Example sentences of "it [vb -s] the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last example of a conclusion is lengthy but notice how it confronts the question . |
| 2 | In the light of such a polemic stand , it begs the question whether the revelation of how crime figures are manipulated by the police to sustain institutional beliefs ( see Chapter 5 ) could be said to undermine democracy or be classified as sedition . |
| 3 | But besides the inconvenience to the long-suffering paying customer — and Liverpool 's have suffered more than any from TV whim — it begs the question of whether the tail is wagging the dog . |
| 4 | The obvious inadequacy of this explanation is that it begs the question of why exposure to a stimulus should allow the acquisition of a new response — we usually suppose only that existing unconditioned responses ( URs ) will habituate . |
| 5 | Equally , however , if they are essentially operating as traditional institutions and if it does succeed as a multi-purpose agency , it begs the question whether UDCs were necessary in the first place . |
| 6 | But it is a red herring because it begs the question : What does he believe ? |
| 7 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 8 | However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way . |
| 9 | Using ‘ natural ’ units of behaviour is not without its problems as it begs the question as to what constitutes ‘ natural ’ as well as sidestepping the issue of why particular parts of the nervous system are important for particular behaviours . |
| 10 | And it begs the question on whose authority the nursing home place was accepted and at the price asked . |
| 11 | It begs the question . |
| 12 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 13 | We accept motion three four three with some qualifications as it begs the question actually how do we refine anti-trade union laws ? |
| 14 | It begs the question : ‘ Why should I be |
| 15 | There is insufficient evidence to include the Newton St. Loe pavement within this group ; it begs the question , therefore , to describe it as the example upon which subsequent pavements were based . |
| 16 | ( pp503-4 ) The problem with this approach is that it begs the question concerning the nature of identification in unascertained future goods . |
| 17 | It begs the question however ; when 's he going to do it at Windsor Park ? |
| 18 | Even if all informed people could agree concerning what animal welfare is , and how well various animals are faring — and these are large assumptions — the animal welfarist 's position would remain controversial because of how it answers the question ‘ What may be done in the name of , or in pursuit of , animal welfare ? ’ |
| 19 | It answers the question , ‘ Who looks after whom ? ’ |
| 20 | In other words , by asking about each how it answers the question — ‘ do girls fail , or do we fail them ? ’ |
| 21 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 22 | ‘ It raises the question of internal control and we would expect a bank facing this difficulty to inform us right away , ’ said an official . |
| 23 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 24 | This is the presence in the north-west corner of an impressive shrine or nymphaeum and it raises the question of the possibility of the supply to a fountain in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It may be that the sin-offering deals with infringements of God 's laws , whereas the guilt-offering , since it raises the question of compensation , deals with situations where human injury is involved . |
| 27 | Now that Shankly and Stein and many like them have gone , it raises the question of whether McIlvanney 's world of sport , embracing values and heroes who genuinely stood for something , faces inevitable decay in these vainglorious and calculating times . |
| 28 | Un unfortunately it raises the question of the project coordinator whose role |
| 29 | On the second , it raises the questions : What makes for viability in contemporary urban life ? |
| 30 | Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . |