Example sentences of "[art] issue [be] whether " in BNC.

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1 In Hungary the issue is whether stable governments can be formed from the wide band of parties produced by a complex electoral system .
2 The issue is whether this animal can be identified as the ‘ monster ’ .
3 In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile .
4 In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state .
5 Whether the issue is whether to buy a motor motor bike , what college or university to apply for , or what job to look for , a calm discussion of all the factors involved is far more fruitful than teenage demand met by flat parental refusal , with no real thinking on either side .
6 The gossips say the issue is whether OSF , under pressure to become self-sustaining , should continue to spend its resources on further development or focus its energies on its more innovative software DCE , DME and Motif .
7 In the third , medical advisers have developed a management role in the family health services authority , addressed wider health strategy , and planned practice development ; pharmaceutical advisers have led in all aspects of prescribing , involving the medical adviser only when the issue is whether to prescribe rather than what to prescribe .
8 It is important to note , however , that there is nothing inherently wrong with a conflict of interest situation in itself ; the issue is whether such a situation is handled properly .
9 The issue is whether or not there should be a strong framework and organizational commitment to instruments of public policy or whether or not there is a belief that such interventions are illegitimate and best left to the mysterious movements of market forces .
10 The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it .
11 The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority .
12 The issue is whether the Code applied to this situation at all .
13 The issue is whether decisions in the best interests of the child shall be taken by one court rather than another .
14 The issue is whether the bank can be in any better position than Mr. Aboody if , when Mr. Aboody was acting on its behalf , Mr. Aboody exerted … undue influence .
15 The issue is whether the bank can be in any better position than Mr. Aboody if , when Mr. Aboody was acting on its behalf , Mr. Aboody exerted ( or , if this had been a class 2 case , was presumed to have exerted ) undue influence .
16 The issue is whether the health authority is , in the premises , liable to the plaintiff in negligence .
17 Section 39 is not itself a legislative provision , so the issue is whether Parliament intended by the legislation conferring such powers on the Bank of England that a section 39 notice should revoke or vary an injunction , or permit a party subject to the injunction to act in apparent breach thereof without attracting the sanctions of contempt of court .
18 The issue is whether decisions in the best interests of the child shall be taken by one court rather than another .
19 The issue is whether or not the land is open land or not open land ?
20 But the crux of the issue is whether it would be good for ministers to receive more partisan advice .
21 So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one .
22 The issue is whether these men are to be allowed to opt out of the rule of law …
23 The issue is whether Britain is in or out .
24 Finley says ‘ the issue is whether this state of affairs is under , modern conditions , a necessary and desirable one or whether new forms of popular participation in the Athenian Spirit need to be invented ’ .
25 For example , " Mum , can I go out to play ? " indicates that the two people in the improvisation are mother and child and that the issue is whether or not the child is allowed out .
26 Reliance need not be total as the issue is whether the description is material in influencing the decision to buy .
27 Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description .
28 Well no the issue is whether any sector is to be discounted because because of the distribution of settlements it would be on balance , difficult to find a location for a new settlement within that sector .
29 The issue is whether or not the defendant 's lawyer should have told his client about the state of the title and the risks arising therefrom and I did n't have any difficulty in coming to the conclusion on that matter without the aid of expert evidence and erm the judge then goes on to deal with the authorities .
30 Before the House of Lords , the issue was whether the benefit to the taxpayers should be computed on an average cost basis including a proportion of the school 's overheads , or on a marginal cost basis , as the taxpayers claimed .
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