Example sentences of "[adj] reply [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you not think that almost regardless of the reply and whatever that reply contained , with what we now know with the benefit of hindsight about Liechtenstein , which was actually known by I M R O there 's not for the benefit of hindsight that was n't known at that time , should n't I M R O have refused immediately to license any organisation that was controlled out of Liechtenstein in those circumstances ? |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that I have been asking this question , mostly of him , for the past 13 years and that that reply reflects how serious is youth unemployment in Scotland ? |
| 3 | She wrote Ben a hasty reply saying that she would love to go with him , thank you very much , and posted it through his letter box almost immediately . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Iranian reply states that Mr Nezameddin ‘ was collaborating to take action against the national security of the country ’ . |
| 6 | Use the enclosed reply paid envelope ( no stamp needed ) . |
| 7 | The evidence suggested that this reply had come to the attention of the deceased . |
| 8 | This reply read : ‘ I duly acknowledge receipt of correspondence sent in respect of children in care and confirm that the mail has now been forwarded accordingly . ’ |
| 9 | This reply sounds very plausible , until one reflects on it ; and then a serious difficulty emerges . |
| 10 | This reply raises large issues ; but chapter 5 contains a lengthy argument that if there is any non-inferential knowledge , some of it concerns things other than our sensory states — so why not sheep , for instance ? |
| 11 | This reply illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of the somewhat positivist approach of Bohr and his friends , with their emphasis on classical measuring apparatus . |
| 12 | This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form , but in either form it has clearly got some point . |
| 13 | They made a spirited reply to earn an equaliser after 13 minutes when midfield player Neil Maddison turned a pass from Glenn Cockerill . |
| 14 | ‘ In her letter concerning Wilde and Douglas , ’ Minton 's dignified reply begins , ‘ it is indeed distressing that someone of Dr. Marie Stopes 's eminence should refer to Wilde 's homosexuality with such bigoted moral fervour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Spear also found in a study of teachers ' attitudes to girls and technology that the most sex-differentiated replies came from science teachers ( Spear in this volume ) . |
| 17 | They liked to tell stories of funny replies to canvass enquiries or of japes played against the socialists , when putting up or pulling down posters . |
| 18 | But today they asked regular shoppers to think back exactly one week , and some replies have been helpful . |
| 19 | These works produced only two Scottish replies arguing against the English case , The Complaynt of Scotland , and the recently discovered Ane Resonying of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rawand ( Rouen ) and Lionis ( Lyons ) by the royal councillor and administrator William Lamb , an imagined discourse between two merchants travelling in France , in which the Scottish merchant utterly refuted , point by point , the claims of Henry VIII set out in his 1542 Declaration . |
| 20 | A few replies contained the comment that families were sometimes reluctant to reveal information to their doctor . |
| 21 | Korda 's shirty reply suggested he was n't willing to listen to such a criticism from an expensive star . |
| 22 | My lame reply protested that people in business were just as interested as anyone else but their noses were kept very close to their own grindstones . |
| 23 | Authors of the first 100 replies received will be invited as guests to the forum on 1 October at the Savoy , London . |
| 24 | Individual replies have , of course , been treated in the strictest confidence , but some of the aggregated results of the survey are summarised below . |
| 25 | Open to anyone who cares about the environment- Reply guaranteed . |
| 26 | So try and do that as objectively as you can , and do n't forget if you 've got a partner , do it together because we , I do get these won these reply slips back , and you can often tell who 's filled it in . |
| 27 | This brief reply threatened to bring the argument to an abrupt halt . |
| 28 | His voice had become more terse with each of her questions , and now his brief reply caused Isabel to fall silent . |
| 29 | Three replies had been received to the applications he had sent , and had been opened by his father as Joe had asked . |
| 30 | Characteristic replies included : ‘ There 's no point in thinking about it . |