Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second reason for pressing the educational question is that only the largest of our national museums can afford to mount the kinds of ‘ spectacular ’ exhibitions cited two paragraphs back . |
| 2 | It discussed computers writing stories , with out asking the fundamental question , could computer-produced stories ever be of any value ? |
| 3 | GUIL : Exactly , it 's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can . |
| 4 | " Every question asked requires historical information to be applied : the basic need here is for the candidate to select information which is relevant and to organise it in such a way that it is directed towards answering the specific question asked . " |
| 5 | Simply expressed , and taking these two points together , pluralists are charged with asking the wrong question ( who participates instead of who benefits ) about just the public aspect of policy-making so that they ignore the " private " aspect of power and policy-making altogether . |
| 6 | The study is not explicitly concerned with providing answers but with putting the relevant questions , along with the arguments pro and con for each . |
| 7 | ‘ An instinct for asking the right questions . ’ |
| 8 | and she seemed fairly confident about her questionnaire in developing the right question in questionnaire , but I suppose that would be in conjunction with people like you |
| 9 | In considering the various questions of construction that arise in this case it is convenient , in my opinion , to consider section 6(2) and section 61(1) separately . |
| 10 | Melissa checked herself from asking the obvious question ; the girl might fear betrayal if she wanted to know her exact whereabouts . |
| 11 | A court , if it wishes to interfere , can always characterise an alleged error as having resulted from asking the wrong question , or having taken account of irrelevant considerations . |
| 12 | It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose . |
| 13 | While the British press is usually circumspect in discussing the German question , there are frequent articles in the French press about the dangers of German domination . |
| 14 | Provided they do n't hold up the meeting too often , it is often useful to have one such man at the meeting , since he can be relied upon to ask the naive question that many others would like to ask but dare not . |
| 15 | Luke broke off without completing the shocked question , the appalled look in his eyes gradually giving way to contrition as he stared at her . |
| 16 | The whole of his work depended on asking the right questions . |
| 17 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 18 | Anyone who reads Capital without posing the critical question of its object sees no malice in this word that ‘ speaks ’ to him : he happily continues the discourse whose first word this word may be , the ideological discourse of history , and then the historicist discourse . |
| 19 | That evening he devoted to discussing the agreeable question of what he should wear for his triumphant entry into London . |
| 20 | We will see how the development of Anglo-Saxon archaeology , in which the number of practitioners has always been relatively small , has engendered a conservative approach to the period which was not suited to answering the fundamental questions relating to human social evolution . |
| 21 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 22 | Use them intelligently by asking the right questions on the form , interpreting the answers correctly and comparing the candidates ' qualifications to the job and personnel specifications you have drawn up . |
| 23 | This merits test is often expressed by asking the following question : ‘ If this applicant were the private client of a solicitor would he or she be advised to take or defend the action ? ’ |
| 24 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 25 | You could be a winner by answering the following questions : |
| 26 | You could win one by answering the following question : |
| 27 | But by formulating the central questions ( sometimes subconsciously ) the production is made coherent and given a focus . |