Example sentences of "not whether [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question at issue is not whether macro mutations take place , but whether they form the basis of evolutionary novelties erm and that 's an empirical question which is not easy to answer . |
| 2 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , just as much as for the British , the overriding question was not whether certain individuals should be excluded from repatriation because they held non-Soviet passports , but whether the various formations of " Cossacks " as a whole should or should not be repatriated . |
| 3 | The issue is not whether such factors will in some way be represented , because they are bound to be , but whether they are in pedagogic focus . |
| 4 | The interesting question is not whether such functions exist , for they are clearly implied in the phenomena we call behaviour . |
| 5 | Together , these two chapters constitute an attempt to address the question I consider to be of overriding importance , which is not whether male/female differences exist ( they do ) , what they are or what causes them , but what they mean : what significant social uses are made of them , or more accurately of discourse about them . |
| 6 | It 's not whether old trainers are fashionable or not ( many of the old school trainers were crap ) . |
| 7 | The point is not whether some places , or even some regions and countries should be , or could still be , protected from disruption by change , but whether this is what modern political xenophobia is actually trying to do . |
| 8 | Its tough decisions concern not whether this method of conservation is good or not ( and there are those who say that the efforts should be directed towards protecting the animals where they belong ) , but how to go about doing it . |
| 9 | The crux of the debate , therefore , is not whether social service expenditure encourages consumption and hence economic growth but rather at what stage and under what economic conditions it uses up so much labour , capital and other resources that it ‘ crowds out ’ the manufacturing industries . |
| 10 | The important issue is not whether these suggestions provide a useful starting point for thinking about the ‘ success ’ of the new authorities but that such tests have to be devised before events start to unfold in order to enable sensible evaluations to be made . |