Example sentences of "[prep] whether [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even choice of proper names , or of whether to call a character fair or dark-haired , is a matter of style — in this Halliday the pluralist must agree with Lodge the monist . |
| 2 | This problem clearly relates to the question of cost and benefits of particular accounting information systems which can not be ignored in the consideration of whether to use a single factory-wide overhead rate or a separate rate for each cost centre . |
| 3 | The choice of whether to use the money wage version , , or the price version , of the Phillips curve depends upon the nature of the problem being examined . |
| 4 | Whatever the outcome of the MMC investigation is , the final decision of whether to allow the merger to go ahead or not will be made by the Secretary of State . |
| 5 | There has not , however , been adequate assessment of whether improving the oxygen saturation reduces the incidence of arrhythmias . |
| 6 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 7 | A writ will not normally be renewed so as to deprive the defendant of the accrued benefit of a limitation period , and the court does not deal with the question of whether to renew a writ after expiry of the limitation period on the same basis as an application to disapply the limitation period under s33 of the Limitation Act 1980 ( see para 1.37 above ) ( Waddon v Whitecroft-Scovill Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 309 ) . |
| 8 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 9 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 10 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 11 | In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one . |
| 12 | The arguments within the Thatcher administration went on apace over whether to swing the axe fiercely into public spending in the winter of 1980–1 , with ministers like Prior , Pym , Walker , and Carrington arguing the case for maintaining public expenditure and investment , monetarists outside the government like Alan Budd urging far more stringent monetary restraint , and Sir Geoffrey Howe at the Treasury buffeted about in between . |
| 13 | The renewed debate over whether to close the entire ancient centre of Rome to traffic , and in particular the Via dei Fori Imperiali which runs from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum , slicing in half one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the world , is charged with political meaning . |
| 14 | The Rovers directors meet this weekend in an attempt to end the dilemma over whether to sell the club 's England Under-21 goalkeeper Nigel Martyn to Crystal Palace . |
| 15 | The recent fuss over whether to build a new town at Foxley Wood in Hampshire , for example , was a case where the then Secretary of State , Nicholas Ridley , intended to ignore the inspector 's advice to reject an appeal by the potential developers . |
| 16 | There must be lessons here for those involved in the current debate over whether to build a PWR at Sizewell . |
| 17 | The decision came as the EEC dithered again this week over whether to impose an import ban on seal products . |
| 18 | 1838 coincided with the culmination of the anti-apprenticeship campaign , 1840 with the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and 1848 with the high point of the controversy over whether to maintain the West African naval squadron as the main instrument of slave trade suppression . |
| 19 | It became a parting of the ways , not a harmless flutter over whether to have a bit of a change or a grumble about poll tax . |
| 20 | As we have seen the courts have considerable choice as to whether to categorise an issue as one of law or fact . |
| 21 | We would welcome your comments on this position and particularly as to whether taking the vehicle home could be described as legitimate business reasons . |
| 22 | In any event , we would suggest that a decision as to whether to advertise the opportunity is deferred at least until you have had an opportunity to review the output of the earlier search activity . |
| 23 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 24 | Where a house has a river in front of it and a bridge across the river with a sign saying the bridge is dangerous , this is not an adequate warning , as any visitor has no choice as to whether to use the bridge . |
| 25 | The holders ' decision as to whether to convert the debt will take into account the interest forgone by such a decision . |
| 26 | The holder 's decision as to whether to exercise the option will depend on the relative values of the shares to which he would be entitled on conversion and the cash receivable , including the premium , on exercise of the option . |
| 27 | The plaintiff was volenti as he had freedom of choice as to whether to attempt a rescue and there was a novus actus interveniens as the danger had passed . |
| 28 | Discussions are underway as to whether to reinstate the Vasca del Tribolo ( at present on display inside the palace ) in the left hand arcade . |
| 29 | The decision follows as to whether to have the baby or an abortion , assuming the pregnancy is made known early enough . |
| 30 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |