Example sentences of "question [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raises the question of whether exposure to higher oestradiol levels may contribute to more rapid development of disease in younger women . |
| 2 | Although the overall size of households may not have altered dramatically , this still leaves open the question of whether household composition has changed . |
| 3 | Both these examples raise issues other than the question of whether support is one-way , but they do indicate that there certainly have been historical circumstances in which people have felt that the requirement to provide financial support to parents , in circumstances where they were apparently unable to reciprocate , went well beyond their normal expectations of support between kin . |
| 4 | One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management . |
| 5 | Leaving aside for now the question of whether independence is appropriate as the ultimate goal for us all , it is important to recognise the inherent difficulty and contradiction in trying to achieve or work towards independence through a teacher/pupil relationship which remains essentially a dependent one . |
| 6 | and , since licensed premises are in use during the hours of darkness , the question of whether emergency lighting should be provided . |
| 7 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 8 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 9 | The question of whether inflation would result from demand management was not seriously tackled . |
| 10 | Answer guide : The issues brought out here are the question of whether cost or value is to be included and whether the fact that the asset was acquired prior to opening the shop is relevant . |
| 11 | The question of whether service jobs are real jobs or whether only manufacturing jobs create wealth and so are the only real jobs was again posed and it was agreed that it was wrong to define wealth-producing as only having got to do with manufacturing and producing profit . |
| 12 | This immediately raised the question of whether documentary realism is therefore inherently more political than fiction or avant-garde cinema — a useless question as it turned out . |
| 13 | Then one can address the question of whether rape should be confined to cases where submission arises from a threat or fear of violence , or whether it should be phrased more widely . |
| 14 | We shall return to the question of whether GNP is in fact a good indicator of well-being later , and consider a newer approach which examines the extent to which the basic human needs of citizens are being met . |
| 15 | The interesting question of whether publication by or caused by the confidant affects the existence of the confidence was discussed in Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 . |
| 16 | With Labour promising to revive the bill if they are elected , opposition to bloodsports being Liberal Democrat policy and the likelihood of a hung Parliament , it is no longer a question of whether hunting will be banned but when . |
| 17 | This raises the question of whether octreotide increases sphincter of Oddi pressure , rendering ductal cannulation more difficult . |
| 18 | But answering the question of whether abuse has taken place takes time and the involvement of many people other than doctors . |
| 19 | Clearly , the question of whether Plate Tectonics has developed on Venus is of considerable interest . |
| 20 | In the second case , Francome v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 408 , the Court of Appeal held that there was a serious issue to be tried on the question of whether information obtained by illegal tapping by private individuals was subject to confidentiality . |
| 21 | Four fences out , Llewellyn made his move , and from the next it was merely a question of whether Party Politics could hold on or whether Romany King could peg him back . |
| 22 | One final area which requires some discussion is the question of whether advertising has its effects in the short or long term . |
| 23 | While there were , therefore , good grounds for pessimism about future progress , the question of whether integration could proceed beyond a limited sectoral level was answered three years later by the Treaty of Rome . |
| 24 | But a combination of the characteristic features of American parties today raises the serious question of whether analysis of American politics from the perspective of a party system or party government is at all helpful . |
| 25 | According to s31(10) where the question of whether harm suffered by a child is significant turns on his health or development , this must be compared with the standard of health or development which could reasonably be expected of a similar child ( s31(10) ) . |
| 26 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 27 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 28 | At the heart of the row is the question of whether pay-TV should be introduced to generate immediate cash to finance the cabling network . |
| 29 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 30 | Indeed , the aim of the article is to raise the question of whether consent is a proper conceptual tool for the analysis of medical-legal problems , by considering its use and usefulness in one particular area . |