Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [be] whether [art] " in BNC.

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1 The factor that decides whether a product can be prescribed is whether the product appears on the blacklist rather than whether it has a product licence .
2 A further component of passive rifting that needs to be considered is whether a rifting event is accompanied by abundant volcanism .
3 A final point which ought to be considered is whether the doctor may be liable under section 2 in the case that the patient expressing the wish to die is mentally unfit .
4 Among the foremost issued to be addressed is whether the current division of responsibility between the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , each with other responsibilities , including in MAFF 's case , responsibility for producers , is the most appropriate way of devising and implementing a national food policy .
5 All that remains to be decided is whether the Oxfordshire Way runs round the front of the club house , or through the car park at the back .
6 The question that then needed to be answered was whether the dd fusion was being induced by collisions within the hot plasma — ‘ thermonuclear ’ fusion — or from some other non-thermonuclear processes such as collisions between deuterons that had been accelerated to high energies during the initial pulse of current and other deuterons of comparatively low energies .
7 In contract or tort , for example , the first question to be asked is whether the plaintiff has suffered some legally recognized wrong at the hands of the defendant .
8 A first question to be asked is whether the difficulty of the questions was the same for the parallel tests within the limits of precision for tests of this length and with the size of the sample of pupils .
9 Perhaps the more specific question to be asked is whether the charges of possession with intent were brought solely for the purpose of retaining the applicants in custody .
10 Depending upon the existing context surrounding the relationship between the debtor and the surety , the question to be asked is whether the conduct of the creditor has fallen short in any respect which would amount to unconscionable disregard for the predictable vulnerability of the surety to the misfeasance or influence of the debtor .
11 The first decision to be faced is whether the institution needs to be able to make its own recordings .
12 The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK .
13 A key assumption , therefore , which remains to be tested is whether a GIS user interface should condition GIS use .
14 What needs to be established is whether the rhetoric is being used in an argument which is taking place within the conspiracy tradition between rival theorists , or whether , the tactical differences have arisen because one faction is firmly arguing against the conspiracy tradition .
15 Almost regardless of the use to which the software will be put the very first question that needs to be established is whether the program will accept data from the software you currently use .
16 In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period .
17 The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians .
18 One question which was raised was whether the term illegal entrant could cover a person who had obtained leave to enter by deception or fraud , as well as a person who had entered by clandestine means .
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