Example sentences of "[coord] it is [adj] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statue of St Anthony is missing from the church 's altar , and it is unclear whether the effigy of St Bonus is still there . |
| 2 | This seems to be an inferior method of identifying the question of the boundaries of permissible conduct , and it is arguable whether this requirement forms part of the criminal law . |
| 3 | The Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1976 is not designed for that purpose and it is dubious whether it could be used in that way . |
| 4 | ‘ As king , Charles would also be head of the Church of England and it is debatable whether the public would want that status to be held by a man with an estranged wife . |
| 5 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 6 | We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us . |
| 7 | The number of patients with hypertrophic gastropathy is small , however , and it is unknown whether the ratio is also helpful in the differentiation from other conditions with large gastric folds , such as linitis plastica and lymphosarcoma . |
| 8 | a user of the highway , in his personal security.d As one writer has put it , the rule provides a remedy for what is ‘ essentially a wrong arising from occupation of land ( and it is irrelevant whether the person suffering the injury occupies land or not ) . ’ |
| 9 | Finally , the Advocate-General 's view is that the Barber judgment applies to schemes whether or not they are contracted out and it is irrelevant whether a scheme is funded exclusively by the employer or also by compulsory or voluntary employees ' contributions . |
| 10 | Similarly Lord Scarman said that if the dispute were connected with one of the matters referred to in the statute ( for example , terms and conditions of employment ) then ‘ it is a trade dispute , and it is immaterial whether the dispute also relates to other matters or has an extraneous , e.g. political or personal , motive . |
| 11 | ‘ Rule I : Where there is an unconditional contract for the sale of specific goods , in a deliverable state , the property in the goods passes to the buyer when the contract is made , and it is immaterial whether the time of payment or the time of delivery or both be postponed . ’ |
| 12 | First , it is sufficient that he obtains possession with the seller 's consent and it is immaterial whether that consent is later withdrawn . |
| 13 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 14 | It is generally accepted that odours per se do not cause a risk of infection and it is doubtful whether nausea , sleeplessness , mental strain or depression , commonly suffered by people exposed to odours , would be regarded as evidence of prejudice to health , as they affect a person 's general well-being , rather than threaten a clinical disease . |
| 15 | Strict feudalism was a highly artificial way of making land produce knights , and it is doubtful whether it ever existed outside the imaginations of historians . |
| 16 | City have slumped to halfway after three defeats on the trot and it is doubtful whether the recovery will start at Maine Road today against a Villa side that Reid acknowledges is ‘ brilliantly balanced right through ’ . |
| 17 | In addition , in order for the price mechanism to be an effective way of allocating resources , the consumer ( ie the patient ) must possess good information and it is doubtful whether this is so in most cases . |
| 18 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 19 | The grievances which the commons presented were not just their own but were shared by some amongst the magnates , and it is doubtful whether the commons ' will could have prevailed without this support from amongst the ranks of the nobility . |
| 20 | Citizens in an earlier age got their voting cues from friends and relations , from newspapers and party workers and it is doubtful whether their decisions today are any less soundly based . |
| 21 | Although femininity in a man or masculinity in a woman may accompany homosexuality rather than heterosexuality ( and it is doubtful whether we can be sure on this point ) , the homosexual man or woman can occupy any point on the masculine-feminine scale , just as may the heterosexual individual . |
| 22 | If after the plaintiff has been harmed his damages are increased by his failure to have proper medical attention , this failure by him to mitigate his damage would have prevented him from recovering that portion of his loss which is attributable to his omission , and it is doubtful whether section 13(6) of the 1965 Act has a different effect . |
| 23 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 24 | Sociolinguists working in the variationist paradigm have concentrated on studying phonological variation , and it is doubtful whether variationist techniques can be applied to grammatical variation at all . |
| 25 | Neither abolition nor emancipation therefore produced a satisfactory capitalist solution of ‘ the agrarian problem ’ , and it is doubtful whether this could have been achieved unless the conditions for the development of a capitalist agriculture were already present , as in the areas on the margins of the slave/serf economy such as Texas or ( in Europe ) Bohemia and parts of Hungary . |
| 26 | A Bf110D night fighter of the newly arrived 1/NJG 3 was lost over the island on 17th but it is uncertain whether this fell to the A.A. guns or was shot down by Plt.Off . |
| 27 | He was certainly a loyal royal servant but it is uncertain whether he would have seen himself ( or others of his generation ) as the harbinger of a new government in the north . |
| 28 | This occupation was clearly contemporary with the fort , but it is uncertain whether it belongs to a vicus or a military depot . |
| 29 | Dwyer told The Scotsman that David Campese was most anxious to adjourn from the Italian leagues in order to play at Murrayfield , but it is uncertain whether he will be joined by Michael Lynagh , Tim Gavin and Willie Ofahengaue . |
| 30 | Mr Cristiani appears to have succeeded in isolating the FMLN , but it is unclear whether the agreement will have any impact on the guerrillas ' military activity . |