Example sentences of "[adj] question [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issues about which respondents expressed concern included the use made of the results by , variously , the police authorities and the IRA , and the associated question of whether the field-worker was a spy for the authorities or the Republican paramilitaries ( on researchers as spies see Hunt 1984 : 288–9 ; Manning 1972 : 248 ) ; the obtrusiveness of the ethnographer 's ubiquitous notepad ; sensitivity to how the research might compromise their personal security or lead to a transfer , and worthies over the field-worker 's religion ; and the whole focus and topic of the investigation . |
| 2 | There is the separate question of whether the opportunity to acquire Target or its business derives from management 's status as directors and employees . |
| 3 | ( It may seem ironical that the initial question of whether the case should go to arbitration or trial involved three hearings — two in the county court and one in the Court of Appeal . ) |
| 4 | However , it entirely failed to consider the far more important question of whether the definition should be extended for the crimes of obtaining sexual intercourse by threats or false pretences . |
| 5 | In order to avoid the difficult question of whether the sea rises or the land sinks , it is customary to describe any movement involving a rise of the land relative to the sea as a negative movement of base level , or more simply as a rejuvenation since the processes of subaerial erosion are given new activity . |
| 6 | Western moral thought has also been concerned with the related question of whether the fetus is a person , with all the attendant rights of a human being . |
| 7 | A greater awareness amongst public librarians of the need to conserve rare books is quite likely to bring into sharper focus the whole question of whether the retention of those books is necessary , desirable or economic . |