Example sentences of "an answer to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you get an improper fraction as an answer to a problem you should always change it to a mixed number . |
| 2 | It is bad style to begin an answer to a problem by citing a string of cases . |
| 3 | The idea of town planning was something that presented itself as an answer to a problem or group of problems which had arisen in contemporary urban life ’ ( Ashworth , 1954 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It is an answer to a prayer I had stopped praying , ’ Wilson said , ‘ and you , not God , have answered it . ’ |
| 5 | So when the advert for the Rose Bowl had appeared in the trade Press it had seemed like an answer to a prayer . |
| 6 | A tall , thin man stood staring at a stone wall , as if waiting for an answer to a question he had put to it . |
| 7 | If you come across an answer to a question that does n't fit the headings you 've already got , summarise that answer and write it on the master sheet : thereafter put a tally mark against it every time an answer fits it . |
| 8 | But when it comes to saying , ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is being advanced , not in order to justify an answer to a question of fact that arises within the language-game , but in order to justify an extension of the language-game we have on Earth to the Sun . |
| 9 | This suggests an answer to a question which has troubled international political economists since the early 1970s : what happens when the hegemon needed for hegemonic stability begins to decline ? |
| 10 | There there are three of us er , that is Mr Allenby Mr Heselton and me looking for an answer to a question which was about |
| 11 | Such consent would not be an answer to a charge of assault , and the policy reasons that forbid consenting adults to engage in fighting for the purposes of assault should apply equally in the case of an affray . |
| 12 | Jacques Savary , one of Europe 's leading 17th century commercial lawyers illustrated in an answer to a consultation ( Parere ) , the importance of the captain 's public fiduciary role . |
| 13 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) Is the ex turpi causa defence available as an answer to a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 ? |
| 15 | In my judgment the ex turpi causa defence is not available as an answer to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 . |
| 16 | But a happy , ordinary family with an answer to every problem ? |
| 17 | Nobody quite has an answer to the question ‘ why Labour for the Nineties ? ’ . |
| 18 | The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death . |
| 19 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 20 | He suppressed the urge to respond , to tease an answer to the question out of himself . |
| 21 | It is an answer to the question ‘ why ? ’ |
| 22 | If they were to try to give an answer to the question at the head of this section , they would probably try to give a general account of factors which encourage or discourage chickens from crossing roads . |
| 23 | In effect , it is as if the woman making the bar magnets suddenly realized that there were more questions to be asked about her job ; that pressing the button was not really much of an answer to the question ‘ How do you make magnets ? ’ |
| 24 | Before he finished writing the book , someone gave him an answer to the question . |
| 25 | It is as if one is seeking to give an answer to the question : What advantage does morality bring ? |
| 26 | We think we should not accept ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ as a valid communication unless we allow for an answer to the question , ‘ How does he know ? ’ or ‘ What observation justifies him in saying that ? ’ |
| 27 | This past mental act of meaning is a grammatical fiction , but it seems more like fact when it provides the material for an answer to the question , ‘ What does the word ‘ mean ’ stand for ? ’ |
| 28 | We do not have , in just an effect , such an answer to the question of why a causal circumstance occurred . |
| 29 | They are relevant to what the speaker wishes to provide as an answer to the question , given the particular hearer he has . |
| 30 | Speaker D's response at the end of this fragment is , in effect , an answer to the question which speaker C originally intended him to answer . |