Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to whether national governments are still ultimately in charge , the only matter left to be resolved is whether they retain the means to call a halt to the whole process by which law-making is rapidly ceasing to be their responsibility . |
| 2 | A final point which ought to be considered is whether the doctor may be liable under section 2 in the case that the patient expressing the wish to die is mentally unfit . |
| 3 | A good application form can be helpful but what has to be considered is whether it stops the candidate from expressing him/herself . |
| 4 | What has to be considered is whether this is really in everyone 's interest . |
| 5 | Another issue which needs to be considered is whether or not new policy tools can be found to enable the authorities to achieve their objectives more effectively , and to this we will turn next . |
| 6 | The question to be considered is whether and to what extent laying down such requirements for the registration of fishing vessels is compatible with Community law and in particular with articles 7 , 52 and 221 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | The first matter which logically falls to be considered is whether or not Nolan J. was correct in the view , which was accepted by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 8 | What needs to be considered is whether these groups are better or worse off as a result of ten years of Conservative rule . |
| 9 | A final question which falls to be considered is whether they also apply to national legislation adopted prior to the directive . |
| 10 | A further component of passive rifting that needs to be considered is whether a rifting event is accompanied by abundant volcanism . |
| 11 | Among the most controversial options being considered is whether to form a union with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 12 | The second question about the WGMS that must be addressed is whether it is technically sound . |
| 13 | Among the foremost issued to be addressed is whether the current division of responsibility between the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , each with other responsibilities , including in MAFF 's case , responsibility for producers , is the most appropriate way of devising and implementing a national food policy . |
| 14 | What remains to be seen is whether this particular expertise is sufficient to enable the authority to become ‘ authoritative ’ in the world of strong professional and political interests . |
| 15 | The D R one A is currently an excellent er tactical reconnaissance aircraft , all weather , at night etcetera and er it will go on well into the next century so there 's no great hurry to make a decision er one of the first points has got ta be decided is whether we carry the reconnaissance equipment in a pod under the aircraft replacing some of the other weapons or whether we try to build it in and er but taking first things first we have to get the requirement sorted out . |
| 16 | All that remains to be decided is whether the Oxfordshire Way runs round the front of the club house , or through the car park at the back . |
| 17 | In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period . |
| 18 | The question now to be answered is whether endogenous hormones similarly regulate patterns of growth and the formation of haustoria in the intact dodder and if so , how the stimulus of contact with the host is coupled to the action of hormone . |
| 19 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 20 | This implies that the problem of the selection of the risky securities to include in the investor 's portfolio has been solved and the only question to be answered is whether to lend or borrow , and how much to lend or borrow . |
| 21 | One of the questions which must be answered is whether these do indeed show the predominant influence of Jamaican Creole or whether they are better described in terms of some other variety . |
| 22 | The decision that needs to be made is whether children should continue their education in Britain or accompany their parents overseas . |
| 23 | But if a person is injured , then the ultimate inquiry to be made is whether or not the injury was a reasonable and probable consequence of the act of carelessness , and whether or not the defaulter should have reasonably anticipated that a class of persons , of which the plaintiff was one , might be affected by his careless act . |
| 24 | The first decision to be made is whether to add and extend paths strictly from left-to-right through the utterance ; or whether to allow a middle-out strategy that extends hypotheses both to the left and to the right of some island of comparative certainty ; or whether to implement a combination of these . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The question that then needed to be answered was whether the dd fusion was being induced by collisions within the hot plasma — ‘ thermonuclear ’ fusion — or from some other non-thermonuclear processes such as collisions between deuterons that had been accelerated to high energies during the initial pulse of current and other deuterons of comparatively low energies . |
| 27 | Other issues on which morals can be drawn are whether dreams are forewarnings of events to come , and the image of woman as man 's confusion : the latter point , though , the Nun 's Priest himself refuses to present seriously : The burlesque treatment of matters of moral seriousness in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reaches its climax in the middle of the tale , with a reference to one of the crucial dilemmas or mysteries for Christian philosophers : that of reconciling human free will with the necessary truth of God 's Providence . |
| 28 | The question often raised is whether this education system is relevant to Zimbabwe 's needs . |
| 29 | The question now raised is whether , to protect the weapons programme , the scale of the accident at Windscale was covered up . |
| 30 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |