Example sentences of "answer to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement in April 1981 that SLOA had bought a rake of eight Pullman cars , mounted on 100mph Commonwealth bogies and fitted with dual steam/electric heating , seemed to be the answer to a prayer . |
| 2 | Proponents argue it would stabilise the pound and save Mr Lawson from resorting to the conventional answer to a currency crisis : a big emergency increase in interest rates . |
| 3 | Debussy 's answer to a journalist who asked if he was familiar with heaven — ‘ yes , but I do n't natter about it with strangers ’ - is not so silly as it sounds . |
| 4 | Frozen meals and a microwave oven may sound the answer to a quick meal for someone on shift work or nightflying . |
| 5 | And then he gave what Ramsey thought a startling answer to a question which to Ramsey was a crux . |
| 6 | The employers on Friday increased their offer of 7.6 per cent and one extra day 's holiday , in answer to a 10 per cent demand with two extra days now . |
| 7 | The writs , i.e. the King 's commands that a person shall appear in one of the King 's Courts in answer to a claim , are issued in his name , as they still are today , and are issued from his office . |
| 8 | Charles explained that he 'd come round in answer to a complaint and rather thankfully began to pass on apologies on behalf of the Regiment for transmission to Lord Southdown later , but the butler shook his head regretfully once more , indicated that Lady Charity was at home , and felt certain that she would deal with the matter . |
| 9 | What do you say in answer to a proposition like that ? |
| 10 | ‘ It is an answer to a prayer I had stopped praying , ’ Wilson said , ‘ and you , not God , have answered it . ’ |
| 11 | In answer to a prosecution question , he stated that he did hear indistinct gunfire , but had thought no more of it . |
| 12 | In answer to a question from the prosecution , Day replied that William Tidbury seemed very much on edge and in a nervous condition , which was unusual for him . |
| 13 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A tall , thin man stood staring at a stone wall , as if waiting for an answer to a question he had put to it . |
| 16 | For a long time it was felt that having kiddies was the answer to a woman 's complete fulfilment . |
| 17 | In answer to a series of provocations ( young skins distributing Robert Relf leaflets , insulting Asian women etc ) , the Southall Asian Youth Movement decided to fight fire with fire . |
| 18 | This was Telford 's answer to a problem he was called in to solve . |
| 19 | In answer to a question in the House , by Lord John Manners on 19th June , Hall stated that the judges would be able to make their award ‘ on or about 25th instant ’ . |
| 20 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 21 | In early 1985 , work started at Wolverton on two new Royal Vehicles built on MKIII underframes ; in answer to a question in Parliament in April of 1985 , Mr David Mitchell , Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport , stated ‘ Most of the existing fleet is old , and several vehicles contain asbestos . |
| 22 | And three physicists writing in Nature show that monopoles are not the answer to a long-standing problem of solar physics — that of the ‘ missing ’ solar neutrinos . |
| 23 | ‘ The licensing authority has therefore not asked for the CSM 's advice on it ’ , Clarke told Jack Ashley in a written answer to a question ( which we had put to the DHSS three week earlier ) . |
| 24 | The parallels of the extreme behaviourist and the extreme hereditarian meet at a finite point and join hands in mystic union , like the snake with its tail in its mouth , welded together by the acetylene torch of commitment to one approach and one answer to a multitude of questions . |
| 25 | But there are always a few that fit neither category , and seem most of all to require a personal answer to a specific question . |
| 26 | I wrote an appreciation of its scientific and military implications for circulation inside COHQ ( for example , ‘ atomic hand-grenades are an unlikely development ’ — in answer to a serious inquiry ) . |
| 27 | Frequently it is not the case that we have no answer to a question — rather , we have too many . |
| 28 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 29 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 30 | It happened with me , when at the age of 18 , I took up pen and paper to make a reply to the readers ' letters column of the Glasgow Evening Times , in answer to a man who supported the rise of Nazism in Germany . |