Example sentences of "issue [be] not whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important issue is not whether these suggestions provide a useful starting point for thinking about the ‘ success ’ of the new authorities but that such tests have to be devised before events start to unfold in order to enable sensible evaluations to be made . |
| 2 | The issue is not whether the UK should back nuclear safety research at Ispra ( those of us in the field in the UK are all in favour of that ) , but whether the majority of the resources ( and even an increase in the planned budget ) should be concentrated on a single project which can not possibly give results until late 1986 . |
| 3 | The issue is not whether such factors will in some way be represented , because they are bound to be , but whether they are in pedagogic focus . |
| 4 | Thus , the issue is not whether the state is an association defined in terms of law , but whether this law is instrumental or non-instrumental . |
| 5 | The issue is not whether or not a government is sovereign but whether that government is the custodian of a system of non-instrumental rules or is concerned with the management of a common purpose . |
| 6 | From a social policy point of view the issue is not whether to allow pollution , but how much pollution to allow ( see Ackerman et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | The issue is not whether we should study the constitution , but the problem is one of deciding just what is the constitution and determining how best to study it . |
| 8 | So far as mens rea is concerned , the issue is not whether the defendant himself considered that the words or conduct in question was insulting , but whether he realised that the persons whom he was addressing might do so . |
| 9 | The issue is not whether nationals or foreigners control the media , but whether the interests of those who do control the media , nationals or foreigners , are those of the capitalist global system . |
| 10 | The point at issue is not whether a corporation and its practices are foreign , but to what extent they are transnational . |
| 11 | The question at issue is not whether macro mutations take place , but whether they form the basis of evolutionary novelties erm and that 's an empirical question which is not easy to answer . |
| 12 | The issue was not whether Ho was a communist but whether there was , in principle , any possibility of voluntary , autonomous communism . |
| 13 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |