Example sentences of "whether a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always started with LM1 since I ca n't see how it 's possible to perceive whether a patient would benefit from beginning somewhere else . |
| 2 | ‘ Whether a patient 's life is valuable or not is none of a doctor 's business , ’ James Munby QC for the Official Solicitor told them . |
| 3 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 4 | Tables drawn to determine whether a patient 's medical history influenced the doctor 's involvement in decision-making revealed that only rheumatoid arthritis produced a statistically significant difference in the decision maker ( p<0.05 ; Table 4 ) . |
| 5 | This is the time when patients are assessed and nurses have an opportunity to decide whether a patient has particular problems which could endanger personal safety . |
| 6 | ( If the doctor knows whether a patient is receiving D or P , the trial is described as single blind . ) |
| 7 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |
| 8 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 9 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 10 | But such behaviour is not obviously threatening ( although it is almost certainly disorderly ) , and it may be doubted whether a conviction of the section 4 offence is proper unless the conduct complained of is such that it is likely to lead to further violence . |
| 11 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 12 | Many people think it is hard to assess whether a building is worth preserving and ask what the criteria are for trying to save it . |
| 13 | It is the percentage of these Fees-only students estimated for December 31st 1991 which dictated whether a university was given an increase in ‘ T ’ funding . |
| 14 | Institutional labels would suggest not ; it seems to be largely a matter of historical accident whether a university , polytechnic or college has a faculty/school of humanities or one of arts ( or even letters ) . |
| 15 | Whether a price indication is misleading depends , not upon what the trailer intended to convey , but upon what a consumer might reasonably understand from what he reads or is told . |
| 16 | I du n no whether a price would be a feature or a benefit . |
| 17 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 18 | In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made . |
| 19 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The question of whether a decision was ‘ legal or not ’ is sometimes put in terms of whether it was made ‘ within or without jurisdiction ’ or whether it is ‘ intra vires or ultra vires ’ ( that is , literally , ‘ within or beyond power ’ ) . |
| 23 | Furthermore , apart from the fact that it is often unclear , as a matter of law , whether a decision is illegal or not ( and so it would be unsafe just to ignore it ) , it is not the case that a void decision is for ever void . |
| 24 | Thus , we find that if certain facts must exist before the exercise of judgment then the court will examine whether those facts exist , whether a decision was made upon a proper self direction as to those facts , and whether irrelevant facts were taken into account . |
| 25 | Thus , while all the usual contractual rules about offer and acceptance , consideration , intention to create legal relations , illegality , mistake , misrepresentation , repudiation , breach , discharge and so forth are relevant to understanding the contractual context of the reference to the expert , those rules may also have a direct bearing on whether a decision of an expert can be enforced . |
| 26 | Clients contemplating determination of an issue by an expert will wish to know whether a decision can be reached which will be final , and , if not , on what grounds they or the other party can mount a challenge ; whether they can sue the expert ; and whether they can avoid cost and formality . |
| 27 | The question therefore arose as to whether a wife should be treated any differently in this respect . |
| 28 | By Hilary Applegate IF YOUR garden suffers from slow-draining surface water , slow plant growth or shallow rooting , it could pay dividends to find out whether a soil profile could provide you with a diagnosis . |
| 29 | As each excavator removes a layer of soil , decisions have to be constantly made : whether that soil is part of the layer which has just been removed or part of another layer ; where the boundaries to that layer are ; what the relationship of the layer is to the adjoining layers ; whether a soil sample is required ; and so on . |
| 30 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |