Example sentences of "test [be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more reliable test is whether a fruit comes away from the plant without much persuasion . |
| 2 | A simple test is whether you can hear the very high pitched whistle a television makes when it is switched off . |
| 3 | ‘ The acid test is whether the Bundesbank is prepared to cut interest rates to help the French , ’ said a London dealer . |
| 4 | An even better test is whether , after two years , the successful candidate is promoted again or given a larger international role . |
| 5 | One test is whether a material has an economic value . |
| 6 | The test is whether there is a ‘ real feeling of reprobation ’ amongst members of society with regard to the conduct in question . |
| 7 | Oman ( 1984 , 1989 ) suggests that the crucial test is whether the arrangement involves some element of risk to the seller — and some prospect of a share in future income . |
| 8 | The test is whether a hypothetical by-stander of the requisite firmness would suffer such fear . |
| 9 | The test is whether the cost would have been incurred but for the provision of the benefit . |
| 10 | The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection . |
| 11 | Like any other scientific theory , it may initially be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons , but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observation . |
| 12 | Secondly , under the 1973 Act the test was whether it was fair and reasonable to allow reliance upon the exemption clause , whereas under the 1977 Act the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract . |
| 13 | The test is whether the plaintiff has acquired an intangible property right for his product deriving from the distinctive nature of this material which is recognized by the market . |
| 14 | This basic test is whether the damage would not have occurred but for the breach of duty . |
| 15 | In the application of COB Rules under the foreign business carve-out as such ( see page 40 above ) , the relevant test is whether the customer is physically in the UK . |
| 16 | The test is whether the unwitting distributor ought to have known that the material would offend . |
| 17 | The test is whether the public interest in disclosure outweighs the public interest in the preservation of confidence . |
| 18 | In relation to a contractual exclusion clause , the test is whether the clause was " a fair and reasonable one to be included " in the contract " having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made " ( UCTA 1977 , s11(1) . |
| 19 | It must be emphasised that the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract in question ( see Josef Marton v Southwestern General Property ( 1982 ) , unreported ) . |
| 20 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 21 | It may be , following the Directive ( art 7(e) ) , that the test is whether the knowledge existed to discover the defect and not merely that the standard tests and procedures were undertaken by the drug company concerned . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 24 | The crucial test was whether , under s 57(3) of the EP(C)A 1978 , the employer had acted reasonably or unreasonably in treating the reason for dismissal as sufficient reason for dismissing the employees . |
| 25 | Sennett was the initial genius who taught the others that anything ought to be tried that produced laughter and that the ultimate test was whether any movie actually worked for audiences . |
| 26 | The test was whether the prosecution could show that the tipper received some form of direct or indirect personal benefit from the outlawed conduct . |
| 27 | Lord Wilberforce , while agreeing in the result , said that the test was whether the act done , pursuant to the general intention , was reasonably capable of achieving its objective . |
| 28 | Secondly , under the 1973 Act the test was whether it was fair and reasonable to allow reliance upon the exemption clause , whereas under the 1977 Act the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract . |