Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] answer to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assailant 's answer to Jacob 's demand represents the turning point in the contest , and in the story . |
| 2 | Baxter and Kinnell were football 's answer to Jake and Elwood . |
| 3 | Troubled by a broken marriage , bankruptcy , a drink problem and inflamed by a wild and uncontrollable temper , he was football 's answer to Benny Lynch , a genius in search of tragedy . |
| 4 | The ex-lead singer of Black Flag has established for himself a reputation as punk rock 's answer to Peter Ustinov . |
| 5 | British Rail 's answer to leaves on the line : cut down the trees |
| 6 | This month 's selection of the latest hardware and software includes more screen-saving madness ; a desktop publishing program with a difference ; British Rail 's answer to timetable misery ; a fax modem that is n't a fax modem ; and a security package to keep the contents of your portable computer safe . |
| 7 | Sound track by Count Basie and Islam 's answer to Pavarotti in the even more enormous shape of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ; voice like a tripped-out angel in a dream even though I have no idea what he 's singing about and always sneakingly suspect it 's something on the lines of ‘ Hey , let's string up Salman Rushdie , yeah-yeah ’ . |
| 8 | She has created pop 's answer to Barbarella , dressing her up in clothes fit for a material girl . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The result , he claims , is ‘ comedy 's answer to Ramadan ’ . |
| 11 | The creation of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau ( SCB ) in September 1986 was The Law Society 's answer to critics of the complaints machinery . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What Glasgow 's director Julian Spalding proudly describes as ‘ the museum world 's answer to Disney ’ takes the form of a major exhibition drawing on the history of Native American Indians since Columbus 's landing . |
| 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 | The hype begins Dick Tracy , this year 's answer to Batman , will inevitably spawn similar quantities of merchandise of varying degrees of tastefulness . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Either way , the meaty hunk of French boeuf , who we rate as the screen 's answer to Ian Botham , seems considerably ill at ease as a father trying to fend off the local romeos from his daughter while holidaying on the enchanted island . |
| 18 | Hence , in addition to such general topics as reason and revelation , science and religion , history and faith , and the validity of religious language , courses cover the content of Graeco-Roman philosophical ( religious ) thought and its influence upon early formulation of Christian doctrine ; the medieval syntheses of philosophy and theology ; the critical turn of modern philosophy and its insistence on a rational Christian faith ( Descartes , Kant , Hegel ) ; the challenge to Christianity and Christianity 's answer to Marxism , Atheistic Existentialism , Humanism and Anti-Humanism and British Empiricism from Hume to the Linguistic Philosophers . |
| 19 | I liked her Mat Coward and Edward Pearce ( ‘ Socialism 's answer to Ezra Pound , only more confused ’ and ‘ A sort of sober Dylan Thomas ’ ) , and confidently expect to see more of her in the future . |