Example sentences of "whether [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to imprisonment , those believed to have advocated Irian Jaya 's independence , whether through peaceful or violent means , continue to be at risk of torture , ill-treatment , ‘ disappearance ’ , and extrajudicial execution by Indonesian security forces . |
| 2 | Some headway was made in expanding self-sufficiency , whether through utilising more land for agriculture , developing home economies , or encouraging local manufacturers and products . |
| 3 | National competitiveness — if that is defined as the ability of a country 's firms to compete in world markets , whether through export or overseas production — may be more important , at least to businessmen . |
| 4 | However romanticized that account may be , it remains true that , whether through loyalty , vision or ambition for himself , Zborowski trudged the streets of Paris trying to sell Modigliani 's work to dealers , critics and collectors . |
| 5 | Wringe concludes by stating that ‘ A more damning criticism is that , whether through expediency , inadvertence or just plain lack of sufficient thought , both the concept in itself and its key proposals obscure dilemmas and ambiguities well known to political and educational philosophy . ’ |
| 6 | We are all party to exploitation , whether through the food we eat , the products we buy , or the taxes we pay . |
| 7 | We were created for relationship and most of our learning happens in a context of relationship , whether through talking , questioning , discussing , telling , off-loading , or through listening , watching , considering , receiving , taking in . |
| 8 | Service points which have acquired a reputation for losing books — whether through their own or their public 's machinations — are to be avoided . |
| 9 | Each new morning ( whether through rain or mist |
| 10 | Someone investing in only one or two shares , whether through a PEP or not , is exposed to a much greater risk than if they put the same sum into some form of collective investment . |
| 11 | The passage of Jupiter through your opposite sign will bring opportunities to expand your field of experience , whether through career or your personal life . |
| 12 | Unluckily , whether through carelessness or incompetence , no title deeds could be found , and he had to write to Lanfranc to beg his help . |
| 13 | Whatever the type of residency it is interesting and helpful to evaluate your experience whether through an exhibition or a written report . |
| 14 | Swisher ( 1976 ) in a thorough review of achievement in what she terms the ‘ oral deaf ’ , found problems in speech ( in word classes , in syntax and in length of utterance ) , in reading ( whether through achievement tests , completion tasks , or direct analysis of morphology , phrases and so on ) , and in writing ( where either limited or stereotyped production occurs ) . |
| 15 | Whether through laughter or tears Hollywood was making its mark and confessions were bound to come . |
| 16 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 17 | The availability of subsidies for care , whether through insurance companies or state schemes has acted both as an obstacle to change and as a change facilitator . |
| 18 | Government 's most cherished social policies may be enforced against local opposition , whether through the courts , dismissal of authorities which fail to set budgets , or through the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ over a recalcitrant agency . |
| 19 | We must dump the debilitating notion that there is only one true way to fight the poll tax , whether through parliamentary or non-payment . |
| 20 | Now another Foreign Secretary , much junior much more Baldwin 's protege , whether through intention or exhaustion , was acting on this precept with avidity . |
| 21 | It was the bond which united people in mutual obligations , whether through a marriage contract , a commercial enterprise or a verbal undertaking . |
| 22 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 23 | For all three authors the ultimate source of royal authority is not God , or tradition , but the people , whether through some original popular decision to set up a monarchy , or through a constantly renewed popular choice of rulers . |
| 24 | In the early years , when the portfolio was being constituted , the performance figures were of a basket of securities , united in having a common involvement in books , whether through publishing , manufacturing or retailing . |
| 25 | If the hostages were to die it would be because their government had failed , whether through lack of expertise or lack of interest , to find a solution . |
| 26 | Even in private industry , some of the largest job losses of the 1980s have resulted from government policies , whether through economies in defence spending ( with effects on British Aerospace and West land Helicopters ) , changes in orders for power stations ( with effects on Northern Engineering Industries ) , or job losses before and after privatization of nationalized industries ( as with the ‘ break up ’ of the British Leyland and British Shipbuilders groups ) . |
| 27 | No matter how Boswell did it physically — and later it will transpire that he wrote some of it in a notebook Johnson gave him ; no matter how he proceeded editorially , whether through a combination of this abbreviated writing , then checking afterwards what was said , and finally choosing — or agreeing — how much of Johnson 's commentary and observation he should release , Boswell achieved something at least as important as a legally accurate record — he created , above everything , the feel of a full account . |
| 28 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |
| 29 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |
| 30 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild and other groups translated such feelings into a call for measures to improve the status of working class wives , whether through divorce law reform , health services or an assured income . |