Example sentences of "question that have " 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 question that has to be put is , do we have a cartel lobbyist in Washington ? ’ said Jack Blum , a former chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee on terrorism and drugs . |
| 19 | Ian Paisley was one potential leader of the right wing , but there were others and a key question that has to be asked in any explanation of Paisley 's career is ‘ how did Paisley triumph over other right-wing unionist figures ? ’ |
| 20 | The first question that has to be asked is whether in fact anything at all needs to be done . |
| 21 | This whole question is very akin to the question that has caused much debate in our profession over the years : what is a ‘ great ’ butler ? |
| 22 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 23 | I think that 's a major question that has n't been addressed . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ A good answer to a question that has no simple answer . |
| 25 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 26 | A question that has , from time to time , preoccupied newspapers and television in the last few years is the relationship between the police and black people , especially young black people . |
| 27 | The question that has to be asked first , is : How is such a framework possible ? |
| 28 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , this is a question that has concerned pluralists much more . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend give greater and more sympathetic consideration to the question that has just been asked , because those of us who understand cask-conditioned ale — real beer — know that it is extremely damaging for it to be dispensed under pressure ? |
| 30 | A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ? |