Example sentences of "[adv] a question [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment . |
| 2 | What others call us is very much a question of age-group . |
| 3 | When the economic crisis became severe , community mobilization became not so much a question of participation in decision-making as practical support to keep schools and education projects going . |
| 4 | This has been not so much a question of exegesis but of hermeneutics , searching for the underlying meaning and background to the understanding and belief in the demonic world ( see Carr 1981 ) . |
| 5 | But it is also very much a question of medium and size . |
| 6 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 7 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 8 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 9 | Nor is it merely a question of politics . |
| 10 | This is merely a question of research . |
| 11 | The dispute between Derrida and Foucault was less a question of text versus history than an argument about history itself . |
| 12 | It is less a question of efficiency or cleanliness than a refusal to let past and present blur together . |
| 13 | Not only a question about art . |
| 14 | Appeals from decisions of magistrates ' courts on less serious cases go either , if only a question of law is disputed , to the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division or , where the appeal is on questions of fact and/or law , to the Crown Court . |
| 15 | Perhaps the social science historian needs more contextual information because the passage of time may make it more difficult to make assumptions about what data signify , but this is surely only a question of degree . |
| 16 | Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money . |
| 17 | Privatisation , then , is not only a question of secularisation . |
| 18 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 19 | Underpowered , overweight and outdated , the once 200 strong fleet , affectionately known as ‘ Whistlers ’ was in decline from the mid-1970s , and when major overhauls ceased at BREL Crewe in 1981 it was only a question of time before they disappeared first from top link Eastern Region duties , and finally in 1985 freight workings originating from the North West . |
| 20 | De Gaulle was not immortal , and so it was only a question of time before further attempts could be made to find a sheltered anchorage off the Western European shore . |
| 21 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 22 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 23 | And it is only a question of time before cholera , raging in northern Brazil , reaches Rio . |
| 24 | It was only a question of time — unless help arrived . |
| 25 | Its value abroad was too high for the UK to compete , so its fall was only a question of time . |
| 26 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 27 | It was only a question of time . |
| 28 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 29 | ‘ Only a question of time , then . |
| 30 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |