Example sentences of "'s answer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hitachi FG10SA is the Japanese company 's answer to the home improvement/small tradesman market . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And France 's answer to Disneyland — a £69m Asterix theme park in Picardy — received its millionth visitor within months of opening last spring . |
| 9 | She has created pop 's answer to Barbarella , dressing her up in clothes fit for a material girl . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The assailant 's answer to Jacob 's demand represents the turning point in the contest , and in the story . |
| 16 | The hype begins Dick Tracy , this year 's answer to Batman , will inevitably spawn similar quantities of merchandise of varying degrees of tastefulness . |
| 17 | ‘ We were Ireland 's answer to the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls rolled into one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | New Yorker Roxanne Lowit , Conde Nast 's answer to Candid Camera , prefers to work backstage . |
| 22 | British Rail 's answer to leaves on the line : cut down the trees |
| 23 | Malawi 's answer to Dr Finlay examined Warrington thoroughly , diagnosed ‘ problems in the marriage area , ’ and prescribed a draught of aphrodisiac tea . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is the North 's answer to Disneyland — try a taste of Tykeworld . |
| 26 | JOHN MAY , Cornwall 's answer to Jeff Probyn , often thinks about retirement . |
| 27 | Artrageous ! , which is to be given a six-week pilot run , will be presented by 22-year-old Jason Rebello , a boy wonder jazz pianist who is Britain 's answer to Herbie Hancock . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Is Kenneth Branagh Britain 's answer to Woody Allen ? |
| 30 | The North 's answer to London 's Roxy . |