Example sentences of "[adj] answer to [art] question " in BNC.

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1 For a start , there is a clear answer to the question of where thoughts and feelings take place , if not so fine an answer as we might like .
2 But we have seen enough to be able to frame a clear answer to the question formulated at the outset of this chapter .
3 As far as the actual word graphs output from a particular utterance , it is hard to give a clear answer to the question : what are the average number of choices on the word graph at any particular point ?
4 It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation .
5 I would imagine that an adequate answer to a question could be done very easily with one side of that .
6 J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length .
7 The rule was a framework within which this answer to the question could be lived .
8 WHEN I was about eight years old , I had to learn this answer to the question : ‘ What is God ? ’ in the Roman Catholic catechism : ‘ God is the supreme spirit who alone exists of himself and is infinite in all perfections . ’
9 Where this book mainly fails is in its implied answer to the question : what sort of science is to be grown ?
10 Although Poulantzas does not give a direct answer to the question ‘ How are we to know a pertinent effect when we encounter one ? ’ , he does discuss an historical example which may throw light on the matter .
11 In sum , there is no definitive answer to the question of how many senses there are : we have yet to discover all of our own , and even less do we know the full details of those enjoyed by some of the other members of the Animal Kingdom .
12 themselves admit that ‘ a definitive answer to the question of job techniques and job autonomy could be provided only by systematic and direct observation over a prolonged period of time ’ .
13 None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on .
14 Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question .
15 The most natural and explicit answer to the question of what caused something , then , is simply a property or relation of an ordinary thing .
16 You should not treat the printed solution as being the only authoritative answer to the question .
17 By that time your sub-conscious mind has drafted the real answer to the question .
18 And so you will see that the real answer to the question " Who governs the country " is that " The Country Governs itself .
19 There is no simple answer to the question ‘ What are the sources of the modern historian ? ’ because the only defensible one would be the logical but nonsensical ‘ everything ’ .
20 One reason why there can be no simple answer to the question whether there has been irresolvable conflict between science and religion is that the answer may well depend on which of these types of explanation is favored .
21 A simple answer to the question would be that We do , generally speaking , dream in colour , but that this aspect of the dream tends to be forgotten .
22 The issues are finely balanced and there is no simple answer to the question .
23 The engineer wants to know the simple answer to the question " how much load will this structure or piece of material take before it deforms irrevocably by yield or by fracture ? "
24 The honest answer to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) is that under this Government there will never be a balance between exports and imports .
25 Sometimes I would receive a monosyllabic answer to a question , but generally my enquiries were met with either blank silences or , more often , with graphic expletives .
26 In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’
27 And then he gave what Ramsey thought a startling answer to a question which to Ramsey was a crux .
28 The decision itself is likely to be a brief answer to the question put : for a one-line example see the decision in Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , quoted at 13.6.4 .
29 Does he agree that that would give parents an objective answer to the question , ’ How is my child 's school doing ? ’ , as well as further pressing back the frontiers of choice in education ?
30 Having rejected the sceptical opinion that " anything can be literature " Willie van Peer supplies a rigorous and objective answer to the question : " But What is Literature ? "
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