Example sentences of "[be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |
| 2 | As the Law Commission recommended in 1976 , the test should be whether the granting of relief to an applicant who has delayed would cause substantial prejudice or hardship to any person or would be detrimental to good administration . |
| 3 | A question for the nineties will be whether credit markets are any different . |
| 4 | Whenever I drove to a hospital my question would not be whether there was a demonstration but how big . |
| 5 | The issue will be whether the new government will have the courage to face the problems and introduce the harsh measures which will perhaps be required , at the price , it may be , of its own popularity . |
| 6 | Sometimes , this may be whether to save the life of the child or the mother . |
| 7 | But the main concern must be whether the selection process itself is effective . |
| 8 | If you are ultimately dismissed and present a claim to the industrial tribunal , the basic question will be whether , in all the circumstances , the employer could have been expected to wait any longer before taking positive action . |
| 9 | The main consideration ought to be whether the offence is one which makes the employee unsuitable for his or her type of work or unacceptable to colleagues . |
| 10 | The question for a court or tribunal would be whether your employer 's conduct forced you to resign . |
| 11 | Because most attempted suicide patients have symptoms of depression , the most common decision concerning drug therapy will be whether to prescribe an antidepressant . |
| 12 | In the event of Conservative defeat , one of the great questions never to be answered would be whether a decision to postpone full-scale implementation of the various forms of opting-out , in favour of local experiments , might have saved them . |
| 13 | The test of relevance will be whether awareness of a fact does act causally on spontaneous inclination . |
| 14 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 15 | The choice can only be whether animals benefit from our practices or are harmed by them . |
| 16 | The real measure should be whether selection is significant against normal levels of background variation . |
| 17 | The question in such cases will be whether the duty requires the authority to do what the plaintiff alleges it ought to do . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the crucial test must be whether further research along similar lines duplicates these findings . |
| 19 | ( Alternatively we could distinguish between two forms of justification , justification before the event and justification after it , and run the tripartite definition in terms of the former ; but then the question would be whether these really are two forms of the same thing . ) |
| 20 | So the one issue remaining on Woolwich 's writ of summons came to be whether or not Woolwich had grounds for claiming interest on the three payments which they had made from their respective dates up to 31 July 1987 . |
| 21 | The question would normally be whether their decision was unreasonable in the sense that no tribunal acquainted with the ordinary use of language could reasonably reach that decision . |
| 22 | If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 23 | And without such plea , none of the background to the case to which we have briefly alluded can ever be placed before the jury : the only issues arising would be whether or no the publication was defamatory and , if so , what should the damages be . |
| 24 | The question will be whether the other necessary elements are present , viz. was such appropriation dishonest and was it done with the intention of permanently depriving the company of such property ? |
| 25 | The question in each case must be whether the extraction of the property from the company was dishonest , not whether the alleged thief has consented to his own wrongdoing . |
| 26 | A crucial distinction turned out to be whether the stimuli were presented only to one side of fixation at a time or simultaneously to both sides . |
| 27 | The question for the court used to be whether the applicant had shown prima facie evidence , or a probability , that his legal rights were being infringed . |
| 28 | In chapter 9 , one of the issues which will be examined will be whether social policy measures can help to cope with unemployment or whether it is primarily an economic problem . |
| 29 | Thus the real question seems not to be whether we should detect the disease but how best we should treat it if it is detected . |
| 30 | It should be whether or not it is addressing the defined needs of a group of people . |