Example sentences of "and whether [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the public preference approach is not without its problems , notably how to assess people 's preferences , and whether a consensus could or should be achieved . |
| 2 | If you have paid for , or returned , any items it would be helpful if you could give some indication of the date of payment or return and whether a cheque was used . |
| 3 | He must expect to be asked , like the woman , about his recent sexual encounters and whether a condom was used or not . |
| 4 | For example , central government uses budgets rather more indirectly to fix taxes : they form the basic public expenditure requirements , but how taxes are fixed and whether a budget surplus or deficit is being planned are questions beyond the scope of the budgets themselves . |
| 5 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 6 | The questions that appear not to have been officially asked are to what extent will the projected gains accrue to areas already experiencing relative prosperity ; to what extent will these gains involve reductions in prosperity in underdeveloped/unfavoured regions and whether a transfer of some 4 per cent of the " net " gains is sufficient to compensate for such losses . |
| 7 | The insolvency practitioner appointed to prepare a report must inquire into the debtor 's affairs and submit a report to the court within the time limited by the court , stating whether the debtor is willing to enter into a voluntary arrangement ( see section 9 below ) and whether a meeting of the debtor 's creditors should be convened and if so , where and when . |
| 8 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
| 9 | Gene action is controlled at the level of transcription , and whether a gene is on or off is whether or not it is transcribed . |
| 10 | The flowchart in section 0401.3 outlines the FSA considerations for determining whether we can accept an engagement and whether a client can be treated a corporate finance client . |
| 11 | The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ . |
| 12 | Questions have arisen as to whether the use of the word " fair " as a characterisation of the price of the shares to be determined by the auditors makes their task any different and whether a valuation can be challenged on the ground that the price is not fair . |
| 13 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 14 | There is a close link between the vexed questions of whether an offer of employment is ‘ suitable ’ and whether a refusal is ‘ unreasonable ’ . |
| 15 | In the brain of this animal , there is not only a small fixed number of cells , but there is also constancy of many other features : the connections made by each cell to others , whether each connection is excitatory or inhibitory , the neurotransmitter substances released , and whether a cell is spontaneously active or not . |
| 16 | Its aim is to see whether safeguards such as standards for prison conditions , independent inspectorates , and independent tribunals in internal disciplinary hearings , make any difference to the ‘ quality of life ’ of inmates or to the good running of the prisons , and whether a failure in the effectiveness of any one safeguard has any consequences for the effectiveness of others . |
| 17 | You must gauge for yourself whether or not you have struck up a good relationship with the interviewer and whether a letter would work for you or against you . |
| 18 | The questions remain whether an arbitrator is obliged to follow the litigation practice and whether an expert is prohibited from doing so . |
| 19 | Specifically , it was hoped to discover how cyclists would use and perceive a comprehensive and integrated bicycle network and whether an increase in bicycle traffic and/or a decrease in cycling accidents would result . |
| 20 | Given that the burning of municipal waste is a major element can my hon. Friend estimate the number of landfill sites that will no longer be needed , and whether an increase in the burning of waste will lessen the problem in places such as Crossways in my constituency , where vast areas are threatened with landfill ? |
| 21 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 22 | The primary questions are whether a law has been broken , and whether an offender can be detected . |
| 23 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 24 | In the event that it is apparent that the case will , in fact , be contested , either because liability is to be denied or because the parties are too far apart in their assessment of the issues in dispute , now is the appropriate time to consider what further evidence is required for the Proof and whether the evidence that is available is adequate and sufficient for its purpose . |
| 25 | Lords Scarman and Simon have recently added a broader objective : " Whether or not judicial virtue needs such a spur , there is also another important interest involved in justice done openly , namely that the evidence and argument should be publicly known , so that society may judge for itself the quality of justice administered in its name , and whether the law requires modification … the common law by its recognition of the principle of open justice ensures that the public administration of justice will be subject to public scrutiny . |
| 26 | Any use of these facilities by a problem program must be via a request to the supervisor , which can check the validity of the request and whether the problem program is authorized to use the facility . |
| 27 | We need to know if the tap is on and whether the plug has been removed from the plug hole ! |
| 28 | But the promise in the present case must be taken to be , as in fact it was , express : and the question is , whether that fact will warrant the extension of the promise beyond that which would be implied by law ; and whether the consideration , though insufficient to raise an implied promise , will nevertheless support an express one . |
| 29 | It is not known whether these were contemporary and whether the settlement of this area was in the form of hamlets before the village was created . |
| 30 | The question has been raised over their qualifications and whether the Coastguard should have been informed of the expedition in advance , but it seems there was nothing exceptional in the fact that a school party was canoeing in the open sea . |