Example sentences of "to the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | It all boils down , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to the question of true causality . |
| 4 | Inevitably this leads to the question of injecting matters of a subjective nature into the account . |
| 5 | So current cognitive models of language , memory , perception and so forth are also basically neutral to the question of consciousness . |
| 6 | Nobody quite has an answer to the question ‘ why Labour for the Nineties ? ’ . |
| 7 | MR JUSTICE SAVILLE , giving the judgment of the court , said the appellant did not suggest that the co-defendant 's committing of an act of gross indecency with the appellant was not relevant to the question whether , at the same time and place , the appellant was committing a like act with the co-defendant . |
| 8 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 9 | On all known form , campaigners , opinion-formers and politicians themselves will engage in polarising rhetoric rather than genuine debate , particularly since amendments by pro-life campaigners will seek to yoke the issue of abortion to the question of embryo experimentation . |
| 10 | The rule was a framework within which this answer to the question could be lived . |
| 11 | I am even more opposed to the question of that penalty in the United Kingdom being submitted to a tribunal outside this country and to the decision of that tribunal being treated as binding . |
| 12 | In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’ |
| 13 | The experience is one to suggest an affirmative response to the question , ‘ Do Parties Make a Difference ? ’ |
| 14 | In a lecture in 1983 he argued that a civil servant who could answer ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ should retire and become a party politician . |
| 15 | Hugo Young ( ‘ Why the Dons Showed They 've Learnt the New Politics ’ , Guardian , 4 February 1985 ) appreciated this side of Mrs Thatcher and its relevance to the question of the honorary degree . |
| 16 | Once the party had shown itself , in the 1929–31 Parliament , unwilling to support Lloyd George 's programme of national reconciliation , it had no answer to the question : What did the Liberal party stand for ? |
| 17 | The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death . |
| 18 | It gave the best possible example that could be found for a rhetorical approach to the question of property . |
| 19 | This , as we have noted , is closely linked to the question whether something like classes have always existed , because the Marxist theory of history centres around the notion of class . |
| 20 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |
| 21 | The real interest of the past , he wrote , ‘ lies in the answer to the question , How did the ordinary undistinguished man live ? … and it is with a view to providing posterity with an addition to such all too scanty materials that the papers … have been embodied in permanent form . ’ |
| 22 | It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors . |
| 23 | I consider also that the decision in question was flawed to a degree by undue weight being given to the question of a disorderly collapse . ’ |
| 24 | Francis Morgan , calmer now , visibly bent his mind to the question . |
| 25 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 26 | It seems to have begun somewhat unexpectedly , when he was involved in a discussion which led to the question ‘ What is sense ? ’ |
| 27 | The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ? |
| 28 | although he would want to return to the question of public spending savings , he said that the report was a very thorough examination and also exceptionally well written . |
| 29 | So to the question : Is God green ? |
| 30 | In other words , if in Jesus Christ I find the answer to the question ‘ Where is he ? ’ then all the transitory questions of life find genuine meaning around this wonderful centre . |