Example sentences of "is whether [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the important open questions is whether radiative losses overwhelm the work done by the bar when the gas reaches the outermost self-intersecting orbit . |
| 2 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 3 | More serious over the longer run is whether capitalist economies can survive a period of sustained inflation . |
| 4 | The test , in every case , is whether reasonable people would understand the words to point to the plaintiff personally , and the journalist can not escape simply by widening the net of suspects . |
| 5 | The argument now is whether new talks should be on the failed three-strand basis , as favoured by the SDLP and the two governments , or on the Ulster Unionists ' more modest twin-track approach , involving inter-party and inter-government talks . |
| 6 | The question is whether young children learn best by studying at their own pace through relatively informal ‘ activity ’ methods in small groups ( which , to some parents , looks suspiciously like playing ) , or whether they should learn the three Rs sitting at their desks in a more competitive and disciplined environment . |
| 7 | What is at issue is whether young children begin by addressing the problem in this way or whether they approach grammatical competence via a circuitous route which begins with pre-verbal social interaction . |
| 8 | The question is whether rival Boddingtons will return to the fray . |
| 9 | The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead causes intellectual impairment or behavioural disturbances in children . |
| 10 | The real test of this budget is whether economic growth has been achieved . |
| 11 | In Hungary the issue is whether stable governments can be formed from the wide band of parties produced by a complex electoral system . |
| 12 | One point which the SCA Polo Committee will discuss for the future is whether junior and youth players should be put under extra pressure in a penalty situation or whether games should be played to the first goal . |
| 13 | One question here is whether bilingual children at the early stage of producing only one label per category in fact understand only the label they themselves produce , or whether they understand both labels . |
| 14 | One is whether binary oppositions exist in language to be discovered , or whether they are constructed as a convenient method of analysing language . |
| 15 | A central issue is whether syntactic and semantic information contribute independently or interact in the comprehension process . |
| 16 | The Wall Street Journal , which talked this week of the ‘ absurdity of the charges ’ in the GAF trial , concluded : ‘ What 's on trial as much as GAF is whether federal prosecutors in the Wall Street cases know whom to prosecute , with whom to plea bargain , and whom to leave alone . ’ |
| 17 | The question is whether remedial action would impose an unacceptable economic burden . |
| 18 | The concern is whether proper doctors can be produced from a system that does not include lecture-based preclinical training in basic science , where learning strategy is left to the students , and where time is ‘ wasted ’ in poorly defined community work . |
| 19 | What I ca n't actually remember is whether Lovely War preceded my son and daughter came to Sussex . |
| 20 | The empirical question , then , is whether common sense has been so changed by the new materialist hegemony , or whether , as Gramsci believed , it still has an independent existence in modern consciousness . |
| 21 | A question with implications for policy and for theory is whether learned helplessness and self-worth motivation become more prevalent with age . |
| 22 | A question with implications both for policy and for theory is whether learned helplessness and/or self-worth motivation become more prevalent with age . |
| 23 | One of the concerns of people in the north is whether sufficient finances will be provided to ensure that the project about which the Secretary of State spoke a few months ago will be allowed to continue . |
| 24 | The factual question is whether sufficient quality of contact has been demonstrated . |
| 25 | Another is whether German airmen can stay in NATO 's reconnaissance aircraft over Bosnia . |
| 26 | Another point , if it is a final salary scheme , is whether guaranteed pension increases are given and , if so , whether these are 5 per cent increases ( or higher or lower ) ? |
| 27 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 28 | The question now to be answered is whether endogenous hormones similarly regulate patterns of growth and the formation of haustoria in the intact dodder and if so , how the stimulus of contact with the host is coupled to the action of hormone . |
| 29 | The problem in a nutshell is whether particular forms of scientific and religious commitment might not separately depend on ulterior forces of social and economic change . |
| 30 | Another consideration is whether conceptual distinctions and classifications in family and marriage sociology are appropriate to a female perspective . |