Example sentences of "on questions [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The zygosity classification of the Swedish Twin Registry was used , which relies on questions on childhood resemblance . |
| 2 | During the campaign Nigel Jones steered clear of the race issue , refusing to be drawn on questions about Mr Taylor 's colour . |
| 3 | He was unable to comment on questions about whether an IRA cell might be operating in the area . |
| 4 | North-East pupils will be pitting their wits on questions about consumer affairs , safety and environmental issues in the regional finals of the Young Consumer of the Year contest at Gateshead on April 7 . |
| 5 | This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false . |
| 6 | According to Mr Prescott it indicates that ‘ urgent advice ’ was sought from Eurotunnel by Robert Bailey , secretary of Safety Authority , a panel of independent experts , on questions of safety raised by the MP . |
| 7 | Thus these same theories were brought to bear on questions of the intellectual capabilities and , importantly , the fertility of the British working classes . |
| 8 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 9 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | The right of appeal on questions of fact was introduced in 1874 , but restricted after 1885 . |
| 11 | He himself had received letters from all over England , seeking his advice on questions of conscience , and found that it was unsatisfactory for Anglicans to have to rely on Roman Catholic literature for guidance in such matters . |
| 12 | Their views on questions of human aggression and violence therefore assume major importance in the moral community of which they form a part . |
| 13 | Siann concludes that evidence from hormonal studies and ethology is extremely ambiguous and that no conclusions can be drawn with regard to male and female behaviour or emotions , and that psychoanalytic approaches can not produce any firm answers on questions of sex and gender ( Siann 1985 : 33–9 , 82–4 , 123–8 ) . |
| 14 | During most of this same period , however , there existed within Anglicanism another more liberal and conciliatory tradition , which drew inspiration from the work of Richard Hooker and sought to minimize controversy by advocating a wide measure of toleration on questions of dogma and ceremony . |
| 15 | Just as there was no absolute separation of the rhetoric of appeal directed to the country as compared with parliament but some differences of emphasis , so printed material circulated to decision-makers , without ignoring humanity and justice , probably relied more on evidence drawn from Privy Council and parliamentary investigations and focused on questions of national interest and economic benefit . |
| 16 | The reason for approaching the Archbishop in such a manner was essentially to ‘ force his hand ’ as , according to Mrs Whitehouse , he had frequently seemed unwilling to become involved in public debates on questions of morals . |
| 17 | Two value positions in child care have been defined , which differ on questions of child psychology , child care policy and the broader social framework in which child care policy is located . |
| 18 | Lindblom 's main point is that where local policy-makers have not made the decisions they will be slow to take action to implement them , and the significant degree of local state autonomy on questions of social policy suggests that this would be a situation easy to envisage . |
| 19 | The show has aroused considerable scholarly debate over all the fields of the artist 's activities and the closing symposium in London generated lively discussion on questions of attribution and dating . |
| 20 | There was much more of this kind of thinking in Baden-Powell 's writings where he sometimes committed himself to outrageously libertarian positions on questions of education and authority , although these were perfectly in line with the emerging contours of ‘ progressive ’ educational philosophy . |
| 21 | George Saintsbury , Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh , in his presidential address to the AGM of the Scottish branch in 1907 , emphasized the importance of bringing the influence of the Association to bear on questions of education when they came before the legislature . |
| 22 | Advances in genetics have troublesome ethical implications , bearing on questions of privacy , justice and equity : the key words are genetic discrimination . |
| 23 | The visitor is either a person holding a high judicial office , or is advised on questions of law by such a person , in whose decision on matters of law it is reasonable to repose a high degree of confidence . |
| 24 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 25 | I have therefore reached the conclusion that judicial review does not lie to impeach the decisions of a visitor taken within his jurisdiction ( in the narrow sense ) on questions of either fact or law . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is a somewhat curious body in that much of its jurisdiction is to hear appeals on questions of law , for which the lay members might appear unfitted . |
| 28 | While purity was silent on questions of pleasure and desire , libertarianism sat uneasily with feminist demands and priorities . |
| 29 | The first of these men was Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , founder of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) , who initially established contact with the Comintern and whose model was in fact not dissimilar to that proposed by the Soviet theorists , although he differed greatly on questions of strategy and tactics . |
| 30 | Appeal will often only be allowed on questions of law , and not on questions of fact . |