Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The legislation regarding rabbits is extremely different according to whether the rabbit is in a laboratory , is a pet , is being kept for meat or is wild .
2 The supply is exempt or taxable depending on whether the landlord has opted to tax .
3 This observation has led to the suggestion that whether a passive margin is volcanic or non-volcanic depends on whether the site of rifting happens to coincide with the location of a mantle plume and its associated hot spot .
4 The ‘ year and a day ’ rule is a legacy of times when medical science was so rudimentary that , if there was a substantial lapse of time between injury and death , it was unsafe to pronounce on whether the defendant 's conduct or some other event caused the death .
5 The compulsion with which rights are concerned will be either arbitrary or lawful depending on whether the compulsion is exerted in known and foreseeable circumstances by known and foreseeable process .
6 Calls a function testbit written in assembly-language and delivering TRUE or FALSE according to whether a bit is set or not .
7 DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than the SQL Access Group interfaces , he says .
8 A sudden emergency may make a situation far more complicated to deal with if no plan of action has been previously thought over .
9 It was difficult to deal with as the boat had no crew.There was danger because gas cylinders had exploded .
10 Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple .
11 For example , if the job change has meant a salary increase , the new scheme will probably be more expensive to buy into as the likelihood is that it will be earnings-related .
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