The more basic the question, the less the role of the state.

My staff and I can often answer basic questions by phone.

Perhaps as a result, even the most basic questions were not asked.

And only a child will think of the basic questions.

The basic question is, To what use can such a book be put?

Which left her one very basic question: did she want him?

The simple answer to the basic question would do for a start.

This is my answer to the very basic question which was asked.

There are some questions so basic that they can have no answer.

There was, really, only the one basic question that held the key to the whole thing.