basic question

collocation in English

meaningsofbasicandquestion

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basic
adjective
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofbasicandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbasic question

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Research on thisbasicquestionis ongoing and far from settled.
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The answer to thatbasicquestionis not at all obvious.
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In so doing, however, it raises abasicquestionprovoked by all such studies.
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Abasicquestionis how to explicitly construct such a chain of approximations.
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Thebasicquestionis to discover the ways in which such lines are grouped.
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There were simple logistical difficulties, including thebasicquestionof which languages should be taught.
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Thebasicquestionwith which we are dealing is whether a physical body is a continuum.
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Thebasicquestionaddressed by these early experiments was derived from the individualistic social ontology of crowd psychology.
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A morebasicquestionseems implicit in his: has there ever been a project when this was not the case?
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Perhaps an even morebasicquestionis this: should we even incorporate their views in our archaeology?
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We have addressed a simple butbasicquestion: which matters most, in an election, the issues or the economy?
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A verybasicquestionconcerns the boundary between generalised predicates and syntactic combinations of verbs and dependents.
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Thebasicquestionthat underlies this paper is, therefore, how do unlinked particles flock together to produce this stable structure?
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Having fixed the choice of category, and thus the interpretation of types, thebasicquestionis then: which functors?
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Thebasicquestionis what is more important "seeing" the yo-yo motion or "feeling" the string forces.
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First, there is abasicquestionof what the underlying nature of the scale is considered to be.
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The answer to thisbasicquestionhas implications for linguistics, education, developmental psychology, and the general cognitive sciences.
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Thebasicquestionlies in the choice of the socio-educational paradigm on which the educational programme is constructed.
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That is abasicquestion.
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Thebasicquestionis this.
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That was hisbasicquestion.
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It is abasicquestion.
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