Example sentences of "[adj] question [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German Question as a theme of our political culture ’ . |
| 2 | We have five sets of three to give away , so answer the following question on a postcard to Kitsch Camp , The Face , The Old Laundry , Ossington Buildings , Moxon St , London W1 . |
| 3 | To win tickets send your answers to the following questions on a postcard or on the back of a sealed down envelope to Buddy Competition , PR Division , by Friday July 16 . |
| 4 | Star Trek raises deep , even philosophical questions in a school panto environment . |
| 5 | The highest success rates obtained ( 90–100 per cent ) were for answering simple questions about a calendar : on which days of the week were given dates and how many days there were in a given month . |
| 6 | Using pre-formulated questions as a structure for notes also provides more able children with a useful means of synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 7 | The readings in this section approach the same basic question from a number of different starting points . |
| 8 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 9 | To a publisher or bookseller working hard to make a living in a very chancy occupation time spent answering questions from a researcher who has never himself worked in a commercial business may seem to be time wasted . |
| 10 | Corbett quickly looked at Ranulf , who sat as if carved from stone , transfixed by their rapid questions like a spectator at some skilful sword fight . |
| 11 | A balance has to be struck , since too much control of the research setting can lead to situations that lack naturalism and to indicators that lack validity ; for example , the results to structured questions on a topic may not reflect the views respondents would express in any other situation . |
| 12 | Claiming that millions of people had had their lives damaged by the teachings of Roman Catholicism , one correspondent wrote , ‘ There should be no restraint in asking the most searching questions of a man … who aspires to bring people and their children into the Catholic fold . ’ |
| 13 | Tall and erect , she stood there answering Mr Hadley 's searching questions in a calm , dignified and unfaltering manner : Yes , her daughter had suffered from agoraphobia and depression ever since the birth of her little girl four years ago . |
| 14 | At first sight the schedules are daunting — a 30-page booklet for each age group asks specific questions about a child 's health , educational progress , family and social relationships , identity , social presentation and emotional development . |
| 15 | Open and closed questions with a period of miming thrown in . |
| 16 | Exasperated by what he saw as Theo 's heartless neglect of him , he unleashed a volley of angry questions to a brother he relegated to the third person : ‘ Why does n't he write ? |
| 17 | David Blunkett , shadow health secretary , said the report was a damning indictment of LAS management and highlighted fundamental questions about a lack of accountability . |
| 18 | Now a daft question in a way but how do we know it 's Tower Bridge ? |
| 19 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 20 | Politicians do this all the time , turning any given question into a cue for making the point they think is important and never mind what their questioner wants to hear . |
| 21 | The difficult questions for a manager are : How much conflict and how much cooperation ? |
| 22 | At one extreme , some of the more staunch believers , Catholic and Protestant alike , were obsessed with religious questions to a degree which most twentieth-century observers would consider neurotic and obsessional ; in contrast , at the other end of the spectrum , there existed a minority of lay men and women who consistently ignored their legal obligation to attend regular Sunday services and remained extraordinarily ignorant of even the most basic tenets of Christianity . |
| 23 | The legitimate questions for a judge in his role as interpreter of the enacted law are : ‘ How has Parliament , by the words that it has used in the statute to express its intentions , defined the category of acts that are entitled to the immunity ? |
| 24 | In any case the overriding question for a constituency party is not how many candidates it might field but how few it must . |
| 25 | The underlying question for a reader of criticism is what influences are exerted on the critic ; but as in this instance , for long it may be impossible to know the truth . |