Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [is] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The remaining disagreement is whether zidovudine monotherapy should begin early to take advantage of this short-lived benefit or whether one should wait until symptoms develop . |
| 8 | The central issue is whether or not a Third World bourgeoisie can become hegemonic in its own realm and drive towards ‘ real ’ development ( as Becker asserts for Peru 's ‘ New Bourgeoisie ’ ) or whether the only realistic option for Third World bourgeoisies , under the present system of global capitalist hegemony , is to throw their lot in with the TNCs , as Evans argues for the triple alliance in Brazil . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 12 | Oman ( 1984 , 1989 ) suggests that the crucial test is whether the arrangement involves some element of risk to the seller — and some prospect of a share in future income . |
| 13 | The crucial issue is whether this merely represents a transfer in wealth from the acquirer , or whether there is an increase in wealth overall . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The crucial question is whether it is appropriate for your Lordships to do so . |
| 19 | The real issue is whether or not our results have some general message . |
| 20 | Passing sentence , the judge told Lashley : ‘ You are an appalling and dangerous man , and the real issue is whether the authorities can allow you your liberty in your lifetime ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The real question is whether , under the circumstances , it would be wrong to continue intervention . |
| 23 | The real question is whether any bits of the former Soviet Union 's industry are worth having ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | The real question is whether the employee has any power over customers . |
| 28 | The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection . |
| 29 | Like any other scientific theory , it may initially be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons , but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observation . |
| 30 | 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 . |