Example sentences of "[prep] whether a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 2 | It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors . |
| 3 | How particularly English that question of whether a chap will ‘ fit in ’ . |
| 4 | Irrespective of whether a horse 's bad habit is associated with anxiety or expectation , it is often best dealt with by avoiding the situation in which it appears ; until the horse 's anxiety or expectation is reduced , and a new habit of desirable behaviour has begun to form . |
| 5 | This touched on several important aesthetic issues , including the question of whether a musical sound can ever legitimately be ugly in itself . |
| 6 | The test of whether a surface needs disinfection can be made by applying the definition to a working situation . |
| 7 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 8 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 9 | The controversy about which conduct of business rules apply to a branch is quite separate from the question of whether a firm needs to be authorised , or licensed , by the host member state in order to be able to establish a branch . |
| 10 | One source of this difficulty is the absence of a duality theory , which means that there is no simple test of whether a feasible solution is optimal . |
| 11 | The determination of whether a capital instrument represents a liability is based on whether it contains an obligation for the issuer to transfer economic benefits ( paragraph 21 ) . |
| 12 | But it was confined to the specific issue of whether a duty of care existed — to establish liability , a plaintiff must also prove breach of duty , and loss caused by that breach . |
| 13 | Even if inflation can be contained , there remains the question of whether a lower rate of economic growth in the Western world can be sustained in view of the demands which it makes on the limited resources of our planet , especially food and minerals . |
| 14 | This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance . |
| 15 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 16 | Hermit crabs are able to make a rapid assessment of whether a particular shell is of an appropriate size or not , and how they do this has been the subject of much study . |
| 17 | Our findings suggest that this inclusion is the primary determinant of whether a landmark will be used to predict where something else is located . |
| 18 | In principle the question of whether a liberal democratic state can be used constitutionally to transform capitalism into socialism remains empirically open ( depending upon the definition of socialism adopted ) , with some Marxists arguing the impossibility of such a solution ( Przeworski , 1985 ) , and others that it is both feasible and welcome ( Esping-Anderson , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | Irrespective of whether a hotel is small , medium or large the basic work of the reception office is the same , selling accommodation , receiving and welcoming guests , maintaining accounting and other records , liaison with all other departments within the hotel and integrating all activities relating to the service and comfort of the guests . |
| 20 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 21 | In the end , the question of whether a function is a public one is a political question which may not always be answered in the same way . |
| 22 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 23 | But — quite apart from the issue of whether a woman like myself can in any meaningful way identify herself with women in the remote past — one must ask how could this be useful theologically ? |
| 24 | The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism . |
| 25 | The intention of the parties is determinative both of whether a third party right has been created and of the identity of any potential third party claimant . |
| 26 | This emphasis on long time-spans raises the question of whether a national space programme constitutes an example of policy or planning or both . |
| 27 | There is the issue of whether a household 's resources really are shared equally between husbands and wives . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) The question of whether a medical report obtained pursuant to section 3(6A) should be disclosed to the Crown was essentially one within the discretion of the trial judge when he has seen the report , or exceptionally , within the discretion of such other judge who has had to conduct any pre-trial review . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , he had clearly purported to pose the question of whether a caution was required , but had not answered it . |
| 30 | The mother and the guardian ad litem agreed that the conditions were met and accordingly there was no contest on the question of whether a care order should be made . |