Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are still looking for where the boy could have been ? ’ |
| 2 | Autonomy however should not imply total independence for although the manager may divest his authority to the surveyor to run the job on site , he is still ultimately responsible and must show support at all stages . |
| 3 | Under pressure from professional and voluntary organisations during the debates on the Bill , the government was forced to tackle the question of whether every child could indeed follow the National Curriculum . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Paragraphs ( c ) , ( e ) and ( f ) deal with the question of whether a direction would be " equitable " . |
| 8 | Our findings suggest that this inclusion is the primary determinant of whether a landmark will be used to predict where something else is located . |
| 9 | How particularly English that question of whether a chap will ‘ fit in ’ . |
| 10 | So for example , er on Russo 's model we saw the people are not consultive on the issue of whether the State should go to war or not , because that 's a particular act and must be left to the executive . |
| 11 | Another issue , which commentators are keen to see debated widely , is the question of whether the Institute can effectively carry out the dual roles of protecting the interests of both the public and its members . |
| 12 | That left the issue of whether the judge should have excluded the statement under section 78 . |
| 13 | This is true regardless of whether the child will be born into poverty . |
| 14 | At best it is an armchair consideration of whether the case would stand up in court . |
| 15 | ( It may seem ironical that the initial question of whether the case should go to arbitration or trial involved three hearings — two in the county court and one in the Court of Appeal . ) |
| 16 | There was further dispute later in the year over the issue of whether the country should retain its current presidential system of government or should adopt a prime ministerial system . |
| 17 | For the minority in the Labour Cabinet who opposed the cut in the standard rate of benefit had divided the Labour government , not on the question of whether the budget should be balanced , but , so they claimed , on the subordinate question of how the budget should be balanced . |
| 18 | Well it does really , I mean if we , it 's a question of whether the budget will stand the staff , is n't it , it 's not whether we , er I mean in terms of of redundancies it 's whether we cou , if we appointed people we could afford to keep them on , whether or not there was work , I mean we could have create work in some senses . |
| 19 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 20 | The question of whether the queen would survive was not the only problem created by James V 's early death . |
| 21 | This way you will have a better idea of whether the job will suit you , you avoid wasting your and the interviewer 's time , and you sidestep one possibility of creating a negative impression . |
| 22 | The style and method of management matter less than the question of whether the headteacher can collaborate with other schools and is prepared to make adjustments and concessions in the way the school is run in order to allow better pooling of time , staff or other resources . |
| 23 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 24 | Once the pursuit is on , it is simply a matter of whether the killer will start to tire before it manages to reach its victim . |
| 25 | In theory , any matter which is relevant to whether the applicant should be awarded a remedy at the hearing stage is also relevant to the decision at the hearing stage of whether the application should be allowed to proceed ; in other words , leave to apply for judicial review can be refused on any ground on which a remedy could be refused at the hearing stage . |
| 26 | This , of course , is subject to the question of whether the producer should have recalled the furniture if the risk was great , or issued warnings to retailers to pass on to consumers . |
| 27 | Policy H two and the matters which are outstanding from our discussion yesterday are those which relate to the criteria and also the question of whether the policy should include specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 28 | The question of whether the non-Japanese should imitate the bow of the Japanese is controversial within Japan itself . |
| 29 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |
| 30 | With photography , and the uncertainty of whether the picture would be a success , there could be no such climax . |