Example sentences of "[vb pp] whether [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their counsel , John Mitchell , QC , said that it had yet to be decided whether an appeal would be pursued and it was unclear whether that could be arranged before the meeting at Brockville tonight . |
| 2 | Without considering the individual cases , he was to have decided whether the Government can be sued over its policy on allocation of resources . |
| 3 | It remains to be seen whether the board can get together and be in a position to give an answer in the time set . ’ |
| 4 | But it remains to be seen whether the commission will examine events of the early 1980s which led to 261 Canadians being infected by contaminated blood and about 800 haemophiliacs becoming infected by tainted blood products . |
| 5 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 6 | It remains to be seen whether the Revenue will seek amendments to the legislation in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 7 | It remains to be seen whether the restructuring will save money , or merely shift essential expenditure between agencies , or simply reduce available services . |
| 8 | He would break with Lloyd George , and it would remain to be seen whether the victim would be himself or the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | The chairman of British Coal was asked whether every colliery would remain open if it were to produce at 130p per gigajoule . |
| 10 | Prof. Smith in The Law of Theft , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1990 , para. 385 , and in his commentary on Whiteside attacked present law which requires there to be asked whether a person would be deceived . |
| 11 | Where this test is satisfied it is not conclusive proof that the person is ‘ driving ’ and it must be asked whether the person can be said to be ‘ driving ’ under the ordinary meaning of that word . |
| 12 | The House itself will take a decision on the matter later this evening when the Question will be put whether the Bill should or should not be considered in Committee of the whole House . |
| 13 | In Glamorgan in 1965 a company responsible for the collapse of a bridge was acquitted of manslaughter but the defence apparently never questioned whether a company can be guilty of manslaughter . |
| 14 | It was questioned whether an organisation can demand the performance of its constitutive treaty from its members . |
| 15 | But it was thirty-one years later and recent scholarship has questioned whether the anecdote might not have been a retrospective invention . |