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

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1 Less a question than a statement .
2 So the question whether a Bill of Rights should be adopted in the United Kingdom is relevant to the issue of citizenship .
3 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 .
4 ‘ 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 ( 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) ) .
7 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 .
8 The question whether a landlord can peaceably re-enter is not clear ; it would be prudent to apply for leave .
9 The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury .
10 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 ?
11 Suppose the lawmakers in England and in Scotland have determined differently the question whether a man is entitled to whatever another has gratuitously promised .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 At the centre of this argument is the question whether a Parliament should have the right to be responsible for revenue .
17 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 :
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Attached to that report , were inter alia the following items — ( 1 ) an internal report dated 18 September 1990 prepared by Norwich Union in connection with the question whether a Mr. Victor Tee — the holder of 51 per cent .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The question whether a Regulation that expressly gave the power to tax would itself be ultra vires DORA was not decided .
24 The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara .
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