Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your senior executives have the information to help them answer the following questions they will be well equipped to make the right decisions . |
| 2 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 3 | Now if you get a situation like that I mean the key question is do people actually want to change in this kind of way , or would they at least like to sort of experiment a little bit in the way they handle a group of children ? |
| 4 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
| 5 | Okay but I got some right , I got the actual question wrong on that one , just I , shall I do that one ? |
| 6 | And in the welcome peace of Jim D'Addario 's office , I pose the obvious question : they 're turning out strings literally by the mile , so how come they 're so expensive ? |
| 7 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 8 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 9 | To take my hon. Friend 's point , I ask the rhetorical question : is it possible to solve this grave difficulty simply by suppressing a name or ordering the press not to publish it ? |
| 10 | And I think the main question , and the best question that could be asked to the audience if they really |
| 11 | As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent . |
| 12 | Well i it was just that I , I missed the initial question |
| 13 | There was another piece which asked the simple question : ‘ How far are you prepared to go to turn on a tap ? ’ which was an appeal for cash help to provide water supplies , any water supplies , in the Third World . |
| 14 | Again , it is , as Sen puts it , ‘ the tradition of thinking in terms of what exists rather than in terms of who can command what ’ ( Sen 1981 : 8 , quoted in Redclift 1982 : 1 ) which ignores the vital question of access to food production and the fuel to cook it . |
| 15 | All of which prompts the obvious question : how fundamental were these changes ? |
| 16 | But after the vulgar beauty has faded , we face a grey ash of burn-out , a misanthropic dawn which prompts the old question : was it worth it after all ? |
| 17 | All of which beg the following questions . |
| 18 | This provides a contrast with many of the English papers which had the occasional question on ‘ Discuss Rossetti's/Dickens's/Browning's representation of women ’ , but never had anything on an author 's representation of men . |
| 19 | The Co Down reader who asked the simple question is a mature driver with a modest car . |
| 20 | It was Hilary Robarts who asked the obvious question , sounding as accusatory as a peevish wife . |
| 21 | Once Mrs Long had also sat down , she posed the obvious question . |
| 22 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 23 | She ignored the searching question . |
| 24 | I would like to follow up your article on the Letters page of April 's Woodworker by asking you to put the following question to your experts or readers . |
| 25 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 26 | If you ask the wrong question , word it badly , then the result reflects that . |
| 27 | This can not in itself resolve the philosophical questions which underlie the controversy . |
| 28 | She felt the whispered question rather than heard it . |
| 29 | Her voice was shaking a little as she put the important question to him . |
| 30 | Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade . |