Example sentences of "question [vb -s] to be " in BNC.

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1 The question has to be : who is the more liberated ?
2 For every person the question has to be asked afresh , and for every one it has to be asked in a manner which admits of various qualifications .
3 The question has to be raised , however , whether such an unlikely marriage of opposite ideals has worked , or could possibly work .
4 The question has to be , however , are Messrs Waters , Gilmour , Wright and Mason worthy of such a monument and , more importantly , is the music they made together all those years ago still alive in the '90s ?
5 The question has to be asked , however , if this was due to the activities of the ECSC or if it was merely a consequence of the sustained economic boom which affected the whole of Western Europe .
6 There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be .
7 But the question has to be asked .
8 The question has to be asked : ‘ Is it me , or does it happen to other climbers as well ? ’ .
9 Rather the question has to be approached in two stages .
10 On the other hand , there are in some cases statements of principle in general terms , which do not form part of the ratio decidendi and in others statements in dissenting judgments which it seems to me should be considered when the present question has to be resolved .
11 ( iii ) So far as article 5(1) itself is concerned , he submitted that it is clearly established by Court of Justice decisions that it reflects the close links created by the contract between the parties thereto , and the need to resolve all difficulties which may arise in connection with the contract in the same court in a country which has a close connection with the case , i.e. the court in the country where the obligation in question has to be performed .
12 That question has to be asked .
13 This being so , the question has to be asked : Will the expected benefits of the internal market be sufficient to offset the costs of establishing and operating it ?
14 Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ?
15 The question needs to be asked , whether such limitations would be valid on moral , ethical or social grounds given the disparities that exist in living standards …
16 One final question needs to be dealt with before leaving astrology .
17 But if it is work in which we can join , the question needs to be asked : will we respond decisively ?
18 The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms .
19 This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data .
20 The question needs to be asked , however , whether directors of public health are still needed at district level .
21 In such a case , a further question needs to be posed , namely , did the defendant realise the victim 's age or that she might be mentally abnormal in some way .
22 Answer guide : This question needs to be split up into its constituent parts in order to take the student through the progression logically .
23 A far broader question needs to be asked : Do we need this incredible amount of money spent on a minority culture when television in Scotland is so appalling in the first place ?
24 Behind this question seems to be the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing — either some thing in the world , which the word stands for , or some thing in the mind of the person who utters the word and in the mind of the person who hears it .
25 The most important question seems to be how far individuals believe they are in control of their own environment and can control what happens to them .
26 Attempts at humour aside , I now find myself penning a few words of concern for Salford 's Graduate Association now that the same question seems to be written large on the proverbial wall .
27 There is no useful definition of ‘ production ’ in the Act so the question seems to be one of the natural meaning of the word .
28 On the surface , the question seems to be one open to an answer , if we allow that literary texts do circulate in history .
29 The er honourable gentleman 's question appears to be founded on a rather curious premise , er what has what has happened what has happened to electricity prices is that have fallen six percent in real terms over the last two financial years and if he wants to know another interesting statistics I can tell him .
30 The question falls to be posed in different terms in the different fields of policy .
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