Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] whether [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long debate has raged about whether the tip should be flattened or preserved as a monument of the ironstone industry . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By contrast , if a decision is to be made about whether a pupil is to pass or fail an examination then a boundary would have to be set . |
| 4 | But it will be several months before a decision is made on whether the Yoke Farm travellers can stay . |
| 5 | There would therefore be ample time for them to deploy their mobile radiation monitoring teams , for the police to tour the area , knocking on doors and warning people living nearby , for the protective potassium iodate pills to be issued and for a decision to be made on whether the public should stay indoors until the cloud had passed — or evacuate to a safer place . |
| 6 | Until a decision is made on whether the building gets listed status , the protestors say they 're staying put . |
| 7 | However , my hon. Friend can be assured that I have listened attentively to what he has said and his points will be considered carefully before a decision is made on whether the application should be called in . |
| 8 | No immediate statement was made on whether the death of Gryschenko would alter plans to continue when the race leaves Punta , bound for Fremantle , on 28 October . |
| 9 | This test is ambiguous as to whether or not D must have thought about whether the woman is consenting , but there are those who argue that one can not be said ‘ not to care less ’ about something unless one has considered it . |
| 10 | Last night , Mr Baker dismissed questions about the possibility that interest rates could be raised again and refused to be drawn on whether the pound 's dip below DM3 on the exchange markets during the day signalled a change in policy . |
| 11 | The correlations given with whether the junction was previously known or not is a point biserial correlation with data from all 30 subjects potentially available , data was coded as 1 if the junction was previously known and 0 if unknown . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sample selected should be properly established and of an appropriate size based on whether a misstatement of a particular size or frequency would affect the interpretation of data and any points of weakness identified during systems evaluation and compliance testing . |
| 14 | Would it have depended upon whether a majority of members had accepted the actions and , if so , where does that leave the dissentient minority whose membership entitles them to rely upon performance of the constitutive treaty ? |
| 15 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 16 | Between 1951 and 1971 the likelihood of the court reports of rape cases gaining publicity in the national press largely rested on whether the case was reported in the News of the World . |
| 17 | Some consideration was given to whether the defect in Form N79 could be cured by this court under section 13 of the Act of 1960 or under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , but it was held that this could not be done . |
| 18 | Consideration should be given to whether the requirement to be mobile could be restricted to particular regions while indicating that faster progression might be achieved by staff who were prepared to be widely mobile . |
| 19 | The plaintiff had not consented to run the risk of injury as he had checked on whether the car was covered for passenger 's insurance . |
| 20 | The reality of such choice depended on whether a reader cared who owned the papers . |
| 21 | Whether the employers were in breach of the statute depended on whether the machine was ‘ in motion . ’ |
| 22 | Lord Denning M. R. held that whether a hearing was required before the request that their stay be extended was rejected depended on whether the individual had a right , interest or legitimate expectation . |
| 23 | In Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 at 763D Lord Salmon explained the point as follows : In Re Hopper Cockburn CJ … was … saying that the question whether anyone was to be treated as an arbitrator depended on whether the role which he performed was invested with the characteristic attributes of the judicial role . |
| 24 | His hearse and coach hire depended on whether the funeral was to be held in town , ‘ on the stones ’ , or in the country . |
| 25 | The exact figures depended on whether the robot was used for material handling or for operating a tool , the former application displacing more workers than the latter . |
| 26 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 27 | During a visit to Taiwan in mid-November — to open a £150m terephthalic acid plant — Sir Denys claimed that the merger was still on course , but in recent weeks doubt has been cast on whether the demerger will go ahead , at least in the immediate future . |
| 28 | Doubts about the military agreement centred on whether the army and the police could work together , given the traditional animosity between the two and pervasive drug-related corruption in both forces as a direct result of low pay . |
| 29 | Questioned on whether the party 's credibility to campaign on such issues had not been hurt by its vote with the Government in order to secure seats for Scottish representatives on the European Community 's Committee of the Regions , Mr Salmond said the SNP was ‘ entitled to vote in such a way that secures better representation for the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 30 | His action would be determined by whether a duty was owed . |