Example sentences of "[subord] or not a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court 's competence has been accepted to cover such matters as , for instance , Sunday trading , working hours , the equality of the sexes and whether or not a road should be built through the English countryside at Twyford Down in Hampshire . |
| 2 | I then isolated four variables that would be crucial in deciding whether or not a choice was being made : ( a ) the individuals in question ( the potential recruits ) with their existing predispositions ( interests , values , hopes , fears , etc. ) ; ( b ) and ( c ) the alternatives ( life in the Unification Church or continuing in the wider society ) ; and ( d ) the social context within which the decision was reached ( the Unification workshop ) . |
| 3 | Also , in determining whether or not a relationship is fiduciary the court will have regard to the substance of the transaction and not its form . |
| 4 | Parliament discarded the phrase ‘ those whose minds are open to such immoral influence ’ , with its overtones of whether or not a gentleman would let his servants read such and such a book , since the words ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ already carried the sense of ‘ immoral influence ’ , together with a tacit assumption that writings or other works of the imagination could have the effect of tending to make men wicked . |
| 5 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
| 6 | If there is doubt , therefore , as to whether or not a document should be stamped , and if so with what duty , the safest course is to submit it for adjudication . |
| 7 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 8 | They have a full say in selecting schools for their children , on governing bodies where the allocation of resources is decided , and whether or not a school should opt out of local authority control , a decision which could affect the status and position of history in a school . |
| 9 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 10 | This too would have raised expenditure irrespective of whether or not a Speenhamland system existed . |
| 11 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 12 | The guidance recognises that if an accountant ( not necessarily the reporting accountant ) is already involved in the management of a trust , and if trust accounts are prepared annually , then that may influence whether or not a test is done on that trust . |
| 13 | If the referee has any doubt as to whether or not a try would have been scored he can only award a penalty , exactly the decision in the final . |
| 14 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 15 | The combined effect of these provisions is that the question of whether or not a child has special educational needs depends not so much on the child 's specific needs considered in isolation , but rather on the appropriateness or otherwise of existing provision . |
| 16 | Evidence of change may be useful in deciding whether or not a child requires special placement , and it is likely to be particularly helpful when discussing the child with other professionals or parents . |
| 17 | In short , in deciding whether or not a child was being abused ( and what course of practical action to take ) , social workers were not simply relying on clinical and other sources of more objective evidence , but were being asked to make value judgements about the kinds of situations in which child abuse is most likely to occur , and the ‘ types ’ of people most likely to engage in it . |
| 18 | They use certain key criteria ( ‘ danger clues ’ ) to help them decide whether or not a child has been abused and/or is in danger of abuse . |
| 19 | The new definition of special educational needs centres on whether or not a child has ‘ a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made ’ . |
| 20 | It is by no means rare for there to be confusion about whether or not a dismissal has actually taken place . |
| 21 | ‘ A banker without money is like a doctor without pills ’ , commented American banker George Wood some 25 years ago , but a recent question for some banks recently was whether or not a judge in Chancery would dispense a ruling in their favour . |
| 22 | However , as an illustration of the significance of the different approaches to public finance , we consider the recent debate in the UK about whether or not a poll tax ( ‘ community charge ’ ) should replace a system of domestic rates . |
| 23 | In the other task , subjects had to judge whether or not a sentence followed appropriately from the preceding context . |
| 24 | Hot water is even more scarce and depends on the weather , or whether or not a fuse has blown . |
| 25 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 26 | Each member country agrees that any tariff concession or trade advantage granted to one country , whether or not a member of GATT , shall be granted to all member countries . |
| 27 | Experience teaches.a lot as to whether or not a phenomenon is likely to be a genuine signal or background noise , but there is still a twilight zone , the tantalising occurrences which are probably noise but might possibly be signal . |
| 28 | The issue is not whether or not a government is sovereign but whether that government is the custodian of a system of non-instrumental rules or is concerned with the management of a common purpose . |
| 29 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 30 | Whether or not a contract is of a personal nature is determined on objective grounds and depends on all the circumstances having regard to the nature of the contract and the subject matter of the rights to be assigned and there is no general rule . |