Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] whether a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Revenue 's criterion for determining whether a trustee is a " professional trustee " for this purpose is whether he is carrying out his functions as trustee in the course of his business ( being a business which , as a matter of fact , includes the management of trusts ) rather than as a private individual . |
| 2 | The information contained on Form BD8 was previously the main criterion for deciding whether a pupil required education in a special school or an ordinary school , and whether the pupil should be referred to and educated as a blind or a partially sighted child . |
| 3 | What makes the issue of the legitimacy of our constitutional arrangements so problematic is the general open ended-ness of those arrangements ; that is , the difficulty of knowing whether a practice or non-practice is or is not constitutional . |
| 4 | First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc . |
| 5 | It is the reasonable foreseeability of harm arising from one 's conduct which in many types of cases not only gives rise to the duty of care to avoid inflicting such harm , but also provides the test for determining whether a person injured by the careless conduct of another falls within the class of persons to whom a duty of care is owed . |
| 6 | It is also helpful to bear in mind that the following factors tend to be of little or no relevance in determining whether a business is transferred as a going concern . |
| 7 | A turning-point came in the case of Ridge v. Baldwin in which it was held that the distinction between administrative and judicial functions was of no relevance to deciding whether a decision-maker ought to comply with the rules of natural justice or to the availability of judicial review remedies . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not . |
| 9 | ‘ Precatory ’ neither ( as in English law ) implied caution about the clarity of intention , nor was used as the touchstone for deciding whether a disposition was a trust . |
| 10 | Trollope reaches the point of wondering whether a plumber could go to heaven , before sweet reason intervenes : ‘ we do not see why he should be debarred if cabinet ministers be allowed to enter . ’ |
| 11 | Secondly , the council may balk at the costs of determining whether a treatment is scientifically valid . |
| 12 | The problems of deciding whether a pupil has mastered a concept or skill are discussed in relation to an experiment in giving pupils the same tests in different modes but similar in content and difficulty on two separate occasions . |
| 13 | Another illustration of the importance for procedural rights of determining whether a dispute exists , and of identifying the parties to it , is Namibia . |
| 14 | For example , we will look later at stress , which is a major factor in determining whether a syllable will be strong or weak . |
| 15 | Confidence was a major factor in deciding whether a job was attempted and how well the job was carried out . |
| 16 | Courts are likely to be faced with more complex parliamentary history and consequently more difficulty in determining whether a statement may be assumed to demonstrate parliamentary intention . |
| 17 | Obviously the potential for entry via imports needs to be considered carefully by domestic competition authorities in assessing whether a firm is dominant and whether it is abusing its monopoly position . |
| 18 | Redundant churches are safeguarded by the Pastoral Measure 1983 which provides procedures for deciding whether a church is still required for worship , and , if not , what the future of the building should be . |
| 19 | Accordingly , the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a government exists as the government of a state are : ( a ) whether it is the constitutional government of the state ; ( b ) the degree , nature and stability of administrative control , if any , that it of itself exercises over the territory of the state ; ( c ) whether Her Majesty 's Government has any dealings with it and if so what is the nature of those dealings ; and ( d ) in marginal cases , the extent of international recognition that it has as the government of the state . |
| 20 | Similarly , where a clause in a written agreement states that exclusive possession is not granted to the occupier , the clause will not be taken into account in deciding whether a licence or a tenancy is created ( Family Housing Association v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 779 ) . |
| 21 | As Street on Torts puts it , the basis of this authority and the defence it affords to torts such as false imprisonment ‘ is the need to maintain order in the particular organisation responsible for the training of the child ’ ; parental wishes would merely be factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a punishment was reasonable . |
| 22 | A set of statutory guidelines , similar to those proposed in Australia , indicating factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a director has met the relevant standard might also have educative value and be useful in stimulating the development of a more detailed body of jurisprudence . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 24 | It refused to rule out the inclusion of other factors for determining whether a borrower was likely to default or not — like disability or homosexuality . |
| 25 | Dick Fletcher who runs New Media , one of Europe 's leading CD-I development companies , has for long suggested a simple rule of thumb for deciding whether a device is a computer or an appliance . |
| 26 | But is there not a contradiction between being so fiercely hostile to relativism in history and aesthetics and at the same time asserting that there are no objective criteria for deciding whether a work is good or bad ? |
| 27 | As for communication , there is no way of knowing whether a cab radio would have made any difference in this accident , but I agree with my hon. Friend that it is desirable that cab radios should be fitted into locomotives and multiple unit fleets . |
| 28 | One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs . |
| 29 | We have also seen that there is no mechanical way of deciding whether a function is a public one or not . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |