Example sentences of "it may [be] asked " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be asked : ‘ How does the Tutor react to these situations ? ’ |
| 2 | It may be asked what other side The Possessed has . |
| 3 | How , it may be asked , could any serious work be done in those circumstances ? |
| 4 | In any event , it may be asked whether all this regulation is necessary or desirable ? |
| 5 | What , it may be asked , has this to do with the law ? |
| 6 | Indeed it may be asked why companies whose first duty is to their shareholders should put huge sums into the education system . |
| 7 | It may be asked whether , since a grasp of general principles is what is evidently needed , and an ability to connect together ideas derived from different disciplines , it would not be sensible to teach philosophy as a separate subject at school . |
| 8 | It may be asked what it is that disturbs a person when he feels the ‘ prick of conscience ’ . |
| 9 | If we do not have such rights then , it may be asked , what do we have ? |
| 10 | It may be asked , if there is among Anglican church planters a hesitation about wearing robes and if there is a positive desire to adapt the liturgy of the Church of England , why and in what way can they say that they remain Anglican ? |
| 11 | What , in the end it may be asked , did he and his family achieve , good works apart ? |
| 12 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 13 | If , as the above evidence suggests and as Karlsson has argued , sufferers from psychosis — whether we call it schizophrenia or affective disorder — and the highly creative do in fact share the same genes , then it may be asked : what , in psychological terms , is inherited ? |
| 14 | It may be asked why psychiatry has made such heavy weather of coming round to that view . |
| 15 | It may be asked , how do these structural arrangements vary across countries ? and what are the determinants of the variations and what are their consequences for industrial relations systems ? |
| 16 | More generally , it may be asked to what extent it is appropriate to regard collective bargaining — the explanatory variable in Clegg 's theory — as an independent and primary determinant in its own right , rather than as a transmission mechanism for other forces . |
| 17 | It may be asked , however , to what extent this morphology would differ from that of thick-enamelled hominoid ancestors from the Miocene , and on what basis , therefore , should these fossils from Lothagam and Tabarin be identified as human ancestors . |
| 18 | It may be asked what there is to stop people adopting inconsistent attitudes . |
| 19 | It may be asked whether children need to see that the paragraphs beginning ‘ Their names … ’ and ‘ Their mother … ’ are a condensed report of what the boys told Janey , and not the ‘ author 's voice ’ speaking directly to the reader . |
| 20 | Yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and forced to conform to wills which are not his own . |
| 21 | If this is correct , it may be asked why it is necessary to deal with the established , nominate torts at all , to which one can only respond that until the limits of the general tort are clearly established plaintiffs are likely to rely upon as many causes of action as they can , even though from our point of view it is untidy to have two or more torts rather than one . |
| 22 | It may be asked how the great bearded father figure comes into the matter . |
| 23 | It may be asked why , if we have had this enormous devolution and if Parliament , with a unitary system , is able to respond to the distinct needs of Scotland , this should not continue . |
| 24 | It may be asked why , with a separate legal system and a separate Scottish Office , it is necessary to go any further and establish a directly-elected Assembly . ’ |
| 25 | As Rousseau said , ‘ yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and conform to wills which are not his own ’ . |
| 26 | Why then , it may be asked , are n't such contracts more widespread ? |