Example sentences of "[noun] be [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ultimate question which arises in this area of law is whether a commitment to subjectivism should override all other considerations regardless of circumstances or social cost . |
| 2 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 3 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 4 | Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany . |
| 5 | The first question is whether a disposition sub modo in favour of a public or religious purpose might be subject to special protection , and might therefore be enforced directly . |
| 6 | In English law ‘ precatory ’ is treated as contrasting with ‘ imperative ’ : a settlor is supposed to instruct a trustee to hold property under trust , and if his words are merely precatory , then the question is whether a trust has been set up . |
| 7 | A resolution of this issue , which is not a pressing matter , would need also to take account of the fact that speakers do , in practice , use sentences which could be taken as instances of a third possible equational type ( if this is not to be regarded as merely some kind of linguistic jeu d'esprit ) : ( 37 ) cautiously is the way we should proceed In both of these two cases , the question is whether a property concept can fill a position which would otherwise be reserved for an entity . |
| 8 | One test is whether a material has an economic value . |
| 9 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 10 | More recently , in a modern banking case certainty arose when the issue was whether a char-terer had paid the owner on time . |
| 11 | The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre . |
| 12 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 13 | So a central issue at the meeting was whether a man is more like a dog , a rat , a pig or some other animal in terms of the distribution of endothelin receptors . |
| 14 | The primary questions are whether a law has been broken , and whether an offender can be detected . |
| 15 | The key factor is whether a person exercised a sufficient degree of control . |
| 16 | In deciding whether to begin or continue litigation , one major factor is whether a party will have to pay the costs or be able to recover them from the other party . |
| 17 | A further major difference between many of the search firms is whether a consultant is really working under the umbrella of a big name in the executive search business or working truly as part of a team . |
| 18 | The other is if a system is organized so that the amount of activity in its neurons is more important than their spatial or temporal pattern . |
| 19 | A question that causes much debate is whether a report of an environmental audit 's finding should be made available to the general public . |
| 20 | The issue before the House of Lords was whether a court of summary jurisdiction , having once accepted a plea of guilty , had jurisdiction to allow the defendant to change his plea to not guilty . |
| 21 | The local authority , on the other hand , say that ‘ the care given to the child ’ in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) means the care given by the mother to the child in this case and that , in any event , it is not clear that the child would go to the grandmother 's if a care order was not made , because the mother is still claiming , or was still claiming , that the care should be given to her . |
| 22 | ‘ The question as stated at the beginning of his argument by Mr. MacDermot was whether a tenant against whom a final order for possession has been made is a tenant within section 12(1) ( g ) . |
| 23 | I propose that a useful point to be considered by the doctor is whether a treatment would be clinically indicated for a private patient with unlimited personal resources . |
| 24 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 25 | Nurse Harvey 's after a feed soothes away wind and tummy upsets and relieves pain during teething . |
| 26 | The matter which ought to have been debated in Parliament is whether a man needs the law 's protection in circumstances such as these . |
| 27 | A more difficult question in relation to severable contracts is whether a breach of condition in relation to one or more instalments entitles the innocent party to regard the whole contract as repudiated or whether it is a severable breach confined to the instalments in question . |
| 28 | Other typical situations where barking can be a problem are when a dog wants to come indoors or resents being left in a car on its own . |
| 29 | The old robber was sitting on the bed , whispering to himself , his face more like a trapped animal 's than a human 's . |
| 30 | Alan Harle , for the prosecution , said the court 's decision was whether a jury could convict , not whether it would convict . |