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 | Much more equivocal is whether the theory has any predictive content . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Maybe more interesting is whether a smaller unit , the herred , dates from the Viking period . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seems that more significant than whether a parent tells you you are beautiful is whether they give you the message that you are ‘ good enough ’ , in Deborah 's words . |
| 20 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 21 | What 's really important is whether or not someone loves God ’ ( my version of Proverbs 31:30 ) . |
| 22 | What is important is whether the intervention is in support of or against the state , how it is manifested and what its impact is . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most important is whether the FMS and IRF-1 data can be reconciled . |
| 24 | What remains unclear is whether this redistribution of Indonesian people has actually reduced the environmental problems associated with high populations in Java , Madura and Bali where deforestation and soil erosion are acute . |
| 25 | Also unclear was whether the commandos had , at one point , opened fire on the invaders , as claimed by the FMLN . |
| 26 | What is more pertinent is whether the different styles of the offences discussed above have some justification . |
| 27 | What remains indeterminate is whether Jesus was truly convinced that he himself had literally to die , or whether it was sufficient that he appear to die . |
| 28 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 29 | What is less certain is whether the whole complex machinery for monetary union will be in place by the start of 1993 , as most EC leaders want . |
| 30 | What is less certain is whether the whole complex machinery for monetary union will be in place by the start of 1993 , as most EC leaders want . |