Example sentences of "[be] not [art] question " in BNC.

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1 It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required .
2 It is not a question of whether it is better or worse to remain a virgin or a bachelor , he wrote , but rather of bringing the terror to the surface .
3 This is not a question of instinct — culture is learned , not inbred , and does not refer to basic human needs .
4 It is not a question of loathing — rather sanguine hatred following the dive in the share price , ’ said one analyst .
5 ‘ It is not a question of money .
6 ‘ It is not a question of blackmail , ’ he said .
7 This is not a question , as a layman might think , of the size of a sample but of its genuine randomness .
8 Sometimes human intervention is not a question of changing the environment , but of seeking to prevent its change .
9 ‘ Homework ’ for the stroke or head-injured patient is not a question of ‘ doing exercises ’ .
10 It is not a question of being frightened of the dark ( although it can be pretty spooky on an out-of-the-way water ) , it is because I enjoy good company and a long night becomes more enjoyable with someone there to chat with ; to share the pleasure of catching big fish , or the lesser pleasure of blanking .
11 ‘ It is not a question of races but of ideals . ’
12 How this could or should affect the political decision about banning lead in petrol is not a question which I am competent to answer ; it involves too many non-scientific aspects .
13 It is not a question with an answer , for all these ‘ realities ’ are illusions in the wider sense .
14 It is not a question of you and I. Others are involved .
15 The plan ‘ is designed to create disorder and to impede the smooth transfer of power , so it is not a question of democracy , ’ Li said in his annual work report at the opening session of Congress in Peking .
16 Q ‘ This is not a question , but a report on the solution to my problem .
17 In so far as meaning is a problem for semiotics it is not a question of discovering ‘ hidden meanings ’ but one of the structure of signifiers that communicate a meaning accepted by participants .
18 He told NME : ‘ This is not a question of a lobby trying to dismantle the independent chart , it 's a matter of an established clique actively obstructing the creation of a chart . ’
19 For the male spadefoot toad , unlike the males of many other species , it is not a question of how many females he can mate with , but whether he can mate with any at all .
20 In an interview with The Art Newspaper published in May 1991 ( no.8 , p.6 ) Korolev explained : ‘ I anticipate that we must play an active role in the international art market ; it is not a question of looting the country , but of a normal integration into the world-wide process of cultural development ’ .
21 Thus , it is not a question either of military concerns or of civilian control .
22 It is not a question of showing that such an allegation misinterprets or simplifies Hegel 's texts .
23 Here it is not a question of suggesting that Hegel is somehow answerable for the excesses of capitalism or even socialism in the past two hundred years : rather what is at stake is the argument that the dominant force of opposition to capitalism , Marxism , as a body of knowledge itself remains complicit with , and even extends , the system to which it is opposed .
24 We shall examine the relation of this new humanism to the history of Western colonialism in a later chapter : it is not a question that Foucault himself elaborates in the course of what is claimed to be an , ethnology of Western culture' .
25 Friedman and Rosenman ( 1974 ) suggest that it is not a question of getting rid of Type-A behaviour , rather that we should learn to manage it .
26 And this means ; the question about the relationship between law and morals is not a question about the content of the law but one about its form . ’
27 It is not a question of whether feminists have something against ‘ men ’ .
28 Except in the case of the stallion deliberately herding his mares , this is not a question of dominance or bullying .
29 This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent .
30 For them the library essentially is the college and contains it ; it is not a question of libraries being placed in departments , but of departments being regarded as essential facets of and often included within , the library .
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