Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] whether a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His main powers concern external relations , defence and , perhaps most significantly for a supporter of the death penalty , the ultimate say on whether a condemned man will hang . |
| 2 | A cinema organ is like a big jelly mould , illuminated from within , a most spectacular thing that changed colour according to whether a major key or a minor key was being played . |
| 3 | Evaluations of Soviet society inevitably focus on whether a ruling group that does not own , but controls , property , receiving a salary rather than extracting surplus for its own use , can legitimately be called a ruling class in a Marxist sense in which class depends on the ownership of the means of production and the extraction of surplus from an exploited class . |
| 4 | ‘ We are actively looking at whether a smaller-scale scheme would be viable . ’ |
| 5 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 6 | They have little to do with whether a given sequence is or is not grammatical . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) The adequacy of pension funding Whether or not an insurer will wish to exclude warranties relating to funding adequacy will depend on whether a recent valuation is available from the managers of the fund and whether the vendor can claim against the valuation if the funding is shown subsequently to be inadequate . |
| 8 | The question arises of whether a solid surface of hydrogen is encountered in the ocean . |