BASIC QUESTION collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of basic and question
basic
adjective
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/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
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/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
question
noun
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/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
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/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
Examples of basic question
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Research on this basic question is ongoing and far from settled.
The answer to that basic question is not at all obvious.
In so doing, however, it raises a basic question provoked by all such studies.
A basic question is how to explicitly construct such a chain of approximations.
The basic question is to discover the ways in which such lines are grouped.
There were simple logistical difficulties, including the basic question of which languages should be taught.
The basic question with which we are dealing is whether a physical body is a continuum.
The basic question addressed by these early experiments was derived from the individualistic social ontology of crowd psychology.
A more basic question seems implicit in his: has there ever been a project when this was not the case?
Perhaps an even more basic question is this: should we even incorporate their views in our archaeology?
We have addressed a simple but basic question: which matters most, in an election, the issues or the economy?
A very basic question concerns the boundary between generalised predicates and syntactic combinations of verbs and dependents.
The basic question that underlies this paper is, therefore, how do unlinked particles flock together to produce this stable structure?
Having fixed the choice of category, and thus the interpretation of types, the basic question is then: which functors?
The basic question is what is more important "seeing" the yo-yo motion or "feeling" the string forces.
First, there is a basic question of what the underlying nature of the scale is considered to be.
The answer to this basic question has implications for linguistics, education, developmental psychology, and the general cognitive sciences.
The basic question lies in the choice of the socio-educational paradigm on which the educational programme is constructed.
That is a basic question.
The basic question is this.
That was his basic question.
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