Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply to one question , ‘ In track it 's the legs that go first , would you say … ’ , she interrupted with a modest , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 2 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 3 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 4 | If an HIV antibody test is not mentioned in reply to that question , the person whose blood sample is being taken need not refuse consent expressly for an HIV antibody test , but should ask for the purpose of the blood test to be entered in their medical records . |
| 5 | What Eliot said in reply to that question has survived in two versions . |
| 6 | Leibniz 's reply to this question is somewhat confusing . |
| 7 | Once again the key to this question is to apply positive thinking . |
| 8 | I shall examine this question in more detail in the chapters in Part 3 , but meanwhile we might consider briefly how different approaches to language pedagogy in general can be characterized in reference to this question . |
| 9 | The NATO text was finally approved with an ambiguous reference to this question . |
| 10 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 11 | ‘ Do ye know what it is , Mr O'Malley , ’ he said , ‘ I seriously think we attach too much importance to this question of ages between man and wife . |
| 12 | Chairman to that question are rather caused forgive me if I to answer that question . |
| 13 | ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’ |
| 14 | Many pupils found the area instead of the perimeter when the word perimeter was used — about 30 per cent of the pupils — in response to one question . |
| 15 | Even ‘ age ’ can cause problems in areas of the world where birthdays are not celebrated and , indeed , there is often a vague response to any question involving the passage of time . |
| 16 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 17 | Reasons of space alone demand that what may appear to be a contentious response to this question be suggested , rather than developed . |
| 18 | I prefaced my response to this question with the comment that I had no knowledge of the relationship of support for these two projects . |
| 19 | Our response to this question probably reflects our overall reaction to reaching midlife . |
| 20 | Consequently we frequently have an emotional response to this question , ‘ How does it affect me ? ’ . |
| 21 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 22 | The achievement of such a skill by a pupil in response to this question could only be recorded if the method was known . |
| 23 | 1.3. b ( v ) Institutions that listed their numbers of school- based inset days ranged from one College and two Polytechnics doing 40+ to 11 institutions doing no school-based work , and 12 who made no response to this question . |
| 24 | In fact , the arguments in response to this question are no different from the pervasive arguments in the whole of accounting about spatial allocations , from a central pool to smaller units . |
| 25 | The simplest way of recording answers was therefore felt to be to assume that all those answering ‘ yes ’ to question 1 were also in principle against the proposal in question 2 , thus making the overall response to this question negative . |
| 26 | The arguments for and against capping offered in response to this question tended merely to rehearse those already discussed . |
| 27 | He wo n't say anything if he does n't want to — ‘ That 's life , ’ he will shrug , in response to some question that you have built like a house of cards — but if he wants to , he 'll say anything . |
| 28 | Goodier ( 1984 ) has applied a statistical approach to this question and concluded that ‘ the Anglo-Saxons buried a significant proportion of their dead on the boundaries of their land units ’ ( ibid. , 14 ) . |
| 29 | The government 's circular ( 8/87 ) which lays down the guidelines to be observed stresses the importance of a spirit of confidence between parents , governors and teachers in the approach to this question . |
| 30 | I have not given much thought to that question , for the simple reason that I do not follow the elaborate paranoid theory advanced by the hon. Gentleman who believes that I am so worried about those annual reports . |