Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would the length of each side be if the perimeter was 20m ? |
| 2 | This is one criterion for judging the value of an analysis ; unless one believes in carrying out phonological analysis for purely aesthetic reasons , the only other important criterion is whether the analysis corresponds to the representation of sounds in the human brain . |
| 3 | The time to take avoiding action is before the situation even arises ! |
| 4 | With Labour preparing to unveil specific policies today , Mr Clarke said that the acid test of Labour 's new rhetoric and any new consensus on crime was whether the party would support the Government crackdown in the Commons . |
| 5 | In that case , which involved the transfer of patients and the lease of a building from one drug dependency foundation to another as a result of the local authority 's decision to transfer its subsidy , the Court took the same view that the decisive criterion was whether the business in question retained its identity and adopted a similar approach to the range of factors to be taken into account by the national court in deciding this matter . |
| 6 | It is sufficient here merely to note the importance of the objective test for agreement , the relevant question being whether the offeree has accepted the offer in the sense in which a reasonable person would have understood it . |
| 7 | At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys . |
| 8 | Butt what 's at stake is whether the Independent has to raise capital again , and whether it could do so without someone else taking control . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The issue for company law is whether the law should recognize and how far it should protect these non-contractual expectations and relationships of trust and dependence . |
| 11 | Erm what it counts as a spelling error is if the word is n't in the dictionary , it 's a spelling error . |
| 12 | ‘ The law 's attitude is because the hunt is legal , we are not . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An apparently fundamental issue is whether the scheme is voluntary or ‘ mandatory ’ ( or compulsory — the terms are numerous ) . |
| 15 | Reliance need not be total as the issue is whether the description is material in influencing the decision to buy . |
| 16 | Be that as it may , the real question at issue is whether the provision was intended simply to provide a remedy in respect of proprietary rights that either entitled the proprietor to have some entry made on the register or entitled the proprietor to have some entry removed from the register or whether the provision should be construed as creating a new cause of action entitling the court to make rectification orders as it might in its discretion think fit in favour of persons who would not under substantive law , apart from paragraph ( b ) , have any proprietary rights which they could assert against the registered proprietor or chargee . |
| 17 | Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description . |
| 18 | The issue is whether the health authority is , in the premises , liable to the plaintiff in negligence . |
| 19 | The issue is whether the bank can be in any better position than Mr. Aboody if , when Mr. Aboody was acting on its behalf , Mr. Aboody exerted … undue influence . |
| 20 | The issue is whether the bank can be in any better position than Mr. Aboody if , when Mr. Aboody was acting on its behalf , Mr. Aboody exerted ( or , if this had been a class 2 case , was presumed to have exerted ) undue influence . |
| 21 | It may appear that this information is already known but the point at issue is whether the supervisor knows and whether reality matches assumptions . |
| 22 | The issue is whether the Code applied to this situation at all . |
| 23 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 24 | The second reason why conflicts of interest are particularly important in the financial services sector is because the nature of financial services themselves are inherently special . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Thus , if a tribunal is given jurisdiction over assault the question is whether an assault exists in the opinion of that tribunal . |