Example sentences of "whether as a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urquhart widened his eyes slightly , whether as a gesture of surprise or warning — since the waiter came up behind her just then and was about to remove their dirty plates — she could not be sure . |
| 2 | Causation in fact deals with the question of whether as a matter of fact the damage was caused by the breach of duty . |
| 3 | Whether as a result of this criticism or not , in the year after Chernobyl the amount allocated to public relations and publicity by the CEGB almost doubled — from £6.3 million to £12.4 million . |
| 4 | The traumatic effects of resettlement , whether as a result of dam projects or a state-sponsored attempt to relieve population pressure , often reduce the ability of the settlers to adapt satisfactorily to their new environment . |
| 5 | ( c ) She had developed a severe pneumonia and , whether as a result of the accident or the pneumonia or both , was in severe pain . |
| 6 | With the ANLT system these sentences had achieved very poor results whether as a result of the grammatical construction being absent from the grammar or through computational failure of the system . |
| 7 | For the purchaser , it is important to consider whether as a result of the assignment the purchaser will be able to enforce the benefit of the contract directly against the supplier or whether such benefit can only be enforced with the co-operation of the vendor . |
| 8 | But while some of these cases are of this simple kind , others are more directly involved with modern market conditions , whether as a form of investment or as a form of prestige advertising . |
| 9 | Moreover , moving from the official to the private level , there was a significant and regular cross-border movement of ordinary individuals , if only because of the existence in both countries of Shiite Holy Places — in particular , Qom and Mashhad in Iran , Najaf and Karbala in Iraq — which attracted visitors , whether as a form of pilgrimage or to bury their dead . |
| 10 | Both composers seek to create a sense of ‘ objectivity ’ in their evocations of nature , whether as a record of topographical outline ( Mason ) , or a mimesis of geological deep-structures and seismic motion ( Birtwistle ) . |