Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] whether " in BNC.

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1 The fact that a person is suffering from a mental disorder within the Mental Health Act 1983 does not preclude a legally effective consent ( ss. 57 and 58 ) The question in each case is whether the person was capable of understanding .
2 The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ?
3 Therefore , the narrow issue in this case is whether , as Mr. Page contends and the courts below have held , certiorari lies against the visitor to quash his decision as being erroneous in point of law notwithstanding that the question of law arises under the domestic law of the university which the visitor has ‘ exclusive ’ jurisdiction to decide .
4 The issue in this case was whether or not listed building consent should have been obtained before the neoclassical statue was removed from the Temple of Graces , a listed building specifically designed to house it
5 One of the issues in this case was whether so-called ‘ prerogative powers ’ of the Crown ( which is another name for central government ) are subject to judicial review .
6 We can leave the Housing Act 1988 and proceed to the Rent Act 1977 , bearing in mind that the issue in this case was whether there was a person , namely , the landlord , who was restricted in his right to recover possession of the premises by virtue of an enactment or rule of law .
7 The real test of this budget is whether economic growth has been achieved .
8 An interesting question arising from this study is whether English continues to be regarded as a subject with a mission in higher education ; and whether the view of academics differs from that of students .
9 An important question that could not be addressed in this study is whether a single dose of IPV would also reduce the risk of infection with wild poliovirus and subsequent spread to susceptible contacts .
10 A further uncertainty is whether a legislative text remains ambiguous or obscure for the purposes of the relaxed exclusionary rule once it has been judicially interpreted or construed .
11 One of the questions most central to this research was whether drivers can generally report fluctuating levels of subjective risk .
12 The main focus of this chapter is whether these policies are sufficient , or whether it is necessary for the state to have direct control of certain industries through public ownership .
13 Another issue is whether a refurbished general code of offences against the person , including clearly graded offences and ‘ threats ’ offences , would not cater adequately for these occasions .
14 Another issue is whether brother — sister incest should remain criminal where both parties are aged 18 or over : when sentencing , the courts treat this as a much less serious form of the offence than father — daughter incest , and a majority of the CLRC accepted that brother — sister incest should cease to be an offence when both parties are aged 21 or over .
15 A more reliable test is whether a fruit comes away from the plant without much persuasion .
16 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 .
17 Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ .
18 An interesting question is whether the boots would have withstood another day of similar conditions .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The more interesting question is whether Keynes 's greater influence was over Britain 's international financial policy through his dominant role in the negotiations which led to the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 and to the American loan of 1945 .
22 The only interesting question is whether or not Marxism can actually explain these phenomena .
23 The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends .
24 An interesting question is whether any particular crash is due to the hardware or the software that you are using .
25 The further question is whether the absence of any statement in the notice requiring compensation in money in respect of the breach is fatal to the validity of the notice … the statute requires notice to be given specifying the breach complained of , as the first thing , and , if the breach is capable of remedy , requiring the lessee to remedy it , and " in any case requiring the lessee to make compensation in money for the breach . "
26 A further question is whether or not a less costly form of regulation could be devised that still allows the same degree of competition in the markets with the same level of investor protection .
27 A dilemma for British reformers is whether to list or illustrate the types of impairment envisaged .
28 Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres .
29 Another question is whether women do , in fact , have real equality with men in access to public positions , and how significant this is for gender inequality .
30 Another question is whether Parliament should give its approval first before a public inquiry is held or whether Parliament should have a say after the inquiry .
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