Example sentences of "of [noun sg] to questions [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As often happens , this younger generation of ‘ Tractarians ’ who were leading the crusade on the side of ‘ collectivism ’ joined forces with the older generation like J. A. Macfadyen who had remained Calvinist in their views and ‘ deplored the modern nondenominational spirit , the temper of indifference to questions of church order ’ , the spirit which saw local churches as ‘ mere voluntary associations for religious purposes , with power to determine their own polity and prescribe their own sphere of action ’ . |
| 2 | This view of prose narrative is rather different from the one implied in the Anglo-American tradition which , in its reading of fiction has systematically subordinated questions of ryuzhet to questions of realism . |
| 3 | Discussion turned from the question of principle to questions of practice : how change was to be effected and what post-emancipation society was to look like . |
| 4 | The only real answer she provides is the joke-capping session itself , which then forms the topic of the rest of the chapter ; but more could be said , for example , on the functions of joke-telling ( for breaking down taboos , reassuring , releasing tension , passing the time , indirect criticising , etc ) ; and on the relation of joke-telling to questions of " power " and " solidarity " . |
| 5 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |