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

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1 The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety .
2 More recently , in a modern banking case certainty arose when the issue was whether a char-terer had paid the owner on time .
3 The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Alan Harle , for the prosecution , said the court 's decision was whether a jury could convict , not whether it would convict .
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