Example sentences of "question of [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms .
2 The case law on judicial review provides little in the way of guidance on the question of whether a certain issue is one of law or fact .
3 Even if inflation can be contained , there remains the question of whether a lower rate of economic growth in the Western world can be sustained in view of the demands which it makes on the limited resources of our planet , especially food and minerals .
4 It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors .
5 ( 2 ) The question of whether a medical report obtained pursuant to section 3(6A) should be disclosed to the Crown was essentially one within the discretion of the trial judge when he has seen the report , or exceptionally , within the discretion of such other judge who has had to conduct any pre-trial review .
6 This emphasis on long time-spans raises the question of whether a national space programme constitutes an example of policy or planning or both .
7 The question of whether a national conference should be held was reportedly also under discussion .
8 There is also the question of whether a national ship levy , the leding , goes back to the Viking period .
9 This touched on several important aesthetic issues , including the question of whether a musical sound can ever legitimately be ugly in itself .
10 Essentially the project will assess the question of whether a competitive advantage can be sustained through planned technological change .
11 Then there 's the question of whether an extra club comes up from the Vauxhall Conference to replace Aldershot and the possibility of clubs moving to new grounds . ’
12 In Sadler v Imperial Life Assurance Co of Canada Ltd [ 1988 ] IRLR 388 the question of whether an indirect restraint of trade existed was considered .
13 But behind such flurries in the economists ' dovecote lies the question of whether the new economics stands the test of evidence .
14 Third , both these principles are subject to the question of whether the new condition may be cured or palliated .
15 The dual source of private key legitimacy raises the question of whether the private key , by itself , is conclusive evidence of the carrier 's receipt of the goods in the condition notified to the transferee .
16 At first sight , Penrose 's result applied only to stars ; it did n't have anything to say about the question of whether the entire universe had a big bang singularity in its past .
17 Indeed , it seems that the merest touching of another may constitute a battery , and this prompts the question of whether the criminal law ought to extend to such trivial incidents .
18 The question of whether the compulsory audit for small companies should be retained is one on which the views of practitioners dealing with small companies particularly deserved to be heard .
19 It is generally recognised that casual working is still important in certain industrial/occupational labour markets , particularly that of the hotels and catering industry , although the question of whether the casual status of their jobs is a source of disadvantage to the people who work in this fashion is one which has , as yet , scarcely been answered .
20 At the centre of the discussion is the question of whether the Chinese Wall is an appropriate , valid , and effective regulatory mechanism for neutralizing the increased potential for conflict abuse in conglomerates and one in which these corporate entities may generally place reliance upon .
21 The question of whether the proposed disposal is in the best interests of the client and when the business should best be sold should be addressed at an early stage .
22 Debate focused on the question of whether the Meiji Restoration was a bourgeois revolution , albeit with remnants of feudalism persisting , in which case activists should work for a proletarian revolution ; or whether it was an incomplete bourgeois revolution , necessitating a two-stage revolution in the future .
23 The two styles are — or should be — a conscious response to the question of whether the brief monitoring of many or even all the children in a class is more effective in promoting learning than more sustained interactions with a smaller proportion .
24 However , apart from the question of whether the British economy will be in this condition in the future , the experience of the last attempt , in the 1940s and 1950s , to keep older workers in the labour force is not very encouraging ( Hannah , 1986 ) .
25 This raises the question of whether the high incidence of incompatible blood group antigen expression in PSC may be a marker for developing dysplasia and malignancy in the biliary tract , bearing in mind the well established association between PSC and cholangiocarcinoma .
26 Now , rather late in the day , we have come to the question of whether the resulting quality of life is really better .
27 On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " .
28 I wonder whether the same delusions of accuracy exist with things like the Volhard titration and its questions of whether the sliding endpoint is best avoided by filtering off the silver or adding nitrobenzene .
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