Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only concern for the Panel was whether the children had to be in compulsory care . |
| 2 | The question for the Government is whether the British financial markets , with their notoriously short-term horizons , are capable of handling long-term projects of this magnitude . |
| 3 | A general issue concerning the mental element for the offence is whether the defendant must intend that his conduct should be threatening , abusive or insulting , or be aware that it might be . |
| 4 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 5 | The ultimate question for the court is whether the absence of the covenant changes the contract in character from the original . |
| 6 | The question for the court was whether on July 9 , 1921 , the police authorities acting , reasonably and in good faith , considered a police garrison at the colliery necessary for the protection of life and property from violence , or , in other words , whether the decision of the chief constable in refusing special protection unless paid for was such a decision as a man in his position and with his duties could reasonably take . |
| 7 | The question for the emperor is whether it is reasonable for him to claim the trust . |
| 8 | The question for the House was whether the swapping of the labels amounted to an appropriation . |
| 9 | One point which the SCA Polo Committee will discuss for the future is whether junior and youth players should be put under extra pressure in a penalty situation or whether games should be played to the first goal . |
| 10 | Clearly , one issue for the future is whether this is ‘ terminal decline ’ or a decline before a new burst of growth , but of a different kind , and probably with a different geography . |
| 11 | In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented . |
| 12 | The general concern expressed about the approach is whether the county courts are going to be able to cope with the significant extra workload . |
| 13 | But the whole point of the question is whether Grant 's case applies to a misdirected letter of acceptance . |
| 14 | But the crux of the issue is whether it would be good for ministers to receive more partisan advice . |
| 15 | With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work . |
| 16 | The thrust of the debate is whether the education system or the social security system is the right source of student support . |
| 17 | The crux of the debate was whether this was the most cost-effective way of meeting the demand for heating in Britain , 7 and the Boards were under considerable pressure from the Government to justify their commercial policy , which seemed to be attracting peak loads at uneconomic prices . |
| 18 | The question which lies at the heart of the appeal is whether money exacted as taxes from a citizen by the revenue ultra vires is recoverable by the citizen as of right ; if so , Woolwich will be entitled to interest on the sums repaid to it by the revenue , running from the dates when those sums were paid to the revenue by Woolwich . |
| 19 | ‘ The central issue raised on this aspect of the appeal is whether there is any evidence upon which the judge could find that the plaintiffs behaved in a manner in relation to the conduct of the son as to make them liable to suffer financial loss resulting from the equitable relief sought by the defendants . |
| 20 | In most situations , a particular sentence will form part of a larger discourse and , when this is so , another important factor affecting use of the passive is whether actor or acted-upon is the theme of a discourse ( i.e. what the discourse is about ) . |
| 21 | At the outset of my investigation one of my civil servants said to me : ‘ My test of the review is whether you do anything about the Death Grant . ’ |
| 22 | The central question in the study of the nucleus is whether the mass distribution and energetics are dominated by stars , or by a central black hole . |
| 23 | The crux of the matter is whether compensation should be paid to the investors : if Sir Anthony has thus decided , then the Government should duly oblige . |
| 24 | The Victorian obsession with comfort has some relation to this conviction , for the first and even the final — test of a home is whether it makes the visitor feel at ease . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 26 | Also , pragmatists draw the very different moral that the test of a theory is whether it organizes our beliefs into an elegant and suggestive web of belief . |
| 27 | The test of the usefulness of an idea is whether it contributes much or anything to meeting two dimensions of any problem : |
| 28 | A crucial element in determining the power of an opponent is whether you believe that the opponent has the will to use its forces . |
| 29 | In the Ogwo case , the decision is based solely upon the neighbour principle , the issue before the court being whether the injuries sustained by the plaintiff were foreseeable . |
| 30 | LORD JUSTICE BALCOMBE said that the point of substance in the case was whether the mother 's consent was unreasonably withheld . |