Example sentences of "question [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions .
2 Less a question than a statement .
3 For a long while , the crime question provided the principal means to underscore the cultural concerns of this new nationalist racism .
4 ‘ the rule is that no one is bound to answer any question if the answer thereto would , in the opinion of the judge , have a tendency to expose the deponent to any criminal charge , penalty , or forfeiture which the judge regards as reasonably likely to be preferred or sued for .
5 These applications are not regarded as a mere formality by most courts which may require the originating application to state the grounds in proper detail , for example that the lessor may require to occupy at the expiration of the lease ; that the premises are temporarily surplus to the needs of the lessor ; that the lessee has indicated that he only requires the premises for a limited period ; that there is to be development at the expiration of the term ; that the lessor is only prepared to grant if the section is excluded ; that exclusion of the section has been taken into consideration in negotiations for the rent , or possibly that the premises form part of other premises which brings the provisions of management of the whole into question if the section is not excluded .
6 For example the question ‘ Would you like to become a doctor and work in a hospital ? ’ is a double question because the respondent might like to become a doctor , but not work in a hospital .
7 However , this remains an open question since the research needs to be replicated for a considerably increased range of countries .
8 A lot might seem to hang upon this question since the term is highly emotive — suffering is an unpleasant experience , to be avoided at all costs .
9 So the question whether a Bill of Rights should be adopted in the United Kingdom is relevant to the issue of citizenship .
10 Again , it is not easy to be dogmatic in answer to the question whether a court is exercising a judicial function when it entertains a reference from the Attorney-General as to what the law is on a particular point .
11 ‘ If so ’ , he continues , ‘ the question whether a person is ‘ male ’ or ‘ female ’ is not to be resolved ( as it was in the Corbett case ) solely by reference to rigid tests of biological sexuality . ’
12 But it raises the question whether a celebration of the sciences might have been one means of differentiating Protestant cultural values from those of Roman Catholicism .
13 ( c ) Connected company A company is connected with the settlement if it falls within TA 1988 , s681(5). ( d ) " Capital sum " The expression " capital sum " has the same meaning as that given in s677 and any question whether a capital sum has been paid to the settlor by a body corporate or to a body corporate by the trustees shall be determined in the same way as any question under that section whether a capital sum has been paid to the settlor by the trustees ( s678(5) ) .
14 I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) for raising with you , Madam Deputy Speaker , the question whether a Government statement can be made later tonight .
15 The question whether a landlord can peaceably re-enter is not clear ; it would be prudent to apply for leave .
16 The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury .
17 The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ?
18 Suppose the lawmakers in England and in Scotland have determined differently the question whether a man is entitled to whatever another has gratuitously promised .
19 To the question whether a man , who has intercourse with a woman believing that she is consenting to it , though she is not , commits rape , I think that he [ the ordinary man ] would reply , ‘ No .
20 The question whether a capacity for error reflects our divine intelligence or is , as the theologians would have us believe , an invention of the flesh and the Devil is by no means a trivial issue of medieval scholasticism .
21 I write in reply to Difficult Decision December Post Bag which posed the question whether a Border Collie could cope with a front leg amputation .
22 This may be so , but in the light of the difficulties inherent in the decision , the very clear decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 and the equally clear statement in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 that the question whether a contract is void or only voidable is irrelevant , I have been unable to reach any other conclusion .
23 At the centre of this argument is the question whether a Parliament should have the right to be responsible for revenue .
24 Earlier , Savary had responded to the question whether a shipment by the owner of the vessel still required a charter party and bill of lading issuance by stating :
25 For the question whether a property is present here can never be different from or lie beyond the question whether we have the best possible evidence that it is present .
26 Omitting the reference to property this decision was extended to manslaughter involving cars in Seymour though the Crown wished to reserve the question whether a risk to property was sufficient : on the facts it was not relevant .
27 Resolution of the question whether a statement is a representation or a contractual term , does not resolve the issue as to the legal effect of the statement made between the parties .
28 In a problem on criminal law , make no statement as to the law of tort , unless of course the question whether a crime has been committed involves a question of tort .
29 The question whether a Regulation that expressly gave the power to tax would itself be ultra vires DORA was not decided .
30 In paragraph 8(b) of his affidavit the coroner states that a verdict of natural causes aggravated by lack of care is relevant only if an inquest is held and that here he was concerned with the antecedent question whether an inquest should be held at all .
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