Example sentences of "the [adj] question [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre . |
| 2 | While it is apparent that members of an organisation will always be affected by a treaty concluded by the organisation in the sense that they can not act contrary to it , the controversial question was whether they could be formally bound by it . |
| 3 | The proper question was whether there was a breach of the Code — in other words , was a caution necessary ? |
| 4 | The interesting question is whether the reform to regulations regarding fee structures in 1982 and , to a lesser extent , the greater freedom architects enjoyed from about this time to practice in a less restrictive manner have influenced the pattern of events . |
| 5 | In the light of these facts , the interesting question is whether there exists any relationship between the two triads — on the one hand the abolition of private property , religion and the family and on the other economic inefficiency , religious persecution and political terror . |
| 6 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 7 | The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends . |
| 8 | Given , however , that the jurisdiction exists as a matter of settled law , the remaining question is whether , and if so on what grounds , it can be invoked to authorise the treatment which W. is unwilling to undergo . |
| 9 | The remaining question was whether s16 of the act applied to the contract . |
| 10 | The central question is whether animals possess important characteristics that are not adaptive , and which therefore , by definition , would not have been shaped by natural and sexual selection . |
| 11 | Of course , the intriguing question is whether our abstract schemes for programs and/or documents are true pointers to some powerful universal truth , or whether the sense of elegance and economy in a good approach is just a delusion . |
| 12 | The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general . |
| 13 | The crucial question is whether it manages to liberate at least as much energy from fusions as was expended in running a particle accelerator to produce that muon in the first place . |
| 14 | While the Arts Council may survive as an advisory body , the crucial question is whether it retains a funding role : ‘ The days of the arm 's length principle are gone . |
| 15 | So the crucial question is whether , if the basic valuation is produced by an employee of a building society , any failure to exercise due care and skill can constitute maladministration . |
| 16 | The crucial question is whether it is appropriate for your Lordships to do so . |
| 17 | But for most states and governments the crucial question was whether Britain would become a committed member of any European organisation . |
| 18 | This is a far more realistic maximum for cases involving forced oral sex and other indignities , but the real question is whether such serious forms of sexual assault should be classified differently . |
| 19 | The real question is whether , under the circumstances , it would be wrong to continue intervention . |
| 20 | The real question is whether any bits of the former Soviet Union 's industry are worth having ? |
| 21 | The real question is whether the changes — which affect the psychiatric provision of half the districts in the region — should be properly planned ; or whether the RHA is prepared , as an impassive bystander , merely to observe them . |
| 22 | ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |
| 23 | ‘ Again , the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit since this judgment was delivered , that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |
| 24 | The real question is whether the employee has any power over customers . |
| 25 | The real question was whether they provided material for assisting challenges to the decision before the court , by way of evidence of what the expert had done and why he had done it . |
| 26 | In considering how far this might constitute an explanation of the observed facts , though , the obvious question is whether folklinguistic beliefs relate directly to behaviour . |
| 27 | The obvious question is whether the Dialtext system offers correspondingly less than the other products and , based on what has been seen , the answer must be no . |
| 28 | The basic question is whether the reports , research results , anecdotal evidence and folklore refer to some form of known energy which can be easily integrated into the fund of established knowledge , or whether they indicate some other , more mysterious , perhaps more fundamental , energy , which operates in an altogether different way . |
| 29 | Legally there are a number of ways in which the court could approach this , but the basic question is whether the court wishes to compensate the estate and dependants of a suicide . |
| 30 | The prime question is whether the gains in efficiency from having a more competitive financial system that involves a degree of consumer protection are outweighed by the costs of setting up and maintaining that regulatory system . |