Example sentences of "whether [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether through laughter or tears Hollywood was making its mark and confessions were bound to come . |
| 2 | However romanticized that account may be , it remains true that , whether through loyalty , vision or ambition for himself , Zborowski trudged the streets of Paris trying to sell Modigliani 's work to dealers , critics and collectors . |
| 3 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |
| 4 | Swisher ( 1976 ) in a thorough review of achievement in what she terms the ‘ oral deaf ’ , found problems in speech ( in word classes , in syntax and in length of utterance ) , in reading ( whether through achievement tests , completion tasks , or direct analysis of morphology , phrases and so on ) , and in writing ( where either limited or stereotyped production occurs ) . |
| 5 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild and other groups translated such feelings into a call for measures to improve the status of working class wives , whether through divorce law reform , health services or an assured income . |
| 6 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 7 | If the hostages were to die it would be because their government had failed , whether through lack of expertise or lack of interest , to find a solution . |
| 8 | CSOs may well assist doctors in the management of some difficult patients , but they will do little to assist those patients who have been denied proper care and treatment — whether through lack of resources , shortage of hospital beds , or ineffective use and misunderstanding of the powers already available under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 9 | The availability of subsidies for care , whether through insurance companies or state schemes has acted both as an obstacle to change and as a change facilitator . |
| 10 | Whatever the nature of the program , the teacher and the pupils have the opportunity to investigate and discover together whether through discussion and argument , using drill and practice program through simulations , modelling or database programs . |
| 11 | In the early years , when the portfolio was being constituted , the performance figures were of a basket of securities , united in having a common involvement in books , whether through publishing , manufacturing or retailing . |
| 12 | Unluckily , whether through carelessness or incompetence , no title deeds could be found , and he had to write to Lanfranc to beg his help . |
| 13 | Each new morning ( whether through rain or mist |
| 14 | Both characters were ‘ outsiders ’ in their own community , whether through poverty , skin colour or beliefs . |
| 15 | Wringe concludes by stating that ‘ A more damning criticism is that , whether through expediency , inadvertence or just plain lack of sufficient thought , both the concept in itself and its key proposals obscure dilemmas and ambiguities well known to political and educational philosophy . ’ |
| 16 | Does the Prime Minister agree that there is an increasing role for responsibility and involvement of individuals in improving their career prospects , whether through training credits for young people or through performance-related pay ? |
| 17 | The passage of Jupiter through your opposite sign will bring opportunities to expand your field of experience , whether through career or your personal life . |
| 18 | Given the problems we noted in measuring depreciation , the ‘ gross ’ concept is perhaps the most useful for purposes of comparison , whether through time or across countries . |
| 19 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |
| 20 | Now another Foreign Secretary , much junior much more Baldwin 's protege , whether through intention or exhaustion , was acting on this precept with avidity . |
| 21 | In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty . |
| 22 | National competitiveness — if that is defined as the ability of a country 's firms to compete in world markets , whether through export or overseas production — may be more important , at least to businessmen . |
| 23 | The inference has been drawn that these tenures , often ( though not necessarily ) on land newly cleared from forest or heath , were offered by landlords as an inducement to tenants to extend their operations , whether through crop-growing or animal husbandry . |
| 24 | It is in fact a moot point whether one would expect to be able to classify all flows as either turbulent or non-turbulent — or , equivalently , whether during transition to turbulence one should be able to designate the point at which turbulent motion begins . |
| 25 | The second largest income is provided by other forms of external hire — whether for art exhibitions or concerts . |
| 26 | The audiocassette and the videocassette have made it possible for us to have at hand and easily transport unlimited numbers of programmes in voice and vision , whether for instruction or entertainment , for a more complete understanding of news and information , or for the appreciation of beauty and artistry . |
| 27 | To design a natural language processing ( NLP ) system , whether for text recognition , machine translation or some other application , it is necessary firstly to identify the requisite components , and then to specify how they must interact . |
| 28 | Exercises , whether for translation or other kinds of manipulation , can be neatly presented in sentences , with a tick or a mark for each one , and in this way everybody knows where they are going , and how far they have come in developing the necessary formal basis . |
| 29 | Thus the question of liability , whether for manslaughter or murder , turns on the duty of the doctor in the particular situation . |
| 30 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |