Example sentences of "whether or [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pacing and gesticulating , the others were debating whether or not the flat patch by the road could be widened to accommodate a drill rig by blasting the cliff . |
| 2 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 3 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 4 | More frequently , the decision to take no action over an individual 's request for assistance is influenced by whether or not the individual acts in ways typical of a gouger , in part by showing the wrong attitude . |
| 5 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 6 | The application must be supported by an affidavit setting out the grounds for the application , whether or not the official receiver has been informed of it and an estimate of the value of the assets of the debtor . |
| 7 | Dinah resolved to do so well that whether or not the young woman came back , they would keep her , Dinah Asshe , on . |
| 8 | ( c ) If the victim wants the thing during the time when the accused has dishonestly borrowed it , he can not use it , whether or not the accused intends permanently to deprive . |
| 9 | The analysis is to hold whether or not the striking similarity between the dances of the two species is the result of their common descent from a dancing ancestral species , or the result of this sort of dance 's being an optimal solution to the ‘ evolutionary problem ’ of efficient communal food use . |
| 10 | We naturally enquire whether or not the corresponding result holds in Q[x] . |
| 11 | Whether or not the private sector does use resources more productively on average than the government remains a contentious issue . |
| 12 | Such competing explanations tend to different predictions of what can be expected in early adulthood as to whether or not the former truants have , for example , experienced difficulties in the labour market or high levels of unemployment , acquired qualifications since leaving school , or met with problems in other aspects of their lives such as their marriages or their mental health . |
| 13 | ( b ) with intent to make permanent default in whole or in part on any existing liability to make a payment , or with intent to let another do so , dishonestly induces the creditor or any person claiming payment on behalf of the creditor to wait for payment ( whether or not the due date for payment is deferred ) or to forgo payment : or |
| 14 | Although Mr Taylor refused to reveal whether or not the Premier League deal is acceptable to him or his members , who yesterday gave him overwhelming support for necessary action , it would be foolish to embark on a strike now . |
| 15 | To add a new word into the dawg , the current structure would need to be searched both forwards and backwards to establish whether or not the required paths exist , which would slow down the building algorithm ( see section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 16 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 17 | These interventions should be written on the nursing plan along with the date on which evaluation will be carried out in order to decide whether or not the stated goals have been , or are being , achieved . |
| 18 | When illustrations are numbered , the frontispiece is not usually included , and a catalogue description should always make it clear whether or not the stated number of plates has taken account of it , e.g. ‘ 12 plates including frontispiece ’ or ‘ frontispiece and 20 plates ’ . |
| 19 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 20 | WHETHER or not the two Germanies are coming together too quickly , their cars certainly are . |
| 21 | Cardboard cut-outs of the two continents were made and fitted together , computer programmes written to devise the most perfect match between the two continents , similarities and the differences in the geology of corresponding areas studied ad nauseam , and even details of the animal life in each continent compared , but without reaching any firm conclusions on whether or not the two continents had ever been united . |
| 22 | A company spokesman was not able to say whether or not the two were connected . |
| 23 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 24 | The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars . |
| 25 | Expansion or reformulation should be possible whether or not the first result is positive or negative . |
| 26 | Whether or not the new guidebook 's editor includes all this in his volume will be a test of his , and the club 's position and historical responsibility . |
| 27 | All he can ( and should ) question is whether or not the asserted conclusions follow logically from the axioms . |
| 28 | One of the most scathing remarks passed during that summer 's controversy over whether or not the revolutionary putter contravened the Rules of Golf came from American legend Arnold Palmer . |
| 29 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
| 30 | If ‘ joint control ’ is established , a further analysis must be made to distinguish whether or not the joint venture is of a cooperative or concentrative nature . |