Example sentences of "question whether it " in BNC.

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1 The validity of a patent still turns mainly upon the question whether it complies with this enactment .
2 Pat Cash is to request a wild card entry for Wimbledon , but it is open to question whether it will be granted .
3 This might well be the case , but it still does not answer the question whether it can be said that there is no morality without religion .
4 It is even a question whether it ever seriously sought assimilation .
5 Some question whether it is a crime at all ( see box on page 102 ) .
6 It 's a very complicated piece of code and there is a question whether it [ Microsoft ] can produce a mass market operating system out of something that complex — look at Unix .
7 We have examined the question whether it is feasible to test the efficiency arguments by econometric means .
8 It addresses the question whether it would in fact pay us to do the right thing .
9 It still remains a question whether it all works physically .
10 Yes well I I , I mean you erm you posed the question whether it was a good or bad thing , this change erm I can only the results of the change and what would have happened if the change had not taken place or try to er see what the change , it would seem to me that the alternative er would have been a continuance of er possibly erm a kind of Kuomintang erm type of policy which encouraged erm other nationalities to develop China as beginning to happen now .
11 But it is submitted that a ‘ body of persons ’ has a collective character independently of the question whether it is a mercantile body or not , which the law is bound to protect ; in other words that any such body can sue in respect of an imputation of any conduct whatsoever of which its agents , and therefore itself by its agents , can be guilty .
12 But this is irrelevant to the question whether it is in relation to the grant of a further advance .
13 19 , turned to the question whether it was appropriate to grant the council interlocutory relief .
14 ( 4 ) If the provision of a specimen other than a specimen of breath may be required in pursuance of this section the question whether it is to be a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine shall be decided by the constable making the requirement , but if a medical practitioner is of the opinion that for medical reasons a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken the specimen shall be a specimen of urine .
15 Your Lordships then invited the parties to consider whether they wished to present further argument on the question whether it was appropriate for the House ( under Practice Statement ( Judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1234 ) to depart from previous authority of this House which forbids reference to such material in construing statutory provisions and , if so , what guidance such material provided in deciding the present appeal .
16 I do not consider that it would help towards the solution of your Lordships ' present problem for me to discuss further the points which arose in Morris ( including the question whether it really is an example of theft ) or in the many other cases on section 1(1) which have occupied the anxious attention of the courts and the academic writers .
17 The negative impact of the market invites the question whether it might be desirable to find a substitute for , and not merely a supplement to , the discipline the latter market provides .
18 ‘ Maybe so , yet any man must at some point question whether it is chance or fate that brings things to pass ; whether he is the author or merely the agent of his actions . ’
19 A difficulty of interpretation arises over the question whether it must be the constable who warns who effects the arrest .
20 This practice is inconvenient , and comparison with Community regulations ( or , for that matter , with British secondary legislation ) prompts the question whether it might not be possible to reduce the use of separate commencement orders for Acts of Parliament .
21 The question whether it would ever be right to move to one at some distant date is separate .
22 It is not a question whether it is a separate country — it obviously is not .
23 That association is particularly concerned about a measure that is proceeding through the other place and the question whether it will be dropped and be replaced by the provisions relating to canals in this legislation .
24 But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal .
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