Example sentences of "not [vb infin] whether it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 2 | They did not know whether it cleared because people had left voluntarily , or because people had been evicted , but clear it did . |
| 3 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 4 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 5 | I can not remember whether it soared off into space from time to time , though I guess it must have . |
| 6 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 7 | She could not tell whether it had been a matter of minutes or several hours . |
| 8 | Lilly will not say whether it found a conflict in the evidence for accumulation it presented to CSM on 7 October 1981 . |