Example sentences of "[verb] the answer " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of attempts to sue experts reached the law reports in the years before 1975 , but they invariably met the answer that the experts were " quasi-arbitrators " and therefore could not be sued . |
| 2 | THERE is no competition attached to the following remarks , mainly because it would be easy enough to cheat , but I would be glad to have any suggestions about the question that could have received the answer quoted . |
| 3 | The friends of Montrose who supported the various candidates were very troublesome , for political management required careful and friendly replies , and it was clear that they could not all be given the answers they expected or hoped to receive . |
| 4 | The first observation might have given the answers " here " or " there " ; sometimes it gives one and sometimes the other . |
| 5 | At that moment , back in Bamford , Chief Inspector Markby was about to be given the answer to that question . |
| 6 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 7 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 8 | The teacher asks the questions ; the pupil supplies the answer ; the teacher makes a confirming or dismissive comment or gesture . |
| 9 | As a member of the Procedure Committee , I was one of those who urged — not least at my hon. Friend 's insistence — that the House should once again be able to see the answers to parliamentary questions on social security matters . |
| 10 | Substitute numbers in a simple formula expressed in words and evaluate the answer ; e.g. , gross wage wage per hour x number of hours worked ; total cost number of units used x cost per unit + standing charge . |
| 11 | After a long moment , in which he read the answer for himself , I said , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 12 | Something that you 've got on display where they could just read it , pick the answer out . |
| 13 | It became the answer to their pressing question : |
| 14 | So what has to happen , ideally , is that your detective must learn piece by piece things which will eventually make the answer to the fundamental puzzle clear . |
| 15 | But not everyone here thinks the answer is to dig up the fields and destroy the character of the community . |
| 16 | The Bank of Japan thinks the answer is : a lot , implying strong investment , few sales and tight money . |
| 17 | Ronald Ziolo , a chemist at Xerox 's Webster Research Centre near Rochester , New York , thinks the answer lies with a new version of boring old iron oxide — better known , in slightly different forms , as the magnetic coating on audio and video tapes , and as rust on cars . |
| 18 | You ask the first question , and within moments six people are disagreeing vehemently with one another in Greek , breaking off to explain courteously in English what each thinks the answer should be , and then disagreeing with equal passion in English . |
| 19 | This , from an administration which routinely blocks moves to a cleaner sea , which gives occasional wrist slaps to regular industrial polluters , which encourages the import of dangerous waste for processing , which has starved rail freight services and increased road haulage and which somehow thinks the answer to the giant car-park which masquerades as the M25 is to add yet more lanes in which to crawl . |
| 20 | " What does she do now/@ he asked , although he had already guessed the answer . |
| 21 | WE simply went out into the street and got the answers from the people who matter — Neighbours fans . |
| 22 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 23 | Chief Supt Strange , once a likeable fusspot , seems to be going round the bend , and Morse got the answer wrong a whole reel before the end . |
| 24 | 8 Instead of multiplying a number by 98 , Julie multiplied it by 89 and got the answer 23,585 . |
| 25 | 16 If you got the answer $ +e you were correct . |
| 26 | Er excuse me , we got the answer right ? |
| 27 | That really was the riddle , and if they got the answer right they would escape from the castle , be taken from this limbo and resume their duties and positions in the Therapeutic Wars again , debt paid . |
| 28 | If you got the answer right you 'll know what I mean . |
| 29 | During the run , correct answers were checked before the stimulus cards were put into the tachistoscope and the appropriate trial ticked if the subject got the answer correct . |
| 30 | Times nought point four five of eight by two hundred and got the answer . |