Example sentences of "[art] question [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Well I mean now basically the ri er the question about a riff-raff is er just back to the old idea whether you 're going too far or whether |
2 | When asked on one occasion what he considered Truth to be , it would seem that Gandhi interpreted the question as a request for information as to how he came to know Truth . |
3 | But this is only to look at the question as a matter of law . |
4 | A broad and often uneasy coalition — of medics , clerics , social purists , eugenists and some feminists — campaigned to raise the question as a matter of vital national and even imperial concern . |
5 | Few children interpreted the question as a physicist might , involving the way light is scattered from objects into our eyes . |
6 | Hands in pockets , he lowered his head , taking the question as a compliment . |
7 | She dismissed the question with a toss of her head . |
8 | Then she smiled and replied to the question with a joke . |
9 | The development of resource-based learning brings the question of a revision of professional roles sharply into focus . |
10 | This is mainly because of the continuing difference in opinion between the staff-side reps ( ACTS , NUJ and Staff Council ) and the other members of SSC ( SMT and Board/F&S members ) on the question of a reduction in pay differentials . |
11 | The question of a couple being happy or unhappy did not really seem to arise . |
12 | ‘ I do n't think the question of a change is one we 'd like to answer at the moment , ’ a Football Association spokesman said . |
13 | Well , with the greatest respect , the ambulance workers ' argument in the question of a pay review er is a different argument totally . |
14 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
15 | To have agreed would have meant addressing the question of a return to political pluralism , an idea which was anathema to the Caudillo . |
16 | Apart from one searing , doomed encounter during her final year at medical school , the question of a choice between her personal life and the profession had never cropped up . |
17 | ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life . |
18 | In the debate in the House of Commons on 26 June 1991 , the Foreign Secretary ruled out the question of a referendum ( which needs a separate Act of Parliament ) and , if , therefore , the question was to be deferred to a future parliament , the amendments agreed at Maastricht in December 1991 could become an issue at the next general election . |
19 | Thatcher ) — who found common ground on the question of a referendum . |
20 | Black & Decker was guarded in its response to the question of a successor to this d-i-y workhorse , but do not be surprised to see a new model fairly soon … |
21 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |
22 | UNITA , on the other hand , refused to divorce the question of a ceasefire from consideration of its other four demands — political recognition of UNITA , confirmation of President José dos Santos 's July announcement favouring multiparty politics , the setting of election dates , and the establishment of one national army . |
23 | I think that there are two aspects to the question of a quantum leap in nuclear weapons . |
24 | ‘ You need not trouble yourself , Doctor Sparrow , you need have no anxiety about the question of a wheelchair . ’ |
25 | The question of a lobotomy was debated in every case where the patient was diagnosed schizophrenic . |
26 | There was much talk and many meetings but nothing came of this venture , then in May 1909 , the question of a bridge between Halling and Wouldham was again debated . |
27 | The importance of this aspect of a partner 's duty will be readily apparent , for example , in relation to decisions taken at the insistence of a majority against the opposition of the remaining partners or where the question of a partner 's expulsion or compulsory retirement arises ( see Blisset v Daniel ( 1853 ) 10 Hare 493 ) . |
28 | The first is the question of format , the ‘ head and shoulders ’ motif identified by Packer ; the second is the question of a sequence or series and how it functions ; the third is the question of the portrait as the site of an irresolvable struggle to reconcile permanent feature with arrested motion . |
29 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
30 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |