Example sentences of "be a question [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 2 | In any case , it must have been a question of degree . |
| 3 | It had been a question of time , a race between life and food . |
| 4 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 5 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 6 | Nor , for that matter , can family life be a question of chic . |
| 7 | Clasper was becoming more isolated , with his dwindling support coming from a small core of left-wingers who considered the fight to be a question of principle , namely union solidarity against management . |
| 8 | To resolve such attitudes , in the end it has to be a question of transformation . |
| 9 | It should not be a question of making do with what we have but a question of what we should have . |
| 10 | It may be a question of compromise between the landlord and the tenant but a general qualification is suggested as an initial amendment . |
| 11 | ‘ to the annoyance of the residents ( or passengers ) ’ 'Annoyance' would seem to be a question of degree for the court to decide . |
| 12 | Lord Tucker observed : ‘ I do not question that such a drastic step [ closure of the factory ] … may be required on the part of a reasonably prudent employer if the peril to his employees is sufficiently grave , and to this extent it must always be a question of degree , but , in my view , there was no evidence in the present case which could justify a finding of negligence for failure on the part of the respondents to take this step . ’ |
| 13 | What is or is not " in the neighbourhood " of the premises must be a question of degree and of circumstances in each case . |
| 14 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
| 15 | If it is alleged that the tribunal has reached a wrong decision then there can be a question of law but only of a limited character . |
| 16 | Whether any particular part of that evidence was of assistance had to be a question of fact . |
| 17 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the person is a lawful visitor and has been invited to the premises . |
| 18 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the visitor has voluntarily or willingly accepted the risk as his or her own . |
| 19 | Whether in any particular case the person who exerts the undue influence is the agent ( in this sense ) of the principal creditor must be a question of fact . |
| 20 | In Read v. Lyons , Lord Porter commented that ‘ non-natural user seems to be a question of fact … and in deciding this question I think that all the circumstances of time and practice of mankind must be taken into consideration so that what may be regarded as dangerous or non-natural may vary according to the circumstances . ’ |
| 21 | Conversely where a statutory term is open to a spectrum of reasonable interpretations then it must be a question of fact . |
| 22 | Where a qualification is also held in a foreign jurisdiction it will be a question of fact as to the capacity in which the practice is carried on . |
| 23 | However , whether or not previous trading is sufficient to establish a course of dealing will be a question of fact , and will almost always lead to a dispute as to whether or not the terms were incorporated . |
| 24 | The status of such communications will be a question of fact depending on all the facts of the case . |
| 25 | Whether an international organisation has personality vis a vis third States may be a question of acceptance and recognition by those States , these requirements being a necessary safeguard for them . |
| 26 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 27 | The length of the rent free period will be a question of negotiation between the landlord and the tenant and should be settled prior to the drafting of the lease documentation . |
| 28 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 29 | He submitted that , if a national court is considering whether to grant an interlocutory injunction in a case such as the present , where the validity of the law sought to be enforced is challenged by the defendant on the ground that it is inconsistent with Community law , the question whether the court should require an undertaking in damages from the plaintiff as a condition of the grant of an injunction is to be decided on the principles applicable to that question under the national law , being a question of procedure which , on established principles of Community law , is left to the national law . |
| 30 | We have already seen that when the courts deem a statutory term to be jurisdictional , whether it be a question of law or fact , they will substitute their view as to the meaning of the term for that of the decision-maker . |