Example sentences of "[noun] on whether a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ADECISION on whether a trainee journalist should be jailed for contempt of court was yesterday adjourned until next month pending a hearing in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | Thus , while all the usual contractual rules about offer and acceptance , consideration , intention to create legal relations , illegality , mistake , misrepresentation , repudiation , breach , discharge and so forth are relevant to understanding the contractual context of the reference to the expert , those rules may also have a direct bearing on whether a decision of an expert can be enforced . |
| 3 | However , whether a horse is friendly or not has no bearing on whether a horse is a good riding horse : some horses who are very good to ride show no indication of liking people at all . |
| 4 | You may wish to seek legal advice on whether a contract could be drawn up . |
| 5 | For Dr Richard Gill , senior executive in the Pharmaceuticals Division at the British Technology Group , which helps industry seek out and develop new technology originating in universities and institutes , the decision on whether a project goes ahead rests in part on animal welfare issues . |
| 6 | The subjunctive in French allows the speaker to adopt this purely imaginary position from which he can give a verdict on whether a happening should have occurred or not . |
| 7 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |