Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] answer to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assailant 's answer to Jacob 's demand represents the turning point in the contest , and in the story . |
| 2 | Baxter and Kinnell were football 's answer to Jake and Elwood . |
| 3 | Troubled by a broken marriage , bankruptcy , a drink problem and inflamed by a wild and uncontrollable temper , he was football 's answer to Benny Lynch , a genius in search of tragedy . |
| 4 | The ex-lead singer of Black Flag has established for himself a reputation as punk rock 's answer to Peter Ustinov . |
| 5 | Departures are either from the bustling port of Peterborough , or from Milton Keynes , which has finally found a role for itself as East Anglia 's answer to Blackpool . |
| 6 | The North 's answer to London 's Roxy . |
| 7 | This is the North 's answer to Disneyland — try a taste of Tykeworld . |
| 8 | Quattro Pro for Windows is Borland 's answer to Microsoft 's Excel , and is also an excellent Windows spreadsheet with many clever functions . |
| 9 | He 's England 's answer to Tom Selleck and I think he should be the next James Bond , man ’ The cricketer was allegedly slated to appear in a film opposite Oliver Reed , and his humorous performances on Question Of Sport surprised many . |
| 10 | The composer Edward Elgar was once hailed as England 's answer to Beethoven . |
| 11 | Of course it still has to sell the idea to management and our source thinks Austin is still 24 months from a product , but the notion could be IBM 's answer to Microsoft 's NT . |
| 12 | One of Dublin 's funniest comedians Carl McDermott will be appearing as well as Scotland 's answer to Paul Daniels — Kevin Kopfstein , a magician/ comic . |
| 13 | North Shore 's answer to Ardmore 's museum is a fascinating collection of old-timers in various stages of repair , and a local squadron of the Confederate Air Force . |
| 14 | British Rail 's answer to leaves on the line : cut down the trees |
| 15 | This month 's selection of the latest hardware and software includes more screen-saving madness ; a desktop publishing program with a difference ; British Rail 's answer to timetable misery ; a fax modem that is n't a fax modem ; and a security package to keep the contents of your portable computer safe . |
| 16 | Sound track by Count Basie and Islam 's answer to Pavarotti in the even more enormous shape of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ; voice like a tripped-out angel in a dream even though I have no idea what he 's singing about and always sneakingly suspect it 's something on the lines of ‘ Hey , let's string up Salman Rushdie , yeah-yeah ’ . |
| 17 | Franklin , Sheffield 's answer to Glenda Jackson , is upbeat . |
| 18 | Paul Heaton and friends are definitely not Hull 's answer to Deacon Blue ; more they question why Deacon Blue even exist . |
| 19 | EILEEN Walker is Middlesbrough 's answer to Jane Asher — she makes the most amazing cakes . |
| 20 | Millside 's answer to Guggenheim . |
| 21 | What was ITV 's answer to Neighbours which features young stars and Aussie sunshine ? |
| 22 | She has created pop 's answer to Barbarella , dressing her up in clothes fit for a material girl . |
| 23 | City Plaza is the glittering home of many designer labels , and Rackhams is Birmingham 's own House of Fraser store — the Midlands ' answer to Harrods ! |
| 24 | But there was a joker in the pack , too , a fool at this court of kings , a jester , a clown , pure showman and extrovert , the big-wave riders ' answer to Evel Knievel . |
| 25 | The novel insisted on reverting to the ampler great-sinner pattern ; hence Stavrogin 's emergence as ‘ chief character ’ , ‘ tragic villain ’ and so forth during this period , and Peter Verkhovensky 's withdrawal to the second rank : Verkhovensky the mere wrecker , the nihilist , the man of the 1860s , the deeper realist 's answer to Turgenev . |
| 26 | The result , he claims , is ‘ comedy 's answer to Ramadan ’ . |
| 27 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 28 | It must be accepted that what we are collecting is people 's answers to questions , which is not necessarily a true picture of their activities . |
| 29 | The press called her Britain 's answer to Marilyn Monroe . |
| 30 | No wonder boss Jim Driscoll — who invented the Shoe People and set up the company — is being dubbed Britain 's answer to Walt Disney . |