31.   A more basic question is what relevance any of this has.

32.   A more basic question than whether the program runs afoul of the Constitution is whether it works.

33.   A. I suppose my basic question is why you have determined to hold only one fund?

34.   Bush feels comfortable asking her the most basic questions, like the location of a country.

35.   But before those problems can be approached, he and other specialists said, basic questions about Albania and the ethnic Albanians elsewhere in the region must be answered.

36.   But Clinton v. Jones poses some weighty constitutional issues, including the basic question of whether the president can stand above the law.

37.   But during the two hours of oral arguments, the justices kept pulling the attorneys back to a more basic question of timing.

38.   But basic questions remain, to judge from reactions here.

39.   But he conceded that several basic questions remained unanswered.

40.   But even with inventive solutions, the basic question remains.