Example sentences of "[art] question as " in BNC.

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1 When a choreographer wishes to make a statement about dance that is inspired by a piece of music , he has to answer the question as to what style of dance is appropriate .
2 I thought of the question as rhetorical , but his reply was ‘ Yes ’ .
3 Conservatism is a polemic against Conservatism and more particularly Thatcherism , but Honderich 's own work raises the question as to whether the two are related .
4 Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies .
5 While Stone struggles to keep open the question as to whether more divorce produces an increase in the sum of human happiness , he is obviously uneasy about the way in which divorce has become a routine and largely administrative process .
6 It lodged in my mind to try and answer the question as to whether there was something special about the depiction of angels in post-conquest art , and if so , what it could be .
7 ‘ It is leap year and I lost no time in popping the question as I think he is the right man to lead Claro and Grindlewood Park into the twenty-first century . ’
8 Stinging , biting , their incessant attentions to warm-blooded creatures always raised the question as to their purpose — as if man 's comfort were at the heart of the purpose of creation .
9 Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) .
10 In posing the question as to whether there is some consistent direction from lower to higher states of biological organization , Hobhouse concluded that the one consistent change of this type lies in the growth of mind .
11 There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients !
12 This presented a delicate problem , another of the house guests being also without his valet , raising the question as to which guest should be allocated the butler as valet and who the footman .
13 The question as to whether time could conceivably exist if there were no ‘ soul , ( or mind ) to apprehend it had been raised , but not answered , by Aristotle , whose definition of time as the ‘ numbering ’ of motion and change in relation to before and after appeared to presuppose the existence of a ‘ soul ’ that contemplates and measures it .
14 The question as to what is involved in the marriage relationship deserves a study in itself .
15 It is however a controversial project because of the cost of its electricity and the question as to whether it is needed at the present time despite electricity being the main growth area in the Brazilian energy demand picture .
16 To assess whether this is an accurate picture it is necessary to address the question as to whether crime itself is predominantly working-class .
17 The mixing of geographical information from different map scales and sources is a key aspect of GIS functionality , but it does raise the question as to what effects the combination of different levels of data uncertainty has on both the output maps and on the data derived from spatial query and analysis .
18 Leaving aside the question as to whether the State and reformers were successful in affecting young people , the process itself was instrumental in creating a new image for youth , one which in common with so many of its other images , emphasized incapacity while seeking to deepen its dependence on the appropriate agencies .
19 Marx posed the question as follows :
20 The question as to what is , or can be considered to be , productive and unproductive labour , and productive and unproductive consumption , has been the subject of hot debate , going back to Adam Smith and beyond .
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 In the case of Irish union the pre-existing parliaments are nowhere expressly abolished ; on the other hand , it is nowhere stated , or implied of necessity , in any of the union legislation , that one of the pre-existing parliaments was continued under a new style and , indeed , if this view were to be adopted , one is left with the question as to which of the two pre-existing parliaments it is which has survived .
23 Leaving aside the question of the importance of small firms for innovation and job creation , there is also the question as to whether the new technology contains a tendency to reduce or increase the size of firms or establishments .
24 The social scientist charged with monitoring and evaluating the project ( Goodman 1979 ) refused to answer the question as to whether or not the experiment had been a success , asserting that this was the wrong question .
25 This raises the question as to whether the genuineness of the Church should be judged by its effectiveness in achieving growth .
26 To illustrate the problem let us pose the question as to who are members of the Anglican Church in England .
27 I pondered also on the question as to why it matters so much to most of us what on earth ( literally ) happens to human remains ?
28 Leaving aside the question as to which Berkeley meant , let us consider the alternatives .
29 Their suggestions often begged the question as to who would actually implement the necessary corporate revolutions which they recommended .
30 This prompts the question as to whether young females lay down less fat in species showing reversed size dimorphism .
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