Example sentences of "question that had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question that had lurked under the surface of the whole conversation . |
| 2 | If the Christian continuum provided hope for the regenerate individual , it offered a much less satisfying answer to the more general question that had perplexed Job and so many others : why was there so much evil in the world that the Lord had made and seen to be good ? |
| 3 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 4 | It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all . |
| 5 | How to make life peaceful was a new question that had come to tease her mind . |
| 6 | Scott LJ ( with whom Butler-Sloss and Purchas LJJ agreed ) said that the appeal raised a question that had been before the court on a number of occasions in the past 10 years . |
| 7 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 8 | Only three republics ( Belorussia , Turkmenistan and Tajikistan ) eventually voted on the single question that had been proposed by the central authorities . |
| 9 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 10 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 11 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 12 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 13 | And the question that had troubled him in Nairobi swelled , until he stopped the car , wound down the window and with a curious naivete called : ‘ Please tell me : why are the children here hungry ? ’ |
| 14 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 15 | Dependency theorists , therefore , were still trying to answer the question that had troubled Marxists since the turn of the century , namely ‘ can capitalism develop the Third World ? ’ |
| 16 | While Luce added a liberal amount of sugar and cream to her coffee a question that had been submerged in her mind suddenly resurfaced , and she queried , ‘ How did you know where I was staying ? ’ |
| 17 | When it ended , she looped her arms around his neck and asked the one question that had yet to be answered . |
| 18 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 19 | Questions that had been submerged ( such as whether the world is becoming more secular ) have re-surfaced and been rephrased to take account of the complexities of religious beliefs and practices , and their relationship with both the individual and the increasingly complex wider society . |
| 20 | Far from creating a feeling of dissatisfaction , the opening up of such discussions frequently seemed to give them an opportunity to face questions that had been suppressed , but none the less niggling at the back of their minds . |
| 21 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 22 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 23 | Resisting the temptation to ask for answers to some of the questions that had been plaguing her , Luce shook her head . |
| 24 | Coroner John Leckey , extending his sympathy to the Phillips family , said many of the questions that had sprung to his mind about the case had been answered . |