Example sentences of "whether a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such behaviour is not obviously threatening ( although it is almost certainly disorderly ) , and it may be doubted whether a conviction of the section 4 offence is proper unless the conduct complained of is such that it is likely to lead to further violence . |
| 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 | Thus , while all the usual contractual rules about offer and acceptance , consideration , intention to create legal relations , illegality , mistake , misrepresentation , repudiation , breach , discharge and so forth are relevant to understanding the contractual context of the reference to the expert , those rules may also have a direct bearing on whether a decision of an expert can be enforced . |
| 4 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |
| 5 | But it raises the question whether a celebration of the sciences might have been one means of differentiating Protestant cultural values from those of Roman Catholicism . |
| 6 | The question of ‘ national styles ’ was one which greatly interested Panofsky whether a work of art was specifically Dutch , Italian and so forth . |
| 7 | Whether a man of his temperament , faced by the threat of French recovery , could maintain peace indefinitely was another matter . |
| 8 | The sample selected should be properly established and of an appropriate size based on whether a misstatement of a particular size or frequency would affect the interpretation of data and any points of weakness identified during systems evaluation and compliance testing . |
| 9 | Instead , consider whether there is any evidence for the jury ( sufficient to require the judge to leave the case to the jury ) ; if there is , explain how the judge would direct the jury , and state whether a verdict of guilty would be likely to be upheld or upset on appeal . |
| 10 | The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre . |
| 11 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 12 | We know from experience that many factors — some of which may never be apparent to outside observers — determine whether a prisoner of conscience is released . |
| 13 | The underlying question , however , was whether a company of this size — with virtually all of its sales confined to the British market — could survive . |
| 14 | The issue here was whether a chamber of commerce textile arbitration should have heard expert evidence . |
| 15 | whether a scheme of work has been written ; |
| 16 | At first sight , the dictum — though not the decision — the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper appears to be inconsistent with the spirit of Schedule 1 Para 32 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act , 1974 , which provides , ‘ … any provision in any agreement ( whether a contract of employment or not ) shall be void insofar as it purports to exclude or limit the operation of any provision of this Act … . ’ |
| 17 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 18 | It was difficult for the Government to judge in present circumstances whether a majority of the electors desired that capital punishment should be abolished . |
| 19 | Would it have depended upon whether a majority of members had accepted the actions and , if so , where does that leave the dissentient minority whose membership entitles them to rely upon performance of the constitutive treaty ? |
| 20 | During 1996 the European Council will determine whether a majority of member countries satisfy the convergence criteria and set a date for the union to become operational . |
| 21 | The issue before the House of Lords was whether a court of summary jurisdiction , having once accepted a plea of guilty , had jurisdiction to allow the defendant to change his plea to not guilty . |
| 22 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 23 | It is not clear , however , whether a proposal of the sort I have mentioned was put before the court . |
| 24 | — whether a range of new leaflets and guides dealing with tropical crop husbandry should be developed . |
| 25 | However , this often involves managers in taking decisions about future policy , and management level case studies commonly invite you to consider whether a change of direction is necessary , and if so , what the operational implications are . |
| 26 | ‘ No , sir , not because of that , but because you forgot about it , and because you care whether a servant of yours is comfortable or not , I gladly agree . ’ |
| 27 | They are pure punters , unable to monitor whether a board of directors is doing its job — which is why boards like them . |
| 28 | The external assessors would have responsibility for reporting their opinion of whether a board of directors had fulfilled for stewardship responsibilities outlined in the first proposal listed here . |
| 29 | Asked whether a state of emergency was an option , he said : ‘ That question has not yet arisen . ’ |
| 30 | How do you actually decide whether a state of a system , or a group of people is better than one stage than another . |