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

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1 The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority .
2 The issue is whether the Code applied to this situation at all .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The issue is whether the health authority is , in the premises , liable to the plaintiff in negligence .
6 Reliance need not be total as the issue is whether the description is material in influencing the decision to buy .
7 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 .
8 More recently , in a modern banking case certainty arose when the issue was whether a char-terer had paid the owner on time .
9 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 .
10 In allowing H Ltd 's contentions that the mezzanine platforms should be eligible for capital allowances , Mr Justice Vinelott said that the issue was whether the platforms passed the ‘ premises test ’ — in other words , whether the platforms were apparatus used for carrying on the trade or merely part of the setting in which the trade of the companies was carried on .
11 For example , in Meade v. Haringey LBC the issue was whether the council had breached its duty by closing its schools during a strike of ancillary workers .
12 Thus in Reg. v. Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Choudhury [ 1991 ] 1 Q.B. 429 , where the issue was whether the common law offence of blasphemy is restricted to Christianity , Watkins L.J. , delivering the judgment of a strong Divisional Court said , at p. 449 :
13 In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones .
14 In the Trust House Forte case the court had to interpret the assumption that premises were available for letting for shopping and retail purposes : the issue was whether the premises were to be taken as available for letting purposes only or whether they could be taken as to be available for letting for any other purpose permitted by the lease .
15 This approach was confirmed in the Ashington Piggeries case where it was recognised that both the seller and buyer had their own areas of expertise and the issue was whether the defect fell within the respective area of expertise of the buyer .
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