Example sentences of "whether a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know from experience that many factors — some of which may never be apparent to outside observers — determine whether a prisoner of conscience is released . |
| 2 | HOW DOES AMNESTY SET ABOUT ESTABLISHING WHETHER A PRISONER IS INDEED A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE ? |
| 3 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 4 | A more reliable test is whether a fruit comes away from the plant without much persuasion . |
| 5 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 6 | Referees seem incapable of deciding whether a fast , controlled snap punch to the face has scored or not , and they generally disallow them . |
| 7 | Nick and Peter were standing in front of the fridge arguing over whether a Muscadet or a white Burgundy would best bring out the flavour of the fish . |
| 8 | Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief . |
| 9 | You may wish to seek legal advice on whether a contract could be drawn up . |
| 10 | I chose not to buy it that day , so I was interested to see whether a longer look at it would change those initial impressions . |
| 11 | Whether a compiler is a quality product soon becomes evident , and with some there is the suspicion that they were cobbled together as a response to opposition product innovations . |
| 12 | One has the sense that everyone now thinks well of Bakhtin , whether a Marxist like Terry Eagleton , a historical scholar such as Jerome J. McGann , or a practising novelist and critic of fiction , David Lodge . |
| 13 | Consider , for instance , informed discussions of sporting events , which are always displays of evaluative analysis : who played well , who disappointingly , and why and how ; or whether a team has played better at home or away , this season or last . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I had wondered whether a piece so drenched in Anglican chant ( running from Gilbert and Sullivan to Morning Prayer and back ) could rise and sail . ’ |
| 15 | But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin group will be content to stay a minority player in the long term . |
| 16 | In two cases , involving a Minnesota state law and an Ohio law , the court must decide whether a teenager should inform one or both parents before having an abortion . |
| 17 | The £18m project , including a government offer to pay for approach roads , will be discussed this month by the Highland Regional Council which must decide whether a private toll bridge is better than no bridge at all . |
| 18 | But it is impossible to say whether a structure , along the lines alleged , exists . |
| 19 | Sir : Your Outlook Column ( 3 October ) ended with the statement : But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin Group will be content to stay a minority player . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They will not tell you whether a child is going to be a good citizen , when he 's nice to know or whether he 's well motivated . |
| 22 | When considering whether a statutory redundancy payment was pay within article 119 , it was essential to appreciate that today there existed contractual redundancy payments — arising out of the contract of employment — and , by contrast , statutory redundancy payments arising out of the statutory scheme in the 1978 Act . |
| 23 | When considering whether a parent was unreasonably withholding consent to a child 's adoption , the test was not whether the court agreed with the parent 's reasons for withholding consent but whether a reasonable parent would withhold consent in the circumstances of the case . |
| 24 | When considering whether a parent was unreasonably withholding consent to a child 's adoption , the test was not whether the court agreed with the parent 's reasons for withholding consent but whether a reasonable parent would withhold consent in the circumstances of the case . |
| 25 | Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone , LC , said that the question was whether a parental veto came within the band of possible reasonable decisions and not whether it was right or mistaken and that there was a band of decisions within which the court should seek to replace the individual 's judgment with his own . |
| 26 | The European Commission of Human Rights will rule today on whether a complaint by The Sunday Times , The Observer , and The Guardian that the UK broke freedom of expression guarantees during the Spycatcher affair can go ahead . |
| 27 | In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made . |
| 28 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 29 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 30 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |