Example sentences of "answer to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because governments in the Middle East have a habit of declaring holy war at the drop of a hat , their people have learnt to give cautious answers to the call to arms . |
| 2 | All these advantages for the employer , together with the incapacity of isolated workers to mount opposition to exploitation , are the perfect answers to the call to streamline production . |
| 3 | Here are four possible answers to the sentence : ‘ The window is open . ’ |
| 4 | In question-answering systems the computer generates answers to the user 's query based on stored information . |
| 5 | We use the words ‘ give us this day our daily bread ’ , and seldom say ‘ thank you ’ for the ways that we see answers to the prayer . |
| 6 | Many European governments , such as France and the United Kingdom , failed either to provide adequate answers to the public 's urgent questions or to introduce precautionary measures quickly enough . |
| 7 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 8 | A branch of mathematics called network analysis has developed to provide the answers to the type of problem just cited , and network analysis algorithms are incorporated into comprehensive Geographical Information Systems as well as being available for stand-alone PCs . |
| 9 | I do n't know the answers to the problem . |
| 10 | So we now have two possible answers to the problem of how we recognize a stretch of language as unified and meaningful . |
| 11 | They are communal answers to the problem of human survival , a problem which requires collective solutions because , in the final resort , individuals can not ensure the reproduction of the species even if they can , for a finite period , ensure their own . |
| 12 | It is a pleasure to speak in the debate , although it is a little depressing that some hon. Members should despair of finding any real answers to the problem . |
| 13 | If the file is stored on disk , however , there are possible answers to the problem . |
| 14 | Zuwaya usually gave one of three short answers to the question , What is that man 's occupation ? |
| 15 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 16 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 17 | However , scientific explanations are a very particular subset of answers to the question ‘ why ? ’ . |
| 18 | All that we ask is that it provides public answers to the question most people in this country are asking . |
| 19 | They are born under the ancient Chinese curse , ‘ May you live in an interesting time ’ , a time in which values , lifestyles , relationships , employment are up for grabs , and in which traditional answers to the question ‘ How to live ? ’ are weak and conflicting . |
| 20 | These criteria represent answers to the question of personal responsibility , but , in another sense , they provide no answer at all , for they conflict with each other by drawing the boundaries of responsibility in a series of concentric circles . |
| 21 | These are capable of being subject to interpretation and identification , and also provide answers to the question of ‘ when ’ by examining sequences and dates . |
| 22 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 23 | Answers to the question ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ are not evenly distributed between the two class groups , as Table 4.2 shows . |
| 24 | It would not be in order to list fully here Bernstein 's distinctions between the two codes ; however , one of these distinctions is of direct relevance to the question of social class differences in answers to the question ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ |
| 25 | If we think of natural and explicit answers to the question of what caused something , what we come to are items like the weight of a thing , or its colour , hardness , shape , nearness , transparency , weakness , speed , pitch , temperature , chemical constitution , positive charge , protein content , molecular structure , or spin . |
| 26 | We shall consider three answers to the question , which form a sort of spectrum . |
| 27 | By using different ways to add up the forces on each star from the infinite number of other stars in the universe , one can get different answers to the question of whether the stars can remain at constant distances from each other . |
| 28 | Clearly there may be as many answers to the question as there are individual teachers , but my own personal experience would suggest that there are both negative and positive ‘ vibes ’ . |
| 29 | The research aims to bring to provide answers to the question ‘ How do we imitate what we see someone else do ? ’ |
| 30 | Economists working in this field are attempting to find answers to the question of why the various estimates of NAIRU exhibit a persistent tendency to rise over time . |