Example sentences of "put the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liliane Landor reports on an issue that has shaken the foundations of French politics and put the question of immigration firmly back on the agenda A country divided . |
| 2 | ‘ Put the question ! |
| 3 | As I put the question again in 1974 , ‘ Why is Man so restless and so divided an animal ? |
| 4 | To such objectors we simply put the question : what sort of evidence would you require to be convinced that miracles did occur ? |
| 5 | Ken , when they put the question , replied , ‘ A quiet life , ’ but they did n't believe that either . |
| 6 | It being half-past Eleven o'clock , Mr. Speaker — put the Question , pursuant to Standing Order No. 15 ( Prayers against statutory instruments , &c. ( negative procedure ) ) : |
| 7 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 8 | He says , you know , what do you think and I say well look it 's up to you and I put the question back to him and say well what do you think ? |
| 9 | Furthermore , Adenauer was prepared to put the question of national unity on the back burner as a result of his clear moral choice for the values of the West . |
| 10 | He even preferred not to put the question to the vote in 1952 after Stalin 's offer of unification in exchange for neutrality for fear that the Germans might well be tempted by that option . |
| 11 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 12 | How , to put the question more broadly , might they have affected the shape of the Roman law of succession as a whole ? |
| 13 | REGARDING Mr E.W. Swanton 's interesting piece on A.E.J. Collins ( Watching Brief , April issue ) may I be permitted to put the question of declarations into perspective . |
| 14 | ‘ And you were a fool to put the question that did arise , ’ said the King 's uncle unexpectedly . |
| 15 | Or , to put the question in terms closer to his own , are the principles enunciated in the system of Absolute Idealism really the truth to which these theological teachings point ? |
| 16 | In 1928 Pare Lorentz was to put the question ‘ Who goes to the movies in America ? ’ and his answer was ‘ Everybody . ’ |
| 17 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 18 | ‘ Are there any pragmatists in Iran ? ’ asked Clair George , the CIA 's deputy director of operations , putting the question rhetorically ; ‘ Does anyone play the piano in the Fiji Islands ? |
| 19 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
| 20 | No use even putting the question . |
| 21 | He knew it was hardly worth putting the question . |
| 22 | Yet this was not a criminal trial but a judicial inquiry , and even if Lane wanted to chance his arm by putting the question , Brabin might have come to my rescue by explaining it . |
| 23 | Putting the question point blank he said ‘ Did the US admit that Indo-China was the key-stone in South-East Asia ? |
| 24 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
| 25 | Putting the question this way makes clear that a justification in terms of wealth relies on a trade-off : corporate decision-making power should be accepted as the price of efficient wealth creation . |
| 26 | I can hear her putting the question in the room behind me . |
| 27 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , Mr. Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Heseltine relating to Local Government Finance not later than Ten o'clock ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 28 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |
| 29 | Could you put the question first please . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) No Motion shall be made in the Standing Committee relating to the sitting of the Committee except by a member of the Government , and the Chairman shall permit a brief explanatory statement from the Member who moves , and from a Member who opposes , the Motion , and shall then put the Question thereon . |