Example sentences of "[unc] answer to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I did deal with that matter er originally and I believe that the the state , the er answer to the question was available precisely at three thirty today .
2 Show jumping 's answer to the Chippendales .
3 Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties .
4 In 1968 , had the staff of It known it , or wanted such a fate , they had the possibility of becoming London 's answer to the Village Voice .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Getting on with living is most people 's answer to the question .
8 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 .
9 The implications of Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ for this question , are clear .
10 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 .
11 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 ? ’
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Minister 's answer to the question on the extension of VAT , I intend to raise the matter on the Adjournment .
15 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 .
16 The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household reported Her Majesty 's Answer to the Address , as follows :
17 They were the late Roman Empire 's answer to the weakness of linear barriers and provided a defence in depth which the latter could not .
18 ‘ We were Ireland 's answer to the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls rolled into one .
19 The Hitachi FG10SA is the Japanese company 's answer to the home improvement/small tradesman market .
20 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 ’ .
21 Dubbed Britain 's answer to the Supremes , the Divas were tipped for the top .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 But anyone who gets drunk at London 's answer to the Munich beer festival is certain to be thrown out .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The toastrack tramcars were Blackpool 's answer to the motor char-a-banc , when they were first introduced on August Bank holiday 1911 .
29 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 .
30 Its Win/U answer to the problem is expected to debut as a commercial product by the end of the year and is claimed to be a step ahead of rival technologies because it requires no Windows source code , see page four .
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