Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lunch was as the captain had promised , a grand meal of many dishes . |
| 4 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 5 | Lord Wilberforce , while agreeing in the result , said that the test was whether the act done , pursuant to the general intention , was reasonably capable of achieving its objective . |
| 6 | The test was whether the prosecution could show that the tipper received some form of direct or indirect personal benefit from the outlawed conduct . |
| 7 | More recently , in a modern banking case certainty arose when the issue was whether a char-terer had paid the owner on time . |
| 8 | For example , in Meade v. Haringey LBC the issue was whether the council had breached its duty by closing its schools during a strike of ancillary workers . |
| 9 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 10 | This approach was confirmed in the Ashington Piggeries case where it was recognised that both the seller and buyer had their own areas of expertise and the issue was whether the defect fell within the respective area of expertise of the buyer . |
| 11 | However , with regard to non-UK source income the point in issue was whether the income arose to a person who resided in the United Kingdom within Schedule D , s18(1) ( a ) ( i ) . |
| 12 | Before the House of Lords , the issue was whether the benefit to the taxpayers should be computed on an average cost basis including a proportion of the school 's overheads , or on a marginal cost basis , as the taxpayers claimed . |
| 13 | Though this case is always cited on the issue of whether the performance of a contractual obligation owed to a third party can be good consideration , the principal point at issue was whether the testator made an offer of contract at all . |
| 14 | The final matter considered by the judge was whether the appellant had established the necessary animus possidendi in relation to the premises . |
| 15 | The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was no longer just a question whether reason and science could tolerate divine intervention in the apparently stable and unalterable laws of the universe ; the new and more insidious question was whether the universe had required a creator in the first place . |
| 18 | The question was whether the installation of central heating was ‘ an improvement made by the execution of works amounting to a structural alteration … . ’ within the Housing Act 1974 . |
| 19 | When an increase of capital was later proposed , the question was whether the provision in the agreement was inconsistent with the statutory power under the Companies Act to increase capital , and therefore an unlawful and invalid restriction on the power of the company to increase its share capital . |
| 20 | The English courts had to consider the meaning of the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ as used in section 9(1) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 , passed mainly to give effect to the Convention ; the precise question was whether the evidence sought was ‘ for the purposes of civil proceedings … before the requesting court ’ within section 1 of the Act , the italicised phrase being interpreted in section 9 to mean proceedings in any civil or commercial matter . |
| 21 | The second question was whether the licensing authority , which licenses medicinal products , owes a duty of care to individuals . |
| 22 | The question was whether the cost of hire was recoverable or was too remote . |
| 23 | In Emmerson ( reported at [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 194 with Commentary ) the tape had been played at trial , and the question was whether the jury were entitled to be provided with a copy of it after retiring , so that they could hear again the all-important tone of voice of the officer conducting one of the interviews . |
| 24 | Whoever had taken the decision to commit the party to armed insurrection in 1930 , what was now to be called in question was whether the party had any right at all to make such decisions for itself . |
| 25 | The question was whether the employer had acted reasonably in all the circumstances in regarding absence from point of duty as sufficient reason for dismissal . |
| 26 | For the purpose of his decision in Re Sigsworth , the trial judge assumed it to have been proved that the deceased , Mary Ann Sigsworth , had been murdered by her son ; and the question was whether the son was entitled to her estate as ‘ issue ’ under the Act . |
| 27 | The question was whether the captain 's decision to put out the boat amounted to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 28 | As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act . |
| 29 | In Havering London Borough v. Stevenson ( 1970 D.C. ) the question was whether the defendant had applied the false trade description ‘ in the course of a trade or business . ’ |
| 30 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |