Example sentences of "issue [is] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungary the issue is whether stable governments can be formed from the wide band of parties produced by a complex electoral system . |
| 2 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The issue is whether this animal can be identified as the ‘ monster ’ . |
| 6 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 7 | It may appear that this information is already known but the point at issue is whether the supervisor knows and whether reality matches assumptions . |
| 8 | An apparently fundamental issue is whether the scheme is voluntary or ‘ mandatory ’ ( or compulsory — the terms are numerous ) . |
| 9 | In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state . |
| 10 | Whether the issue is whether to buy a motor motor bike , what college or university to apply for , or what job to look for , a calm discussion of all the factors involved is far more fruitful than teenage demand met by flat parental refusal , with no real thinking on either side . |
| 11 | What is at issue is whether young children begin by addressing the problem in this way or whether they approach grammatical competence via a circuitous route which begins with pre-verbal social interaction . |
| 12 | The second related issue is whether it is appropriate to set down a single structure which puts topics under specific headings , given the interdisciplinary nature of the subject . |
| 13 | In a similar vein Gibson ( this volume ) argues , ‘ The most basic issue is whether we are to define aggression without reference to native concepts . |
| 14 | The most basic issue is whether we are to define aggression without reference to native concepts . |
| 15 | The fundamental issue is whether this essentially Romantic vision of history , of religion , and of the nature of theological truth and the reality of God , is an adequate vehicle for the reformulation of Christian faith . |
| 16 | The point at issue is whether such affective , and essentially subjective , aspects of educational and personal development can or should be subjected to formal recognition in the certification process . |
| 17 | One issue is whether East Germany 's more liberal rules on abortion are to prevail or West Germany 's more restrictive ones . |
| 18 | The gossips say the issue is whether OSF , under pressure to become self-sustaining , should continue to spend its resources on further development or focus its energies on its more innovative software DCE , DME and Motif . |
| 19 | At issue is whether these apparent climate shifts are driven by internal or external forces . |
| 20 | In the third , medical advisers have developed a management role in the family health services authority , addressed wider health strategy , and planned practice development ; pharmaceutical advisers have led in all aspects of prescribing , involving the medical adviser only when the issue is whether to prescribe rather than what to prescribe . |
| 21 | It is important to note , however , that there is nothing inherently wrong with a conflict of interest situation in itself ; the issue is whether such a situation is handled properly . |
| 22 | The issue is whether or not there should be a strong framework and organizational commitment to instruments of public policy or whether or not there is a belief that such interventions are illegitimate and best left to the mysterious movements of market forces . |
| 23 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 24 | The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority . |
| 25 | In the present case the only issue is whether there is something in the language of the Act or by necessary implication , to show that the policy embodied in the Act should not be given effect as regards the questioning of a suspect who has been charged . |
| 26 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 27 | The issue is whether the Code applied to this situation at all . |
| 28 | The issue is whether decisions in the best interests of the child shall be taken by one court rather than another . |
| 29 | The issue is whether the bank can be in any better position than Mr. Aboody if , when Mr. Aboody was acting on its behalf , Mr. Aboody exerted … undue influence . |
| 30 | The issue is whether the bank can be in any better position than Mr. Aboody if , when Mr. Aboody was acting on its behalf , Mr. Aboody exerted ( or , if this had been a class 2 case , was presumed to have exerted ) undue influence . |