Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The real measure should be whether selection is significant against normal levels of background variation . |
| 3 | It should be whether or not it is addressing the defined needs of a group of people . |
| 4 | In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action . |
| 5 | Our first decision should be whether we want to write a traditional strophic song ( each verse identical in length and metre ) , or music which is not chained to such a rigid form . |
| 6 | " If a simple test … is desired for ascertaining into which category a covenant falls , it is suggested that the proper inquiry should be whether the covenant affects either the landlord qua landlord or the tenant qua tenant . |
| 7 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |
| 8 | But the main concern must be whether the selection process itself is effective . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the crucial test must be whether further research along similar lines duplicates these findings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The limit of the inquiry must be whether the magistrates have jurisdiction , supposing the facts alleged in the information to be true . |
| 13 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 14 | This indicates that if the court 's desire is to protect the public from persons who take vehicles without the owner 's consent , that is by a sense of general deterrence , then this particular criterion of the Criminal Justice Act will not be applicable The question posed for the courts must be whether taking a vehicle without consent can ever , as an individual offence , be so serious that a non-custodial sentence can not be considered . |
| 15 | He also predicted that a major area of concern for the future might be whether the farmhouse attracted 100 per cent property relief . |
| 16 | Sometimes , this may be whether to save the life of the child or the mother . |
| 17 | The question for a court or tribunal would be whether your employer 's conduct forced you to resign . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | The question we would ask would be whether there was any difference in the electrical activity of the neurons in the IMHV as a result of training on the methylanthranilate bead . |
| 22 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 23 | The key factor would be whether the presence of the trespasser should have been anticipated by Charles . |
| 24 | The only feature that one could not predict would be whether the pendulum was orbiting clockwise or anticlockwise . |
| 25 | Eggar said a key question for the review of the industry that the government plans to launch later this year would be whether new nuclear power stations could be commercially viable . |
| 26 | He suggested a better test would be whether the material would be judged as grossly offensive to an ordinary citizen . |
| 27 | A question for the nineties will be whether credit markets are any different . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Because most attempted suicide patients have symptoms of depression , the most common decision concerning drug therapy will be whether to prescribe an antidepressant . |