Example sentences of "was whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD JUSTICE BALCOMBE said that the point of substance in the case was whether the mother 's consent was unreasonably withheld . |
| 2 | Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone , LC , said that the question was whether a parental veto came within the band of possible reasonable decisions and not whether it was right or mistaken and that there was a band of decisions within which the court should seek to replace the individual 's judgment with his own . |
| 3 | But then Timman attacked and by move 40 , the question was whether Speelman could survive . |
| 4 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 6 | The only question was whether they would indeed be executed . |
| 7 | The question now was whether she was going too far , straining the responses of an ancient nation beyond what was acceptable or practicable . |
| 8 | One of the most difficult decisions he was faced with in recent years was whether or not to sell the foods business , particularly as it involved disposing of Cadbury 's Cocoa , the product with which his great-grandfather launched the company . |
| 9 | The most important factor was whether all the crops were housed in the barn or whether some or all were kept in ricks in the fields , being moved to the barn for threshing . |
| 10 | Also unclear was whether the commandos had , at one point , opened fire on the invaders , as claimed by the FMLN . |
| 11 | The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 12 | The second question was whether the licensing authority , which licenses medicinal products , owes a duty of care to individuals . |
| 13 | What had to be decided was whether 2.63 miles of the extended six-lane M3 would be tunnelled through the downland chalk or just cut straight through in a deep , wide trench which would obviously make an irreparable mess of the down . |
| 14 | The most difficult strategic question was whether sea power was any longer the foundation upon which the Three Pillars could continue to stand . |
| 15 | The question during Mr Baker 's recent tour was whether Israel 's Yitzhak Shamir or Syria 's Hafez Assad would run out of excuses first . |
| 16 | What was not clear in this case , though , was whether he would attempt to stay there while Lamb got the twenty-three needed to avoid the follow-on . |
| 17 | The choice for us was whether to take a strike unprepared or to live to fight another day . |
| 18 | The question now was whether a military task force should set sail . |
| 19 | The issue now was whether it should attempt to retake South Georgia . |
| 20 | The question was whether their skill and dedication was matched by organization and management . |
| 21 | It was no longer just a question whether reason and science could tolerate divine intervention in the apparently stable and unalterable laws of the universe ; the new and more insidious question was whether the universe had required a creator in the first place . |
| 22 | Following the end of the First World War , the leading question in the mining industry was whether or not the state would return the coal mines to their pre-war owners . |
| 23 | In the case of Finney ( 1974 ) , where an attendant at a mental hospital caused the death of a patient by releasing a flow of boiling water into a bath , the test was whether he was grossly negligent . |
| 24 | But as Poovey points out , men on both sides of the dispute were agreed as to the basic nature of women : the question was whether chloroform should be allowed to tamper with it . |
| 25 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 26 | In the Fifties the question was whether you could claim protection under the Fifth Amendment , which grants the right not to incriminate oneself . |
| 27 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 28 | The question was whether , when a pagan government forbade Christian meetings for worship and required the surrender of Bibles and vessels and vestments , any kind of compromise was morally possible . |
| 29 | There , a major problem was whether the trait contributed to the fitness of the individual or of the population as a whole . |
| 30 | One was whether the respondent was a staff member or a relative . |