proceedings shall be public.–Times. (It has not yet been finally decided whether)
You raise the question as to whether Admiral Rozhdestvensky will not return.–Times.
I have much pleasure in informing Rear Admiral Mather Byles as to where he could inspect a rifle of the type referred to.
The interesting question which such experiments tend to suggest is as to how far science may...–Outlook.
When we come to consider the question as to whether, upon the dissolution of the body, the spirit flies to some far-distant celestial realm...–Daily Telegraph.
He never told us to judge by the lives of professing Christians as to whether Christianity is true.–Daily Telegraph.
M. Delcassé did not allude to the debated question as to whether any official communication...was made by the French Government to Germany. It is also pointed out that he did not let fall the slightest intimation as to whether the French Government expected...–Times.
41. Superfluous 'but' and 'Though'
Where there is a natural opposition between two sentences, adversative conjunctions may yet be made impossible by something in one of the sentences that does the work unaided. Thus if in vain, only, and reserves and sole, had not been used in the following sentences, but and though would have been right; as it is, they are wrong.
(The author dreams that he is a horse being ridden) In vain did I rear and kick, attempting to get rid of my foe; but the surgeon remained as saddle-fast as ever.–Borrow.
But the substance of the story is probably true, though Voltaire has only made a slip in a name.–Morley.
Germany, it appears, reserves for herself the sole privilege of creating triple alliances and 'purely defensive' combinations of that character, but when the interests of other Powers bring them together their action is reprobated as aggressive and menacing.–Times.
Such mistakes probably result from altering the plan of a sentence in writing; and the cure is simply to read over every sentence after it is written.
42. 'If and when'
This formula has enjoyed more popularity than it deserves; either 'when' or 'if' by itself would almost always give the
