Example sentences of "[prep] issue was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the points in issue was the question whether , if the appeal was validly brought , the court had jurisdiction to make an order for costs . |
| 2 | At issue was the right of the state to sell forest land to British planters . |
| 3 | While that struggle tended to centre on financial matters — the government 's commitment to effect reductions in public expenditure in opposition to local authority commitment to the enhancement of public services — what was at issue was the power of local authorities in relation to the power of central government . |
| 4 | The point nominally at issue was the one which had spasmodically rent the Conservative Party for the past three decades — the tariff question . |
| 5 | part of what was at issue was the nature of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ explanation ’ themselves . |
| 6 | What was at issue was the future of cities themselves . |
| 7 | The most important point at issue was the tactic of infiltration which had led to several splits in the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the dominant group in Trotsky 's Fourth International . |