Example sentences of "[conj] in answer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also , together with other non-copyright or RBG-copyright illustrations , could form the basis for a marketable service , providing clients with colour-printed copies for publications , designs or in answer to enquiries . |
| 2 | For example , a 1982 opinion poll in the UK found that in answer to the question ‘ What is most valued as a contribution to the quality of life ? ’ , the percentage wanting ‘ safe streets ’ was 72 compared to 53 for ‘ attractive countryside ’ , 51 for ‘ unpolluted atmosphere ’ and 46 for ‘ good public transport ’ and only 37 for ‘ access to a car ’ . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 4 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 5 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 6 | as if in answer to their prayers , the people of Zafferana Etnea were accorded a moment of respite yesterday . |
| 7 | And then , just as if in answer to her private thought , the pilot went on : ‘ I 'd like to kiss each one of you before I go , but as I ca n't very well do that I 'll give your Brown Owl a big thank-you kiss for you all ! ’ |
| 8 | as if in answer to his question , they heard the grenade explode ; the water around it spasmed , sending a central jet erupting skywards to be almost instantly swept away by the wind . |
| 9 | She must have been upstairs because almost as if in answer to him we heard her heavy tread on the stairs . |
| 10 | No scene , perhaps , in The Lord of the Rings is more moving or more suggestive than the one in which Sam and Frodo , in Mordor , see the wind changing and the darkness driven back , and then as if in answer to prayer come upon a trickle of water : ‘ ill-fated ’ and ‘ fruitless ’ in appearance , but at that moment seemingly a message from the world outside , beyond the Shadow . |
| 11 | as if in answer to unspoken thoughts , the boy broke in . |
| 12 | as if in answer to this prayer one further Pathfinders production was launched in 1961- the most ambitious to date , Pathfinders to Venus . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm fine , ’ he said , as if in answer to something she had said , his hand squeezing both of hers . |
| 14 | as if in answer to her wish she heard a heavy , masculine tread on the uncarpeted stairs outside her door . |
| 15 | as if in answer to her thoughts , The Times helped her next morning . |
| 16 | Adam must be around somewhere — if she could just find him and have a quick word before her part in the proceedings began — as if in answer to her prayers , a small group of business-suited men began to disperse , and the figure of a fair-haired man came into view . |
| 17 | as if in answer to his doubts , from out of the birch-trees came Mr Malik , at the head of a line of boys . |
| 18 | ‘ They brought some other poor sod in , ’ he said , as if in answer to my question , ‘ but I was over behind the door and they did n't see me . |
| 19 | She sat holding her husband 's hand and gave a brief nod as if in answer to his unspoken question , then when he cleared his throat awkwardly she patted his hand and spoke for him . |
| 20 | Finally , and in answer to the third question , Devlin is critical of the apparent necessity , according to Wolfenden , for special circumstances to exist in order to justify the intervention of the law . |
| 21 | I would allow this appeal and in answer to the first question raised by the preliminary point of law declare that the council can not maintain an action for libel for any words which reflect upon it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund . |
| 22 | The appointment was defended by the Interior Minister , Guillermo Capobianco Rivera , who stressed Rico Toro 's military professionalism , and in answer to questions from the press President Jaime Paz Zamora stated that " the government knows what it is doing " . |
| 23 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 24 | i think we all have to accept now that the only team in a position to catch the scum are Battyburn and in answer to Rodgers question I personally would like to see us lose the game 4/5–0 , this will at least allow someone to close the gap on them . |
| 25 | i think we all have to accept now that the only team in a position to catch the scum are Battyburn and in answer to Rodgers question I personally would like to see us lose the game 4/5–0 , this will at least allow someone to close the gap on them . |
| 26 | I would like to say in general Mr I think that as a Committee we should welcome this report which does , it really does er has done a very thorough job and ha a a and provides us now with a s understandable framework and and time scale work when you 've got target and when brought forward or shown to any member of the complex that that erm I think provisionally with the backlog of what is now ready to tackle the result onto our and commissioner is grant er , er grant , erm there will be , it will be like an enormous benefits not just in those areas that John has taken us to but in general atmosphere which kind of be very tense and competition and I think we 'll be , be seeing the action in this token er within it will be er target time , erm real pro real progress will be this I think the feeling of that will going , come by will , will , will be a lot of ruling er in this area and maybe even start to er leave the question from er as a result and the signal to the users of our serv , of the services and erm would go out of here in a planned way and in answer to er fairly speedily and you know what or reduce the erm the aggro . |
| 27 | He says he 's tried guinea pig and dummy rabbit but there 's been no response and in answer to question says he hopesto she 'll break the diet tonight . |
| 28 | But in answer to your question , yes . |
| 29 | But in answer to your highly impertinent question — no , I most certainly have not ever taken drugs , and never will . ’ |
| 30 | But in answer to Dickie.Bamber Gascoigne said he could n't comment until he knows what any company wanting the programme back on board might be proposing . |