basic question

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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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Examples of basic question

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Research on this basicquestion is ongoing and far from settled.
The answer to that basicquestion is not at all obvious.
In so doing, however, it raises a basicquestion provoked by all such studies.
A basicquestion is how to explicitly construct such a chain of approximations.
The basicquestion is to discover the ways in which such lines are grouped.
There were simple logistical difficulties, including the basicquestion of which languages should be taught.
The basicquestion with which we are dealing is whether a physical body is a continuum.
The basicquestion addressed by these early experiments was derived from the individualistic social ontology of crowd psychology.
A more basicquestion seems implicit in his: has there ever been a project when this was not the case?
Perhaps an even more basicquestion is this: should we even incorporate their views in our archaeology?
We have addressed a simple but basicquestion: which matters most, in an election, the issues or the economy?
A very basicquestion concerns the boundary between generalised predicates and syntactic combinations of verbs and dependents.
The basicquestion 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 basicquestion is then: which functors?
The basicquestion is what is more important "seeing" the yo-yo motion or "feeling" the string forces.
First, there is a basicquestion of what the underlying nature of the scale is considered to be.
The answer to this basicquestion has implications for linguistics, education, developmental psychology, and the general cognitive sciences.
The basicquestion lies in the choice of the socio-educational paradigm on which the educational programme is constructed.
That is a basicquestion.
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The basicquestion is this.
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That was his basicquestion.
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It is a basicquestion.
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