Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] a [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 2 | The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism . |
| 3 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 4 | Paragraphs ( c ) , ( e ) and ( f ) deal with the question of whether a direction would be " equitable " . |
| 5 | Our findings suggest that this inclusion is the primary determinant of whether a landmark will be used to predict where something else is located . |
| 6 | How particularly English that question of whether a chap will ‘ fit in ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ as if a person could belong to anybody other than themselves ! |
| 8 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 9 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 10 | Sure enough Jay at ten past three in the morning flits down the stairs of the crumbling house in her pomegranate kimono , mad woman in search of photo , as if a photo could help her understand . |
| 11 | She looks as if a wind could blow her away . " |
| 12 | Critics seem to view this as a cowardice , as if a boxer should want his brains pulped . |
| 13 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |
| 14 | In respect of the provision of legal aid , the test of need ( usually described as a ‘ merit ’ test ) is based upon whether a solicitor would advise a private client , with sufficient means to pay the costs , to assert or dispute the claim . |
| 15 | A pretty pass we 've come to if a man ca n't have a friend without being labelled queer . ’ |
| 16 | The courts can express the same feeling by the creative choice as to whether a defect should be stamped jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional . |
| 17 | The question therefore arose as to whether a wife should be treated any differently in this respect . |
| 18 | My Lords , we remain absolutely committed to parents being the key determinant as to whether a school should go grant maintained erm or whether it should not . |
| 19 | This approach seems to beg the question as to whether a suicide can ever be regarded as being in their right mind . |
| 20 | These clauses are also found in insurance policies to resolve disputes between insurer and insured as to whether a claim should proceed . |
| 21 | The decision as to whether a family will be started and how large it will be rests with the Parents to a greater extent than at any time in history . |
| 22 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 23 | You may wish to seek legal advice on whether a contract could be drawn up . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple . |
| 26 | But there is no real decision which has to be made about whether a child should live or die , for nobody has the right to make such a decision . |