Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [subord] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts must also be made to remove the stigma of dementia so that relatives are not reluctant to accept the diagnosis , One issue is whether an early move to specialist housing enables the sufferer to cope longer . |
| 2 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 3 | Thus , if a tribunal is given jurisdiction over assault the question is whether an assault exists in the opinion of that tribunal . |
| 4 | The second question was whether an increasingly beleaguered Gerry Adams could hold on to West Belfast . |
| 5 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 6 | The issue before the court was whether an elaborately drawn exclusion clause in the bill of lading , which purported to limit liability for independent contractors , could be relied upon by the stevedores despite the privity rule . |
| 7 | The question raised by the petition is whether an order made by the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on 4 October 1991 dismissing the petitioner 's action was a final order which entitled the petitioner to appeal as of right to Her Majesty in Council or whether the order was an interlocutory order against which there was no appeal save with the leave of the Court of Appeal or the grant of special leave by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . |
| 8 | The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ? |