Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 2 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 3 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 4 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 5 | ‘ But ask me the same question tomorrow and I could give a whole litany of things . |
| 6 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 7 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 8 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 9 | We have been all around Britain to put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents were too afraid to ask . |
| 10 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 11 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 12 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 13 | three questions later they ask them the very question they just answered |
| 14 | So let's ask ourselves a naïve question . |
| 15 | Maecianus reports a case in which the interpretative question is whether when speaking of ‘ sums ’ ( summae ) the testator could also be held to have had in mind non-pecuniary dispositions . |
| 16 | To pass from the world of Augustine and his pagan contemporaries into the world of Gregory the Great ( pope 590–604 ) is to move by imperceptible stages from a world in which the basic question was ‘ What is a Christian ? ’ to one in which it has become ‘ How should a Christian live , behave , be a good Christian ? ’ |
| 17 | Much of the early writing on femininity and masculinity adopted a socialization perspective , in which the main question was how people learned gender stereotypes and internalized them . |
| 18 | These need not be anything more than the rough headings under which the detailed questions will fall . |
| 19 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 20 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 21 | Jacob must be asking himself the same questions now . |
| 22 | He 'd often asked himself the same question . |
| 23 | In the opening chapter of the novel , Pierre Bloye , confronted by the corpse of his father , instinctively alienated by the rituals and incantations of an absurd funeral ceremony , despairing at his mother 's willing acquiescence to the arid conventions of petty-bourgeois existence , asks himself the fundamental question : " What sort of a man was my father ? " |
| 24 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 25 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |
| 26 | Whichever way a point of law is resolved , including without lawyers being consulted , a decision on a point of law will stand unless the expert has asked himself the wrong question of law . |
| 27 | However , this line of challenge has been closed down by Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , which allows challenges only if the expert has asked himself the wrong question , including a question of law . |
| 28 | A party who wishes to appeal from a decision of an expert will be able to do so only : ( 1 ) if the expert has decided the wrong issue ; or ( 2 ) if the expert has asked himself the wrong question : see 13.6.8 . |
| 29 | — Well mate , its a good question , what with winter coming and the need to feed the soil in preparation for laying the seedlings . |
| 30 | Again , you 'll see a good example of that , where closed questions are good in a situation if you want to get a direct answer to somebody who tends to waffle , but again , if you 're asked closed questions and you want to give information , it is harder , it 's easier if you ask somebody an open question and on the film , John Cleese comes up with the starters to an open question , which are the Who , What , Which , Why , Where , When questions . |