Example sentences of "not [verb] whether [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , even a knowledge of the relationship between body size and lifetime reproductive success in the two sexes will not answer whether the association occurs for reasons connected with breeding competition or because the two sexes differ in their energy requirements ( see Downhower , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | I have heard suggestions that that will be Labour party policy , but I have not heard whether the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury agrees with such a policy . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) . |
| 4 | We have not addressed whether the protein that recognises this DNA element will also recognise RNA nor have we addressed whether any mRNA molecules are encoded by this region of the PPT promoter . |
| 5 | Ron Wise , of Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre , said doctors had not disclosed whether the tumour was cancerous . |
| 6 | I do not know whether a man or a woman |
| 7 | In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made . |
| 8 | The main sponsors of the meeting , Professors Matthew Meselson of Harvard University and Carl Kaysen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , declined to answer questions about the meeting , Those who did speak to New Scientist did not know whether a summary of the discussions would be made public , |
| 9 | We do not know whether the Lady of Vix received her gigantic vase — a Laconian one ? — through Massalia . |
| 10 | I do not know whether the Under-Secretary of State for Wales will tell us when Mr. Stoner 's report will be made available . |
| 11 | I do not know whether the Minister will come back with the news that the farmers want . |
| 12 | I do not know whether the Minister has seen today 's announcement about the loss of 370 jobs at the Volvo plant in Copeland in west Cumbria . |
| 13 | I do not know whether the Minister would agree that , until now , we have heard explanations from both sides of the Chamber about the imperfect and expensive competition which has arisen as a result of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry . |
| 14 | I do not know whether the Minister agrees with the evidence given by the hon. Member for Erewash ( Mr. Rost ) and by my hon. Friends about privatisation of the electricity supply industry . |
| 15 | I do not know whether the Minister agrees . |
| 16 | We do not know whether the lake is safe for our customers to fall into . ’ |
| 17 | After three ministerial speeches , we still do not know whether the Government would veto a treaty at Maastricht that contained the word ’ federal ’ . |
| 18 | As Ingram and Redpath note , ‘ Fire out ’ was common usage for ‘ infect with a venereal disease ’ , so the line means that ‘ the poet will not know whether the Friend has slept with the woman until he sees whether he has contracted venereal disease ’ . |
| 19 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 20 | I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data . |
| 21 | We do not know whether the process would have reached its conclusion if Mr. Thorpe had not had the alternative course open to him . |
| 22 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 23 | It does not matter whether the purpose is to educate or edify , to corrupt or simply to make money . |
| 24 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 25 | For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances . |
| 26 | It does not matter whether the successor and the tenant resided together in one or more houses or whether the residences were all council houses provided they resided together in a council house at the moment of death and provided that the successor and the tenant resided together during the period of 12 months prior to the death of the tenant . |
| 27 | It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any apparent benefit thereby or not : it is enough that he accepts it , and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden , or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value . |
| 28 | Swinging a punch with the intention of striking the other is clearly caught , and it does not matter whether the punch lands or falls short . |
| 29 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 30 | In the example above , Smith would have a laterality coefficient of 0.20 while/ones would have a coefficient of only 0.14 It does not matter whether the score for the left side is larger or smaller than the score on the right since the sign of the coefficient , negative or positive , indicates the direction of any lateral advantage . |