Example sentences of "into question [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 2 | Finland 's special relations with the Soviet Union and particularly its bilateral barter trading arrangement came into question during 1990 as a result of the political and economic upheavals in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | These constitutional provisions had previously been called into question during a highly controversial case in February 1992 when the High Court in Dublin prevented a 14-year-old girl and her family from procuring an abortion or from leaving Ireland for nine months , even though she had repeatedly threatened to commit suicide ; the order preventing her from leaving the country was subsequently lifted after an appeal based on recognition of the equal rights of mother and child and the right to freedom of movement within the EC [ see p. 38780 ] . |
| 4 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
| 5 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
| 6 | Metaphysics , he writes , ‘ transcendence , the welcoming of the other by the same , of the Other by me , is concretely produced as the calling into question of the same by the other , that is , as the ethics that accomplishes the critical essence of knowledge ’ ( 43 ) . |
| 7 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 8 | But ‘ contestation ’ — the calling into question of authority — came from within as well as without . |
| 9 | This agreement , arrived at in a period of relative stability in international air travel , had been thrown into question with the arrival — and more pertinently , the collapse — of Freddie Laker 's cut-price service . |
| 10 | Our Sunday Trading laws have come into question as a result of a possible conflict with Article 30 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 11 | Before long , his judgment was called into question over ‘ favours from friends ’ . |
| 12 | Haughey 's own position had been called into question over the involvement of close associates in a series of financial scandals , in particular at the state telecommunications monopoly Telecom Éireann , whose chairman Michael Smurfit resigned over a property deal on Sept. 24 at Haughey 's instigation , and at the recently privatized sugar group Greencore ( formerly Irish Sugar PLC ) , whose chief executive Chris Comerford had also resigned in September amid allegations of illegal share dealings by senior executives . |
| 13 | As a result of changes effected by the Companies Act 1989 the objects clause no longer limits the company 's capacity , or at least , the validity of an act may no longer be ‘ called into question on the ground of lack of capacity ’ . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , even when this fairly uncontroversial observation is accepted , the debate occasionally assumes an additional layer of confusion when the underlying structure of the Keynesian model is called into question on account of the supposedly irrational behaviour of the suppliers of labour in that model . |
| 15 | As respects England and Wales or Northern Ireland , any provision in an Act passed before 1st August 1958 that any order or determination shall not be called into question in any court , or any provision in such an Act which by similar words excludes any of the powers of the High Court , shall not have effect so as to prevent the removal of the proceedings into the High Court by order of certiorari or to prejudice the powers of the High Court to make orders of mandamus . |
| 16 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 17 | Dickinson and the only clear authority , ( David Raymond ) Smith , has been called into question in the House of Lords . |
| 18 | By the 1960s , however , the ‘ success ’ of the existing social formation was beginning to be called into question in various ways . |
| 19 | Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract . |
| 20 | But it 's as well Mrs Abberley made a clean breast of it when she did , especially since the tape recording confirms — so she tells me — the existence of the letters which … which has been called into question in certain quarters . ’ |
| 21 | The role of the private practitioner has , however , been called into question in respect of two of the requirements of an advice agency discussed at the beginning of this chapter , namely the cost and availability of the service . |
| 22 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 23 | But his bravery was called into question in 1967 when an ex-tory MP queried whether the MC was genuine or a fiction invented by the publisher . |
| 24 | It calls his integrity into question in a really big way , it also by implication calls into question the integrity of a lot of other men you might come across . |
| 25 | There 's an in er a strong tendency to call the the testimony of people who 've been abused into question in this way . |
| 26 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |
| 27 | The willingness of England to welcome foreigners into its communities , celebrated during wartime in the pleasantries of Tawny Pipit ( 1944 ) , is thrown into question by the searing melodrama of Frieda ( 1947 ) , where the ‘ kindly , good-natured people ’ of Denfield become vicious xenophobes when the stranger amongst them is a blonde German girl . |
| 28 | The capacity of the young worker for rational , thoughtful , and informed actions was brought into question by the new identity that was bestowed upon the transition process . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the state-as-actor view of international relations is called into question by the involvement of other actors in the conflicts of the 1970s . |
| 30 | Since the second world war , but especially since the 1960s , the role of ‘ national economies ’ has been undermined or even brought into question by the major transformations in the international division of labour , whose basic units are transnational or multinational enterprises of all sizes , and by the corresponding development of international centres and networks of economic transactions which are , for practical purposes , outside the control of state governments . |