Example sentences of "whether it be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it be supermarkets , banks , car giants , finance houses , tour operators or manufacturers , the impact can be devastating and cost millions in wasted advertising and lost sales revenue . |
| 2 | I can only emphasise the point that Her Royal Highness has already made on the requirements for us to have a much larger membership to allow us to speak with strong voice in the many debates we find ourselves involved on behalf of our sport whether it be windsurfers , dinghies , offshore sailing craft , motor cruisers , powerboat racing , anything that virtually goes on the water we look after . |
| 3 | Immediately we get into dowsing for ‘ energy ’ , whether it be lines or points or spirals , we have a problem of tuning in to what we want to find . |
| 4 | Erm you earn commission by taking clients who might spend say a hundred thousand pounds on business travel , whether it be flights trains |
| 5 | Product quality at the Essex factory is also inferior , measured against any index , whether it be ratings out of 10 , defects per vehicle or warranty costs on each car leaving the factory gate . |
| 6 | Everyone has added to/amended the English language whether it be invaders ( Romans , Saxons , Normans , Americans etc ) or invaded . |
| 7 | What characterises oral societies , and justifies drawing the distinction between them and ‘ literate ’ societies , is that ‘ all beliefs , and values , all forms of knowledge , are communicated between individuals in face-to-face contact ; and , as distinct from the material content of the cultural tradition , whether it be cave-paintings or hand-axes , they are stored only in human memory ’ ( ibid. p. 29 ) . |
| 8 | Right , and that increase in production has come about through the use of technology , whether it be agro-chemicals , better seed varieties , more mechanization , technology has increased production per unit of land , alright , per unit of labour . |
| 9 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 10 | Privatisation was particularly valued by the young , whether it be prisons , motorways , transport or care of the elderly . |
| 11 | The quality of the user interface , such as whether it is windows based , is normally a feature of the related text information management package . |
| 12 | Whether it is clients or advice workers who are resistant , the stumbling block will need to be explored in order to further convincing social policy work . |
| 13 | Whether it is silks or suits , jewellery or watches , there are hundreds of shops and stalls offering bargains to haggle over . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , sport can not afford to be soft on those who cause the problems — whether it is athletes who , as drug users , habitually cheat , or the spectators who take the law into their own hands and invade football pitches . |
| 15 | Lots of people qualify for help with their Council Tax whether it 's exemptions , discounts or rebates . |
| 16 | Whether it 's musicals , drama , family entertainment , opera or comedy you are after , there is something for everyone . |
| 17 | whether it 's services or goods |
| 18 | Whether it 's potatoes or plums , lettuces or leeks , mushrooms or mangoes , the English greengrocery trade is reluctant to handle any produce which does not conform to a given size , a given number to the pound . |
| 19 | And what we 're doing is if you just look at your pack now , everybody who writes to us , it does n't matter what they want , whether it 's favours of crackers , they 're getting a brochure which you know our brochure , which has the favours and crackers on . |
| 20 | And whether it 's Gardeners ' Question Time or Muck and Magic , the central person is a man who seems like the ultimate expert . |
| 21 | I , I just wonder whether it 's voles . |
| 22 | Whether it 's boots or shoes , slip-ons or sandals , you 're bound to take a shine to the latest in leather . |
| 23 | Whether it 's watersports like jet skiing and waterskiing or local nightlife , you 'll find everything within easy walking distance of this ideal hotel . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's hard for people to really understand and identify with a problem , whether it 's Aids , Somalia or pollution , until they really get to see it first hand , ’ reflects Hines . |
| 25 | Ties talk , and whether it 's stripes or squares , kippers or cravats , there 's always a message … right school , right club and now , right designer |
| 26 | Whether it 's landscapes or portraits you want , you can always be sure of getting perfect enlargements . |
| 27 | ‘ It does n't matter what people have got , whether it 's photographs , programmes , even if they 've got memories in their head they can write down . |
| 28 | Och , I ca n't remember , Diazepam , took one of them at , whether it 's nerves or what |
| 29 | He is one of the finest hairdressers we have and there is nothing he ca n't do with hair ; whether it 's chignons for Princess Alexandra , wigs for Cher of shoots for vogue . |
| 30 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |