Example sentences of "question was [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The second question was whether the licensing authority , which licenses medicinal products , owes a duty of care to individuals . |
| 8 | The question was whether the cost of hire was recoverable or was too remote . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The question was whether the captain 's decision to put out the boat amounted to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |