Example sentences of "response to [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many pupils found the area instead of the perimeter when the word perimeter was used — about 30 per cent of the pupils — in response to one question . |
| 2 | Even ‘ age ’ can cause problems in areas of the world where birthdays are not celebrated and , indeed , there is often a vague response to any question involving the passage of time . |
| 3 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 4 | Reasons of space alone demand that what may appear to be a contentious response to this question be suggested , rather than developed . |
| 5 | I prefaced my response to this question with the comment that I had no knowledge of the relationship of support for these two projects . |
| 6 | Our response to this question probably reflects our overall reaction to reaching midlife . |
| 7 | Consequently we frequently have an emotional response to this question , ‘ How does it affect me ? ’ . |
| 8 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 9 | The achievement of such a skill by a pupil in response to this question could only be recorded if the method was known . |
| 10 | 1.3. b ( v ) Institutions that listed their numbers of school- based inset days ranged from one College and two Polytechnics doing 40+ to 11 institutions doing no school-based work , and 12 who made no response to this question . |
| 11 | In fact , the arguments in response to this question are no different from the pervasive arguments in the whole of accounting about spatial allocations , from a central pool to smaller units . |
| 12 | The simplest way of recording answers was therefore felt to be to assume that all those answering ‘ yes ’ to question 1 were also in principle against the proposal in question 2 , thus making the overall response to this question negative . |
| 13 | The arguments for and against capping offered in response to this question tended merely to rehearse those already discussed . |
| 14 | He wo n't say anything if he does n't want to — ‘ That 's life , ’ he will shrug , in response to some question that you have built like a house of cards — but if he wants to , he 'll say anything . |