Example sentences of "was [conj] or [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The essential question was whether or not every woman is protected by the law in every situation .
2 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 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 .
5 He agreed that the courts could intervene if the question was whether or not the Commission had acted within its powers or its jurisdiction .
6 The question for the courts was whether or not the decision was one at which the individual official could reasonably have arrived .
7 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 .
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