Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIKE Shakespearean scholars after a spell at Harvard Business School , the managers of the world 's best-known branded products have long pondered the question : what 's in a name ? |
| 2 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 3 | Given the question of how to manoeuvre in the dark , what solutions might an engineer consider ? |
| 4 | We have examined the question whether it is feasible to test the efficiency arguments by econometric means . |
| 5 | ‘ Me lord Buckingham ? ’ enquired Forest — but the constable seemed not to have heard the question . |
| 6 | He had not heard the question but hoped that this reply would serve . |
| 7 | Her husband nodded and smiled , but whether he had heard the question or not , who could say . |
| 8 | There is a third point of view : that of weary or wilful ignorance , which has since banished the question almost entirely from intellectual discussion among ordinary , concerned people . |
| 9 | Sir Geoffrey Howe has treated the question of sovereignty at some length . |
| 10 | Nothing more complicated or obtuse ; just that , Ajayi thought it was a joke , but so far all the castle 's inhabitants , all the attendants and waiters , one or two other subsidiary characters they had discovered , the seneschal himself , and even the ever-facetious rooks and crows which infested the decaying upper storeys had treated the question with extreme seriousness . |
| 11 | The most intense , at times even bitter , debates have surrounded the question of Soviet aid to the Republic — its political and , therefore , military cost . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom 's negotiators must alter the attitude with which they have approached the question of integration to date : considering as ‘ victories ’ what are at best delays in the advance of Federalism , and being willing , at the last , to go along with any formula of political union as an alternative to being ‘ relegated ’ to an ‘ outer tier ’ of the EEC . |
| 13 | I 've forgotten the question . |
| 14 | She glared at him in mock severity , glad that he had let the question drop . |
| 15 | He talked freely about quite a number of subjects , but had not once broached the question of being sent ashore . |
| 16 | Yet the post-Seebohm decades have not resolved the question of how best to set about it or what , quintessentially , should be the role of social workers within it ( Webb and Wistow , 1987 ; Pinker , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | Yesterday Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , announced in a Commons written reply to Mr Neil Hamilton ( C. Tatton ) that Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , had ‘ considered the question of the Three Graces very carefully following a request from the Office of Arts and Libraries for a view as to whether the statue was included in the listing of Woburn Abbey ’ . |
| 18 | The first paragraph reads — ‘ The Sub Committee have fully considered the question of the formation of the Club and are anxious to devise a scheme by which eventually the Links may become the absolute property of the Members of the Golf Club . |
| 19 | The Remuneration Committee comprising all the Non-Executive Directors ( ‘ the Committee ’ ) has considered the question and concluded that it would now be in the best interests of the Company and its employees to bring forward proposals for such a scheme and an appropriate resolution is set out as Resolution 11 . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the Policy Advisory Committee have recently considered the question of homosexuality , there appears to be little possibility of change in the conditions of lawful homosexual conduct . |
| 21 | Recent social and feminist historians who have considered the question have bid for explanation on the back of contemporary allegiances . |
| 22 | But we have n't got there yet , and to give the answer before we 've really considered the question is probably the wrong way round . |
| 23 | In many cases the statute will be silent on the question and the search for Parliamentary intention will be illusory as Parliament never considered the question . |
| 24 | We have just considered the question from the point of view of mechanism : how does it work ? |
| 25 | He had pursued the question when he was in Rome ( in 1098 or 1100 ) , and had spoken to Urban II on the subject . |
| 26 | But H&C has never really addressed the question of why these diverse businesses should be together . |
| 27 | However , the conclusions of these writers may be open to certain lines of criticism , and some writers who have addressed the question of nuclear weapons and the laws of war have reached conclusions which are significantly different in important respects . |
| 28 | First off , the company has addressed the question of performance . |
| 29 | Not all radical campesino and rural workers ' unions have specifically addressed the question of women 's rights or even equal pay , but there is a growing recognition of the need to do so . |
| 30 | In the second volume of his Principles of Geology , Lyell had addressed the question of geographical distribution as a means of challenging the catastrophists ' notion of mass extinctions . |