Example sentences of "[adj] [be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is not at all clear is whether one highly visible target — incineration — is anything like a major ingredient in the pollution cocktail , even at Pontypool . |
| 2 | What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up . |
| 3 | What is less clear is whether they were cut in Kent or imported ready cut . |
| 4 | What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences , differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences . |
| 5 | Also not clear is whether any of the mothers received steroids to accelerate fetal maturity before delivery . |
| 6 | This is whether or not the information is represented statistically . |
| 7 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
| 8 | What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors . |
| 9 | Much more equivocal is whether the theory has any predictive content . |
| 10 | What is doubtful is whether the survival of those phenomena and the tardiness with which they were abolished actually reinforced the political influence of mob violence . |
| 11 | What is interesting is whether the women were there ready to work because they were marginal to the existing structure and were n't being allowed into the existing structure or , and I think there is evidence to show this , because they are actually more interested in being flexible , innovative and creative than in a tidy career track — that they are prepared to go nut and take chances . |
| 12 | Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it . |
| 13 | Maybe more interesting is whether a smaller unit , the herred , dates from the Viking period . |
| 14 | Another is whether German airmen can stay in NATO 's reconnaissance aircraft over Bosnia . |
| 15 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |
| 16 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 17 | What was never entirely clear was whether Hooliganism represented the end-point of the evolutionary deterioration of the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or just the kind of rough boys needed as a warrior class to defend the Empire . |
| 18 | What may prove crucial is whether the seller or sellers of the shareholding included fund managers Gartmore , who have not yet made their intentions clear , or Phillips & Drew Fund Managers , who are thought to be against the bid . |
| 19 | The second is whether a trust for a similar purpose might be enforced in specie . |
| 20 | The second is whether , if reference to such materials would otherwise be appropriate , it would contravene article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 or Parliamentary privilege so to do . |
| 21 | The first is whether the barrage should be given funds , and the second is whether , if someone else 's money and ideas were involved , the development should be given permission to proceed . |
| 22 | The second was whether , on the proper construction of the Judicature Acts 1873 and 1925 and the Supreme Court Act 1981 , a hitherto undetected right of appeal against decisions of visitors to the Inns of Court lies to the Court of Appeal . |
| 23 | What is questionable is whether Gandhi hypostasizes Religion or gives it a referential connotation in the same way as Tillich does by his use of the term Ultimate Concern . |
| 24 | More questionable is whether this dainty twirl of the merry-go-round will do much to change the nation — or this government 's ill-fortune . |
| 25 | What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts . |
| 26 | What is not so obvious is whether the vast sums of money that have been spent by central government and the local authorities on housing over the years have had much effect on reducing housing inequalities . |
| 27 | Not least of these is whether they are really in the business of print-on-paper publishing . |
| 28 | 683 were whether ( a ) the fact that the Bar Council , which was the accusatorial body , formed part of the Senate , which was the judicial body , meant that fair-minded people would regard the proceedings of the Senate 's disciplinary tribunal as tainted with the appearance of bias and ( b ) the fact that members of the same profession were both the accusers and the majority of the disciplinary tribunal could give rise to the same objection . |
| 29 | Actually erm Barbara took , went with her niece to , for the audition and er what I 'm not sure of , a a and Barbara got on and her niece did n't , what I 'm not sure is whether , when she went down , she was thinking that , of sort of er an audition for herself or whether they approached her because apparently they , they do n't get too many of the senior people . |
| 30 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |