too much . |
| 10 | In practical terms , whether one has realistic access to the power to initiate a legislative proposal may be as important as whether , once a proposal is initiated , one has a say in whether it is adopted or not . |
| 11 | Different elements of the term objectification may be emphasized , depending upon whether it is applied to the process of ontogenesis , culture or modernity . |
| 12 | The privately rented sector has traditionally been enumerated according to whether it is let furnished or unfurnished , with the latter usually providing somewhat greater security of tenure . |
| 13 | It is however a controversial project because of the cost of its electricity and the question as to whether it is needed at the present time despite electricity being the main growth area in the Brazilian energy demand picture . |
| 14 | There 's still always the argument with certain firms as to whether it was done before or after . |
| 15 | There is an issue as to whether it was cemented into the plinth … |
| 16 | I think if we had a if we if we tried , as you say , labelled the leads and tried to keep the leads together with the video recorders and perhaps stick a think on the video recorder saying which leads belong to this particular thing then the problem would be 'cos this would provide you with a checklist whenever you lent it out as to whether it was coming back , or provide the leads in other words |
| 17 | To recapitulate , the effect of the complicated network of legislation which was now ( 1954 ) in force was basically to create two values of land according to whether it was sold in the open market or acquired by a public authority . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) The very process of production may or may not be auratic , depending again on whether it is individualized or collective , and the extent to which it is expressive ( auratic ) or impersonal ( nonauratic ) . |
| 19 | In English , there is at least an indirect formal reflexion of the difference , in that the phrase an old friend has as its opposite either a new friend or a young friend , depending on whether it is used as a separative or an ordinary attributive adjective . |
| 20 | The commission is stopping it because the British Government will not make up its mind on whether it 's gon na back the money . |
| 21 | It depends on whether participation is voluntary and on whether it was known to involve normative consequences . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | First , theory needs to be explicit about whether it is dealing with symmetrical or asymmetrical , reversible or irreversible relationships . |