Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD JUSTICE BALCOMBE said that the point of substance in the case was whether the mother 's consent was unreasonably withheld . |
| 2 | Accordingly the issue in the case was whether the removal of Bury by the visitor was valid or not . |
| 3 | The question for the courts was whether or not the decision was one at which the individual official could reasonably have arrived . |
| 4 | Erm , the confusion was whether suggestion forms should be er , restricted to suggestions about procedures in the quality system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lord Jauncey stated that the issue was whether clause 3 amounted to an unlawful and invalid fetter on TBL 's statutory power to increase its share capital or whether it was not more than an agreement between shareholders about their manner of voting in a given situation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The issue was whether he had ‘ obtained ’ the information within the meaning of the CSA 1985 . |
| 10 | The issue was whether he was the person he claimed to be , and the Court of Appeal held that this must be tested by his appearance in court where cross-examination could be fully informed by the recollections of several people in England who knew the missing heir before his emigration . |
| 11 | United States District courts , exercising the federal jurisdiction , were divided ; the argument that State law was pre-empted was irrelevant in that context and the issue was whether there was a conflict between the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the requirements of the Hague Convention . |
| 12 | More recently , in a modern banking case certainty arose when the issue was whether a char-terer had paid the owner on time . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , the issue was whether , on June 13 , the justices had any jurisdiction to set aside the convictions recorded on May 16 . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the case of Finney ( 1974 ) , where an attendant at a mental hospital caused the death of a patient by releasing a flow of boiling water into a bath , the test was whether he was grossly negligent . |
| 19 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 20 | The test was whether the prosecution could show that the tipper received some form of direct or indirect personal benefit from the outlawed conduct . |
| 21 | Lord Wilberforce , while agreeing in the result , said that the test was whether the act done , pursuant to the general intention , was reasonably capable of achieving its objective . |
| 22 | Secondly , under the 1973 Act the test was whether it was fair and reasonable to allow reliance upon the exemption clause , whereas under the 1977 Act the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract . |
| 23 | The final matter considered by the judge was whether the appellant had established the necessary animus possidendi in relation to the premises . |
| 24 | Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone , LC , said that the question was whether a parental veto came within the band of possible reasonable decisions and not whether it was right or mistaken and that there was a band of decisions within which the court should seek to replace the individual 's judgment with his own . |
| 25 | But then Timman attacked and by move 40 , the question was whether Speelman could survive . |
| 26 | The question was whether their skill and dedication was matched by organization and management . |
| 27 | But as Poovey points out , men on both sides of the dispute were agreed as to the basic nature of women : the question was whether chloroform should be allowed to tamper with it . |
| 28 | In the Fifties the question was whether you could claim protection under the Fifth Amendment , which grants the right not to incriminate oneself . |
| 29 | The question was whether , when a pagan government forbade Christian meetings for worship and required the surrender of Bibles and vessels and vestments , any kind of compromise was morally possible . |
| 30 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I held a meeting to discuss the situation ; the question was whether or not we should pull in our horns and try to placate the commercial stations and the politicians whom they had influenced . |