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

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1 was convicted on the murder of after the judge ruled that a statement to the police was admissible .
2 With photography , and the uncertainty of whether the picture would be a success , there could be no such climax .
3 A qualitative analysis of the various subtests can be used to identify specific difficulties with grammar and as an indication of whether the child is progressing in the same way as most normal children , or whether there are signs of deviant patterns .
4 We are given no real indication of whether the title was warranted or not , official or not , recognised or not .
5 However , there was no immediate indication of whether the SOC would drop its reservations about the UN peace plan , under which the SNC would assume temporary sovereignty of Cambodia during a UN-supervised transition period to free elections .
6 The interesting issues in this area arise from the balancing of the interests of employer and employee involved in the assessment of whether the dismissal was unfair .
7 However , your assessment of whether the manager is reputable , experienced and has a good performance record will be of prime importance .
8 The assessment of whether an odour problem amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of the Public Health Act 1936 is a most difficult decision and then to justify that decision before a court equally so .
9 And until there is evidence to prove any of these claims it is best to try to make your own judgement of whether a method works or does not work with your learners .
10 Thus , the choice of a pronoun in language production ( and also a comprehender 's judgement of whether the pronoun is appropriate ) depends not simply on a representation of the object in a mental model , but on how that object would be linguistically labelled .
11 He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers .
12 Fisher 's study also suggested that recall was not a good measure of whether a road sign had been heeded .
13 Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) .
14 The test of whether a surface needs disinfection can be made by applying the definition to a working situation .
15 Exclusive possession as a concept for identifying tenancies does not drive a coach and horses through the Rent Acts but rather puts the cart before the horse : a phrase used to describe the collective rights of the tenant is inappropriate as a test of whether a tenancy has in fact been created .
16 the test of whether a plaintiff had acted reasonably in bringing a case late was an objective one not subjective .
17 But me only objective test of whether an organism has tree will is whether its behavior can be predicted .
18 The real test of whether the message to run yell and tell when they see a stranger will be when the children leave the theatre .
19 THE ministerial meeting of the Group of 24 industrial market economies in Brussels today will provide the first test of whether the West is ready to rise to the occasion in Eastern Europe .
20 The court will apply a test of whether the plaintiff 's rescue attempt was likely as a result of the breach of duty and whether the plaintiff acted reasonably .
21 The determination of whether a capital instrument represents a liability is based on whether it contains an obligation for the issuer to transfer economic benefits ( paragraph 21 ) .
22 The determination of whether a fabric is grain- or mud-supported otherwise takes considerable experience to determine from thin sections , which are essentially two-dimensional .
23 Comparison — a determination of whether the defendant has copied a substantial part of the protected expression — whether any aspect has been copied and , if so , an assessment of the copied portion 's relative importance in respect of the plaintiff 's overall program .
24 The issue of whether a church represents a significant body of opinion is a matter for the decision of the licensing board .
25 While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value .
26 There is the issue of whether a household 's resources really are shared equally between husbands and wives .
27 None of those factors , er I hope we can agree , have any relevance at all do they to the issue of whether a site performs one of the five greenbelt functions ?
28 But it was confined to the specific issue of whether a duty of care existed — to establish liability , a plaintiff must also prove breach of duty , and loss caused by that breach .
29 But — quite apart from the issue of whether a woman like myself can in any meaningful way identify herself with women in the remote past — one must ask how could this be useful theologically ?
30 Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed .
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