negative answer

"To that question I would give a very clear negative answer."

This shows that the second question has a negative answer.

Given the outcome, everything seems to point to a negative answer.

It took many years for the problem to be solved with a negative answer.

It seemed that I'd come a long, painful way for a negative answer.

Two very recent traumatic experiences probably provide a negative answer.

Negative answers, as he expected, came from the data banks.

Yet Beijing's negative answer did not come as a real surprise.

A negative answer would probably have meant death for Luke and herself.

I'd asked for identification twice and got a negative answer both times.

So if end up squaring a number and get a negative answer you've got it wrong!

She received over 1500 letters from magazine readers, without a single negative answer among them.

The experience of the last 10 years provides an unequivocally negative answer.

It had only been a try-on, to see what form the negative answer would take.

The negative answer was evident in the crew leader's manner.

And that negative answer took away my last suspect.

Negative answers, however, always use the indicative form of the verb.

But he had learned not to accept negative answers.

But this is a purely negative answer to the increasingly pressing question of Japan's role in the world.

He asked a polite question, expecting a negative answer.

In August 1991 the federal government gave its final, negative answer and the joint venture ceased work on the project.

Efforts with the dials tended toward a negative answer in the question of robbery.

At the negative answer, the screen froze and a red "denied sign" appeared across it.

He did so and received a negative answer.