Example sentences of "a question [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 For example , the question whether the common sense of advanced capitalist societies is qualitatively similar to the common sense of medieval society is not a question to be answered by the application of universal notions .
2 But a question to be answered and the one addressed in this chapter is — can we map the innovation process in such a way as to provide a better understanding about how it might be more effectively managed ?
3 At the same time , whether ‘ collaboration ’ always implies ‘ critical estrangement ’ is , for music as for film , a question to be answered rather than a necessary conclusion from the premises .
4 Martinho had the air of a man who was permanently waiting for a question to be answered .
5 Theory is what is generated when some aspect or literature , its nature , its history , its place in society , its conditions or production and reception , its meaning in general , or the meanings or particular works , ceases to be given and becomes a question to be argued in a generalized way .
6 For the second , public ownership has become a question to be settled on the merits of the particular case .
7 and , and , er of course that the commission looked at this as er , er , as a question to be looked at in the context of the market and of all facts , but they said you , if you want restrictions you can be sure that we wo n't give you any exemption for them , so you 'd better remove every single solitary objection , objec er restriction that we identify , that 's why at the end of the day they got er , it was a very , very strict approach by the commission , you can have nothing which is acceptable , you can get negative clearance but you 've got to be cleaner than clean , whiter than white , so remove every possible restriction .
8 However , on Nov. 13 the Assembly failed to approve any of the six versions of a question to be put in a referendum .
9 Each citizen may be said to have the right not to have sexual choices imposed on him or her ; whether the law should go further , and hold that each citizen has the right to pursue his or her sexual choices consensually with another ( subject to public-decency laws and to the protection of the young ) , is a question to be considered separately .
10 This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair .
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