Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interesting question arising from this study is whether English continues to be regarded as a subject with a mission in higher education ; and whether the view of academics differs from that of students . |
| 2 | The key is whether Richardson can rediscover his form after averaging only 18 in the World Cup . |
| 3 | Today 's well known examples of integration include such industry mammoth 's as Lotus ' 1–2–3 , Jazz and Symphony , Ashton Tate 's Framework , Microsoft 's up and coming Excel together with a host of upstarts like Twin and Integrated 7 from Mosaic . |
| 4 | Her last movie was as Patty McCormack 's mother in The Young Runaways in 1968 , but she toured with stock company stage productions in the ‘ 70s . |
| 5 | He denied the opposition was because Mr Taylor was black . |
| 6 | Forte Travel Lodge , and I thought shit , and of course the thing that went through my mind was when Graham 's out on the road |
| 7 | Erm , the confusion was whether suggestion forms should be er , restricted to suggestions about procedures in the quality system . |
| 8 | One of the questions most central to this research was whether drivers can generally report fluctuating levels of subjective risk . |
| 9 | The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club . |
| 10 | The incident was much discussed and analysed , the question being whether Hunt 's car was even with Depailler 's at the crucial juncture or not . |
| 11 | What is at stake is whether conurbations like Merseyside and Tyne side face a future as grim as the present Belfast . |
| 12 | The clearest indication of the balance between demand and capacity is whether banks are earning an after-tax return on equity capital ( ROE ) that satisfies shareholders — perhaps 15–20% . |
| 13 | The bit where the rest of the family goes out and the cat is after Stuart bores Babur : he thinks it is probably directed at the younger reader . |
| 14 | I think one of the main reasons why we would support the inclusion of a Policy erm E two in the structure plan is because North Yorkshire is adamantly a very rural area and therefore whatever happened in that rural area must be a strategic issue . |
| 15 | One issue is whether East Germany 's more liberal rules on abortion are to prevail or West Germany 's more restrictive ones . |
| 16 | Still at issue is whether BA can approach customers of Virgin without the computer data . |
| 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 decisions in the best interests of the child shall be taken by one court rather than another . |
| 20 | The issue is whether Britain is in or out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Another issue is whether brother — sister incest should remain criminal where both parties are aged 18 or over : when sentencing , the courts treat this as a much less serious form of the offence than father — daughter incest , and a majority of the CLRC accepted that brother — sister incest should cease to be an offence when both parties are aged 21 or over . |
| 23 | The remaining disagreement is whether zidovudine monotherapy should begin early to take advantage of this short-lived benefit or whether one should wait until symptoms develop . |
| 24 | But the interesting new question is whether Lynagh 's decision to play the closed Australian season with the Benetton club in Italy will prevent him from becoming the new Wallaby skipper . |
| 25 | The question is whether competition policy is seeking to raise the welfare of a particular economy , or whether it should be used as an instrument to promote economic efficiency at a supranational ( or even international ) level . |
| 26 | A more difficult question is whether employers can rely upon collective agreements to circumvent the need to make job reassignment . |
| 27 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 28 | The next question is whether B 's letter is to be regarded as an acceptance from the time when A receives it . |
| 29 | The central research question is whether wartime training altered women 's position in the labour market on either a temporary or a permanent basis . |
| 30 | A crucial question is whether Britain 's small information-technology companies will ever grow big . |