Example sentences of "'s answer to the " in BNC.

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1 The Hitachi FG10SA is the Japanese company 's answer to the home improvement/small tradesman market .
2 When he recently received a César , France 's answer to the Oscars , Mr Depardieu lumbered up to the stage , giggled as if half-drunk and whispered ‘ It 's tough being alive and lonely ’ .
3 ‘ We were Ireland 's answer to the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls rolled into one .
4 Rees-Mogg 's answer to the question of why his name had such appeal for Downing Street during the eighties has an undramatic plausibility about it .
5 As we sat over our coffee , László explained how one of Pest 's main streets , Pest 's answer to the Champs Elysées , had had five changes of name since 1948 .
6 1 am , Ribble Valley : The area is sometimes described as Lancashire 's answer to the Yorkshire Dales and , like the Dales , has plenty of farming stock .
7 That Jennens had some talent as a poet may be judged from ‘ Parthenissa 's Answer to the Pocket-Book 's Soliloquy ’ , a poem in Leapor 's second volume which can now be attributed to her .
8 And her father 's answer to the question given himself had been : those tests at the secretarial college were making his daughter nervy ; and the quicker they were over the better .
9 The toastrack tramcars were Blackpool 's answer to the motor char-a-banc , when they were first introduced on August Bank holiday 1911 .
10 YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years .
11 The Kirk 's answer to the rollicking rabbis was of course Revd James Currie .
12 Following supremely successful spell as a regular goalscorer at Arsenal , Watford and Northampton , Cliff Holton became Palace Manager Dick Graham 's answer to the perilous situation we were in as midwinter 1962 approached .
13 That 's it : Britain 's answer to the S-class .
14 Future foods may come from leaf protein , the winged bean ( the tropic 's answer to the soybean ) and dozens of fruits including the pummelo ( a large citrus fruit from Southeast Asia ) , the soursop from South America and the mangosteen from Malaysia .
15 Getting on with living is most people 's answer to the question .
16 The Utopia system is Rocktron 's answer to the custom-built , component-based mega rack .
17 Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range .
18 It would be the game 's answer to the Super Bowl and would be staged in venues like Tokyo .
19 It was heralded as Europe 's answer to the Japanese version of HDTV .
20 But anyone who gets drunk at London 's answer to the Munich beer festival is certain to be thrown out .
21 Surely it could n't be BALLOON , Dedicated 's answer to The Two Ronnies ?
22 Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ arises out of his reflections on the representative theory of perception .
23 The implications of Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ for this question , are clear .
24 Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully .
25 For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’
26 Wittgenstein 's answer to the question with which we began is that the psychological verbs , as he calls them , are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not ’ .
27 I think Wittgenstein 's answer to the last two questions would be ‘ Yes ’ .
28 The Duchess 's answer to the eagerness of so many to attend her ball had been to have tickets of admission printed , yet , even so , Bristow expected there to be at least as many interlopers as ticket holders .
29 Its timing and its fitful application might suggest that it was the king 's answer to the decrees of the archbishop 's reforming council of Reading .
30 For the reasons given above , I am of the opinion the judge 's answer to the question posed was correct and I would dismiss this appeal .
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