Example sentences of "[adj] answer to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 3 | This meant providing informed answers to a number of questions . |
| 4 | All that we ask is that it provides public answers to the question most people in this country are asking . |
| 5 | LCCIEB Answer Packs will combine the Chief Examiner 's Report on candidates ' achievement with detailed answers to every question asked . |
| 6 | The text is based on ideas that have been developed through observations and trials in the classroom — they are offered in the spirit of exploration rather than in supplying definitive answers to the designer 's problems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a start , there is a clear answer to the question of where thoughts and feelings take place , if not so fine an answer as we might like . |
| 10 | But we have seen enough to be able to frame a clear answer to the question formulated at the outset of this chapter . |
| 11 | As far as the actual word graphs output from a particular utterance , it is hard to give a clear answer to the question : what are the average number of choices on the word graph at any particular point ? |
| 12 | The company that makes the lead additives that are trickled into our petrol has another answer to the problem . |
| 13 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 14 | The first approach may produce an acceptable answer to the problem . |
| 15 | I would imagine that an adequate answer to a question could be done very easily with one side of that . |
| 16 | This is true , but on the other hand it must be said that to give the wrong answer to a problem is not necessarily to miss the point of it . |
| 17 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 18 | The rule was a framework within which this answer to the question could be lived . |
| 19 | WHEN I was about eight years old , I had to learn this answer to the question : ‘ What is God ? ’ in the Roman Catholic catechism : ‘ God is the supreme spirit who alone exists of himself and is infinite in all perfections . ’ |
| 20 | This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly . |
| 21 | Where this book mainly fails is in its implied answer to the question : what sort of science is to be grown ? |
| 22 | Although Poulantzas does not give a direct answer to the question ‘ How are we to know a pertinent effect when we encounter one ? ’ , he does discuss an historical example which may throw light on the matter . |
| 23 | In sum , there is no definitive answer to the question of how many senses there are : we have yet to discover all of our own , and even less do we know the full details of those enjoyed by some of the other members of the Animal Kingdom . |
| 24 | themselves admit that ‘ a definitive answer to the question of job techniques and job autonomy could be provided only by systematic and direct observation over a prolonged period of time ’ . |
| 25 | None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on . |
| 26 | In saying this , of course , we are simply restating the fundamental question of psycholinguistics and it is not to be expected that there is some answer to the problem of explanation or even a commonly agreed way of investigating the issues involved . |
| 27 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 28 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 29 | Whether the issue is education or health , pollution or overseas aid , one sees the same mishmash of self-righteous resentment , sentimentality and wishful thinking providing the same simple answers to every problem , without the slightest reference to the real world . |
| 30 | 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 . |