Example sentences of "of question [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In doing this it is likely that much of the richness of the uncontrolled interview will be lost , but the aims of the formal interview are not richness , rather they are uniformity of question from a team of fieldworkers , and rapid quantification of answers for analysis and testing .
2 These can be an entertaining way of testing yourself , and some of the more sophisticated products can be made to generate batches of questions for a paper at random , just to add to the challenge .
3 I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life .
4 People are trying to make sense of the bad news they have received , and are asking all sorts of questions as a way of regaining control of a situation that has frightened and disturbed them .
5 Taczek remained sprightly even in the interview room and treated the first half hour of questions as a party game .
6 It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded .
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