Example sentences of "whether [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt she will grow into a songwriter of some depth and power ; whether she acknowledges any responsibility for breaking new ground for women in rock is another matter . |
| 2 | Gloria , 52 , is coy about whether she has any plans to marry longtime partner Neagle Cathcart , 37 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether she has any boyfriend , more a case of which boyfriend she 'll be with . |
| 4 | Whether one names this position absolutism or relativism may be left to the reader 's discretion , but it is neither the absolutism which ascribes unconditional authority to universal standards ( 'It is wrong to take human life even in self-defence' ) nor the relativism which is neutral between judgements of a particular act ( ‘ You think Hitler was right to massacre them , I think he was wrong . |
| 5 | Again this represents a considerable increase over the national rates whether one considers lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas or all malignant disease and for both 1963–90 and 1984–90 . |
| 6 | Whether one accepts that view or not — and I do not think that it is valid in its simple form ( see Fine and Harris ( 1985 ) ) — it is a powerful one ; in that context , the fact that the proportion of foreign assets in UK pension funds ' total investments has risen is a mark of the power that the post-1979 boom in the City 's foreign investment has had . |
| 7 | Whether one views this level of success as notable or disappointing is largely a function of personal perspective and professional choice . |
| 8 | That is , it may be arbitrary whether one classifies lions as Panthera leo or Felis leo , but not whether one classifies all lions into one species or several . |
| 9 | In practical terms , whether one has realistic access to the power to initiate a legislative proposal may be as important as whether , once a proposal is initiated , one has a say in whether it is adopted or not . |
| 10 | In the light of these facts , the interesting question is whether there exists any relationship between the two triads — on the one hand the abolition of private property , religion and the family and on the other economic inefficiency , religious persecution and political terror . |
| 11 | Though Kasdan appears to disapprove of the Joel Silver style of wham-bam slam-bangers , it 's impossible to tell whether he thinks such films have been instrumental in the decline of western civilisation . |
| 12 | The 500th anniversary of his birth provides a convenient moment to consider whether he deserves wider recognition . |
| 13 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 14 | Sebastian de Ferranti , Basil 's brother and now a director of Ferranti 's competitor GEC , is a trustee of the interests but it is not clear whether he shares these views . |
| 15 | No-one cares how a construction worker talks or whether he has much education . |
| 16 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 17 | I do not doubt the hon. Gentleman 's aspiration to get people off the dole queue , but I doubt whether he has any policies to achieve that . |
| 18 | Mr. Denzil Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he has any plans to meet in the near future the chairman of British Coal to discuss the state of the Welsh coalfield . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to close or amalgamate rural magistrates courts in England and Wales during the next 12 months . |
| 20 | To ask the Prime Minister whether he has any plans to make an official visit to Romford . |
| 21 | To ask the Lord President of the Council whether he has any plans to change the rota of departmental and Prime Minister 's questions ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to introduce direct elections to police authorities . |
| 23 | To ask the Minister for the Arts whether he has any plans to visit Barnet to discuss the private sponsorship of the arts . |
| 24 | To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he has any plans to visit the Duchy in the near future ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 25 | Will the Prime Minister tell the House whether he has any intention of reversing such cuts ? |
| 26 | Request his views on whether the meeting is making progress at the right pace and whether he has any ideas on ways of moving things forward . |
| 27 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 28 | Mr Dole hopes this year to slip a repeal measure through the Senate attached to another bill , but it is too early to tell whether he has enough support . |
| 29 | A child putting a straw into each of the bottles in the crate will not know whether he has enough straws for bottles until he has distributed them one-to-one . |
| 30 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |