Example sentences of "whether it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It does not , however , attempt to quantify the amount of radioactivity present , nor whether it poses a threat to human health or agriculture .
2 A first question is the extent to which some notion of ‘ social class ’ is pertinent to people ; whether it forms a part of their everyday conceptual apparatus .
3 On the other hand , comparisons with national data may be less relevant in that there may be broad geographical variations either in incidence or in case ascertainment that would make it difficult to determine whether an increase in Seascale or Allerdale and Copeland was a local effect ( and hence possibly related to Sellafield ) or whether it affected the whole of Cumbria .
4 SCOTVEC will need carefully to consider the validity and ease of operation of the new system , and whether it meets the needs of higher education and employers .
5 Whether it achieves the aims which constitutions are intended to help achieve , is a matter of far greater moment .
6 whether it involves a loss of status , like reduction in authority or superiority or loss of promotion prospects ;
7 Whether it allows the exercise of force to be more controlled and effective has yet to be seen .
8 Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided .
9 ( whether it take the form of cynical passivity or dogmatic and manipulative activism ) can not but be destructive of a genuinely emancipatory praxis .
10 This Autumn Statement and the new economic policy it set down must be judged on whether it gets the country back to work , reduces the dole queues and brings hope back to the British people .
11 Thus the firm in economic theory behaved identically and was subject to the same constraints whether it took the form of an individual proprietorship , a partnership or a company .
12 The status of a small-town or country station would be marked by whether it had a women 's waiting-room or not .
13 It 's thought Becky Blandford 's hat came off as she fell and it 's not certain whether it had a chin strap , like the one she 's wearing here .
14 Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made .
15 I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ?
16 Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not .
17 In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not .
18 Irrespective of whether Reagan 's economic policy was correct or not , or whether it achieved the objectives sought , the fact that the policy was put into place at all is remarkable in itself .
19 He deserved a reward for that at least , although I was n't sure whether it said a lot for his pertinacity or little for his perspicacity .
20 And if that happened , whether it became a matter for him personally and for the proposed new squad would depend on how great the scandal , how real the suspicion and of what precisely .
21 As the Socialist Challenge pamphlet The Battle of Grunwick commented , ‘ it was not made clear whether the TUC condoned the use of ‘ unnecessary force ’ against non bona fide pickets or whether it thought the police were justified in using necessary force .
22 Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them .
23 Whether the satisfaction occurred , and whether it outweighed the inconvenience of having to have an egg handy , was as hard to substantiate as most other claims for the wonders of depth psychology .
24 Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR .
25 As I went through the drab little hall , I wondered whether there was an overseas branch of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist and , if so , whether it contained a man called Danzig .
26 While the Arts Council may survive as an advisory body , the crucial question is whether it retains a funding role : ‘ The days of the arm 's length principle are gone .
27 C.C. 's task was to remember the dividing contour between the red and green section on each trial , deciding whether it matched a probe line presented after each display ( for example , in Fig. 2 the probe matches for the upper panel but not the lower panel ) .
28 The court had to have regard to the ascertainable defect in the mentality of the defendant , and whether it showed a predilection to do harm to others .
29 And to ask whether it affects the landlord qua landlord or the tenant qua tenant is an exercise which begs the question …
30 Whether it means a change of Government or not , what the business community wants is an end to the recession .
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