Example sentences of "'s answer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 2 | Taken together , people 's answers to these three questions indicate that they judge HP to be the most costly common form of credit , and that they judge credit cards , store accounts and check trading to be relatively cheap — with the important qualification that ( presumably taking quality of goods into account ) mail order and check trading , though not expensive , are often thought likely to give poor value for money . |
| 3 | these factors can be assigned weightings , in line with their relative importance , so that a potential customer 's answers to each question on the proposal form can be given a numerical score . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The existence of this self-reward mechanism is demonstrated by the women 's answers to a question about how they felt when they had got their work done as they liked it . |
| 6 | Women 's answers to the questionnaires by which assignments to ‘ stages ’ are made show them to be more heavily represented in the early stages of development rather than the later . |
| 7 | The evidence then given , consisting of both the questions of the prosecutor and Price 's answers to those questions , was recorded on tape . |
| 8 | In your group , discuss everyone 's answers to the questions . |
| 9 | Also , young children 's answers to examination questions may be off the mark , not because they do not know what they are being tested for , but because they misinterpret the examiner 's intention . |
| 10 | The Hitachi FG10SA is the Japanese company 's answer to the home improvement/small tradesman market . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | NUCLEAR power and more competition were offered to the Conservative conference yesterday as the Government 's answer to protecting the environment and safeguarding the future of planet Earth . |
| 14 | IT IS appropriate that , for the first staging of the Heineken Trophy , hockey 's answer to football 's Charity Shield , the country 's two foremost clubs should meet : Hounslow , the Hockey Association Cup-winners , and Southgate , the National League champions , writes Bill Colwill . |
| 15 | Debussy 's answer to a journalist who asked if he was familiar with heaven — ‘ yes , but I do n't natter about it with strangers ’ - is not so silly as it sounds . |
| 16 | It was as a mere 12-year-old — forever doodling characters from favourite children 's stories — that Albert Uderzo set his heart on becoming France 's answer to Walt Disney . |
| 17 | And France 's answer to Disneyland — a £69m Asterix theme park in Picardy — received its millionth visitor within months of opening last spring . |
| 18 | She has created pop 's answer to Barbarella , dressing her up in clothes fit for a material girl . |
| 19 | After a sound seven-year grounding as a buyer for La Rinascente — Italy 's answer to Selfridges — he started designing menswear for Italian fashion giant of the Sixties and Seventies , Nino Cerruti . |
| 20 | The aim was expressed at the launch of a new report reviewing the role and prospects of the small firms sector in the economy , Small Firms in Britain , a publication which in some ways is the government 's answer to pressure for a regular ‘ report on small business ’ , similar to the weighty volume published annually in the United States . |
| 21 | No fool , Berenson went in for finding ‘ Isabellas ’ ; Mrs Gardner fancied herself as America 's answer to Isabella d'Este , the great Renaissance art collector . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | All of this forms a central part of Locke 's answer to his initial question about the extent of human knowledge , and whether there is a horizon between what we can and can not know . |
| 24 | The assailant 's answer to Jacob 's demand represents the turning point in the contest , and in the story . |
| 25 | The hype begins Dick Tracy , this year 's answer to Batman , will inevitably spawn similar quantities of merchandise of varying degrees of tastefulness . |
| 26 | ‘ We were Ireland 's answer to the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls rolled into one . |
| 27 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 | New Yorker Roxanne Lowit , Conde Nast 's answer to Candid Camera , prefers to work backstage . |