Example sentences of "[art] [adj] reply " in BNC.
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| 1 | To which the assistant replies , ‘ Look , I told you , this is a fish and chip shop . |
| 2 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 3 | The most definitive statement to which attention may be drawn in this regard is the much-quoted reply of Gregory Nazianzen to Apollinarius : ‘ What is not assumed , is not redeemed ’ — or in Greek , ‘ not taken on , not healed ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ He there , ’ was the unbelievable reply . |
| 5 | ‘ Good , ’ came the terse reply . |
| 6 | There seems to be no end to the possible replies we could receive and the job of categorizing them seems a nightmare . |
| 7 | ‘ The classic reply . |
| 8 | He is one of the few comedians who , when someone truthfully observes , ‘ I say , you 're sitting in a dustbin ’ , can make the classic reply , ‘ Oh , so I am ’ sound like an hilarious joke . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Mm … mm … me , sir , ’ came the timid reply . |
| 10 | ‘ Ye-es , s-sir , ’ came the timid reply . |
| 11 | The Iranian reply states that Mr Nezameddin ‘ was collaborating to take action against the national security of the country ’ . |
| 12 | Would n't dream of it , ’ was the mocking reply . |
| 13 | The prompt reply was , ‘ Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer . ’ |
| 14 | You would be the losers , comes the prompt reply . |
| 15 | ‘ Police thug with government backing , ’ comes the prompt reply . |
| 16 | The prompt reply showed just how little Security now had to do : CCOAC translated as Churchgoers Concerned About Communism a one-off conference had in May 1968 . |
| 17 | ‘ Till then , Master Clerk , ’ came the brazen reply . |
| 18 | Use the enclosed reply paid envelope ( no stamp needed ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The emperor , ’ came the devastating reply . |
| 20 | Furthermore , what I have presented as the Althusserean reply to Connolly emphasises the claim that ISAs constitute subjects , at the expense of the view that they legitimate a mode of production . |
| 21 | ‘ Might have , ’ was the tantalizing reply . |
| 22 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 23 | Ask a child ‘ What are you interested in ? ’ and the usual reply was ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 24 | The usual reply to the requisition incorporating practical enquiries is : Confirmed , except as they may have been varied or added to by subsequent correspondence between us . |
| 25 | The proper reply to this is not that the truth of a view , strictly speaking , is independent of the motivations of those who hold it , although that is so . |
| 26 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 27 | ‘ So ? ’ came the nonchalant reply . |
| 28 | ‘ Plenty of housemaids have formed … unfortunate liaisons , ’ was the careful reply . |
| 29 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 30 | This , Greisser said , was a breach of courtesy , and as Lester had been responsible , there would be no apology for the German reply . |