Example sentences of "the question [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it unlikely that there is any further evidence which would put the question beyond doubt . |
| 2 | That 's right , Randy , is n't it ? ’ he asked , calling across the table to get the question off his back . |
| 3 | The question over the conflicts of interest was raised by Diane Abbott , Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington , in the House of Commons debate . |
| 4 | It continues to maintain a negative rating outlook on IBM because of its business uncertainties and the question over ultimate success of restructuring . |
| 5 | Now members of the Labour group of transport probably , it , it , it 's the question over lossing airport came up there and one came up now . |
| 6 | The question during Mr Baker 's recent tour was whether Israel 's Yitzhak Shamir or Syria 's Hafez Assad would run out of excuses first . |
| 7 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |
| 8 | All this begs the question about the reliability of Mr Dole 's gut . |
| 9 | Another joke posed the question about how long the war would go on , to which the answer ran : ‘ Until Goebbels 's trousers fit Göring . ’ |
| 10 | The question about tackling more tasks on the farm than at present was to ascertain if women : ( a ) wanted to do more , or ( b ) thought it was their responsibility to be able to contribute more to the farm . |
| 11 | Even during the heyday of the comics , certain science fiction stories were raising the question about the misuse of science . |
| 12 | This has raised the question about what happens for competitors for whom none of these approved helmets fit , as some paddlers have found . |
| 13 | From this face came the question about the Ayckbourn play . |
| 14 | Simon Cormack had been fifteen days in his underground cell , and thirteen since he had answered the question about Aunt Emily and known that his father was trying to get him out . |
| 15 | The Question about Resurrection ( Mark 12:18–27 ; Matt. |
| 16 | The Question about the Greatest Commandment ( Mark 12:28–34 ; Matt. |
| 17 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 18 | The question about the early training approach is whether it is the mother or the child who is trained . |
| 19 | Consider the question ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ There exist pains I do n't feel , pains in other minds ’ ? ’ , and compare it with the question about afternoon on the Sun . |
| 20 | In this example , the assumption is probably true , but if the question about cigarettes is not asked , then there is no chance that the researcher could ever discover that they are a factor . |
| 21 | In reviewing the material in this chapter , I have simply posed the question about whether , and in what circumstances , support within kin groups can be one-way , or whether there is always some pressure to reciprocate . |
| 22 | The question about history then becomes the more interesting one of the relation between different significations , and the ways in which such differences can , or can not , be articulated and unified under the same horizon of totalization to produce a single meaning . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 25 | This is brought out in the answers Joanna Giles gave to the question about standards : |
| 26 | However , it is very rare indeed for the question about the inappropriate use of acute beds by younger patients to be raised . |
| 27 | Almost casually , I threw in the question about the Daily Mirror attack on him . |
| 28 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 29 | Let us begin by trying to answer the question about what kind of company they wish to be , and what should be their strategy . |
| 30 | The question about the first category was the same as the 1984 survey , but that about the second differed in that it was concerned with the use of agency workers in the previous month rather than the previous 12 months . |