Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [subord] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alan Harle , for the prosecution , said the court 's decision was whether a jury could convict , not whether it would convict . |
| 7 | A dyspeptic , phlebitic , tuberculous — yet still bellicose — gourmet , to whom such rarefied nourishment was as a staff of life … |