Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply to the main question , my right hon. Friend said that he had had discussions with motor vehicle manufacturers . |
| 2 | Secondly , and this became clear in the negotiations that followed , machines were the real key to the whole question . |
| 3 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 4 | As Robinson ( 1985 , p. 42 ) puts it , ‘ the FMI merely adds a new twist to the whole question of … civil servants ’ answerability to Parliament' . |
| 5 | Indeed the major criticism is properly addressed to the advocates of nationalisation , who had given far too little attention to the general question of pricing and investment rules by which the public sector should operate . |
| 6 | He took his argument further than that based on the existence of the pluralist society whether of his day or ours , and drew attention to the crucial question of truth-claims which can not be publicly demonstrated in such a way that reasonable people may not disagree . |
| 7 | The Reports gave close attention to the vexed question of enclosures and commoners ' rights in the forest . |
| 8 | Details of the physical characteristics of the zones , however , are of secondary importance to the central question — how has the private sector responded to these limited experiments in deregulation ? |
| 9 | This matter of cellulose breakdown is of vital importance to the whole question of the nutrition of the living cells , for it has been shown by experiment that raw cellulose can be injurious to plants as it is indigestible to animals , and in both the soil and the digestive tract of herbivora , cellulose decomposition is largely performed by fungi . |
| 10 | As Antonio Gramsci pointed out , the movement of 1848 failed because of the scanty bourgeois concentration in Germany , and also because the question of the renewal of the state was intertwined with the reaction to the national question . |
| 11 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 12 | Reference has , of course , already been made to the fetva given by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi sanctioning the execution of Seyh Bedreddin In Mehmed I 's reign : with respect to the general question of the nature of in the early state , it is worth remarking that no clue is given as to why Burhaneddin was selected beyond the fact that " he was at the side of Sultan Mehmed " in Serez when Seyh Bedreddin was brought . |
| 13 | ‘ With respect to the next question , whether a woman , upon whom a rape hath been committed can become pregnant ? |
| 14 | This ratio gives investors a common yardstick to measure the attitude of the market as a whole to all companies regardless of size or industry by reducing the comparison to the simple question ‘ How much is the market willing to pay for a unit of earnings ? ’ . |
| 15 | It has never been contended that non-certifiable grounds of appeal considered and dismissed by the Court of Appeal can , in addition to the certified question , be argued before the House of Lords . |
| 16 | Labour 's Alan Milburn , in response to the first question , pledged to restore benefits for 16 and 17-year-olds unable to find work . |
| 17 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 18 | Fewer do this in response to the next question , presumably because it is not so obvious an effect unless the required figures are being directly pointed at . |
| 19 | When in response to the last question the reply is ‘ sixty ’ the leader grabs hold of the five pound note and says ‘ There we are ’ . |
| 20 | The common claim made for classical secular literature in response to the analytical question cui parte philosophiae supponitur ? , " to what branch of philosophy does it pertain ? " , is ethice supponitur , " it pertains to ethics " , and the reason : " because it treats of human behaviour " . |
| 21 | In their Lordships ' view the Court of Appeal failed to give proper consideration to the fundamental question of what were the operations of the taxpayer which produced the relevant profit . |
| 22 | But Mr Premadasa 's approach to the Tamil question is less likely to be followed . |
| 23 | Within this ambiguity and unclarity , Shallis sees room for an entirely different approach to the whole question of time . |
| 24 | It was symptomatic of the British approach to the whole question that at the time the Act took effect no one knew , even to an approximation , how many data users were going to be required to register . |
| 25 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 26 | It is not the purpose of this chapter to explore all the ramifications of the debate on the ‘ arms economy ’ , rather I want to focus upon Bukharin 's ideas in relation to the main question , that is , unproductive consumption and the conditions for equilibrium . |
| 27 | The difficulty here is often that it is not clear whether the problem is meant to bear a relation to the book-work question or not . |
| 28 | But the Basle convention fails to offer a watertight answer to the awkward question : which waste is hazardous ? |
| 29 | That is the answer to the specific question that was put . |
| 30 | And — in answer to the second question — the only reason that oxygen gas exists in such large amounts in the atmosphere today is that plants and some bacteria produce it in vast quantities through photosynthesis . |