Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when this paper on basic factors in Soviet Far Eastern policy was being composed , the late summer of 1948 , the major points of difference within the State Department were whether or not the Russians would actively support the Chinese communists in the civil war if there was a danger that they might deviate along the path recently chosen by Yugoslavia and whether , for the same reason , the Soviets might be reluctant to foster the expansion of Chinese communist influence in Southeast Asia . |
| 2 | The difference now was that while once the significant body of musicians had attempted — or affected — to snub those values , they now embraced them . |
| 3 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
| 4 | The essential question was whether or not every woman is protected by the law in every situation . |
| 5 | But the exception he contemplated was in respect of a particular type of statute , namely , a statute creating criminal liability in which the question was whether or not a guilty intention was required to create liability . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Following the end of the First World War , the leading question in the mining industry was whether or not the state would return the coal mines to their pre-war owners . |
| 8 | He agreed that the courts could intervene if the question was whether or not the Commission had acted within its powers or its jurisdiction . |
| 9 | The question for the courts was whether or not the decision was one at which the individual official could reasonably have arrived . |
| 10 | Erm now one of the things that the tenants ' action group asked us about initially when they asked us to get in involved in the , in the advice sessions in the flats , was whether or not the tenants would be able to claim additional compensation , over and above what was already being offered . |