Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply to one question , ‘ In track it 's the legs that go first , would you say … ’ , she interrupted with a modest , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 2 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 3 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 4 | If an HIV antibody test is not mentioned in reply to that question , the person whose blood sample is being taken need not refuse consent expressly for an HIV antibody test , but should ask for the purpose of the blood test to be entered in their medical records . |
| 5 | What Eliot said in reply to that question has survived in two versions . |
| 6 | Christians are ‘ believers ’ , but the appropriate Christian reply to such questions would not be ‘ I believe so ’ but ‘ Yes ! ’ |
| 7 | Leibniz 's reply to this question is somewhat confusing . |
| 8 | These are the first answers given , but in reply to further questions the number of women making at least one negative reference increases to twenty-seven — sixty-eight per cent of the sample . |
| 9 | A tentative reply to these questions we think would be that an attempt to construct a purely feminist demand around housing presents major problems , in the way that demands around financial independence , sexuality , childcare and so on , do not . |
| 10 | He is not much of a talker ; a longish sentence for him is um , his standard reply to most questions . |
| 11 | Once again the key to this question is to apply positive thinking . |
| 12 | There does not appear to be a clear answer in law to these questions . |
| 13 | I shall examine this question in more detail in the chapters in Part 3 , but meanwhile we might consider briefly how different approaches to language pedagogy in general can be characterized in reference to this question . |
| 14 | The NATO text was finally approved with an ambiguous reference to this question . |
| 15 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 16 | A great many theoretical physicists would be prepared to express some unease about the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics — in particular , about Copenhagen orthodoxy — but only a tiny fraction of them ever direct serious attention to such questions . |
| 17 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 18 | ‘ Do ye know what it is , Mr O'Malley , ’ he said , ‘ I seriously think we attach too much importance to this question of ages between man and wife . |
| 19 | Think about your reaction to these questions and pause for a moment , before you continue reading , to assess your response . |
| 20 | In Winograd 's ( 1971 ) well-known language understanding program , for example , there is a syntax analysis module and a semantics analysis module : these can demand answers from each other to specific questions about the structures of sentences but can not ‘ get at ’ how the other one finds out whatever it does . |
| 21 | You need an active revision system which allows you to adjust your knowledge to different questions . |
| 22 | Chairman to that question are rather caused forgive me if I to answer that question . |
| 23 | This account gives rise to two questions , both of them large and difficult : first , how do ideological state apparatuses ( ISAs ) constitute individuals ; and second , how can Althusser justify his claim that his theory escapes the tentacles of ideology and tells us how the world really is ? |
| 24 | To take an obvious example , the drafter may draft the terms referring to the parties as 'seller " and " Buyer " ; if a clause is then incorporated from a different document , referring to " the Customer " , it may give rise to difficult questions of interpretation : prima facie it will be assumed that " the Buyer " and " the Customer " are different people . |
| 25 | As to the performance , the increasing quantity of ‘ voices only ’ work by the Hilliard Ensemble and others gives rise to several questions about the performance style and vocal colour which these groups consciously or not have adopted . |
| 26 | ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’ |
| 27 | In addition to answering Questions and the handling of all departmental business in the Commons , the Parliamentary Secretary was given responsibility for legal aid and the development of legal services ; relations with the Land Registry and Public Record Office ; some budget and resource matters ; and equal opportunities and women 's issues outside the judicial context . |
| 28 | Many pupils found the area instead of the perimeter when the word perimeter was used — about 30 per cent of the pupils — in response to one question . |
| 29 | My response to such questions is to suggest that there is no one ideal diet suitable for everyone . |
| 30 | One study ( CBI , 1983 ) has shown that a significant proportion of firms actually experiencing fairly large changes in their total workforces report in response to such questions that their workforces have " stayed the same " . |