Example sentences of "a [adj] response to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A different response to the issues of " relevance " , and perhaps the more common one within higher education from the 1960s , was to take the degree of " adequacy " of literary awareness to be the measure of the individual student 's " intelligence " or " maturity " . |
| 2 | A decision to make a marginal increase in the school 's contact ratio , in order , say , to purchase administrative and clerical assistance in the recording of assessments ( probably a sensible response to the demands of the new curriculum ) will affect the conditions of service of every teacher . |
| 3 | This in turn raises a serious and subversive problem identified by Paul Gilroy : that ‘ the content of ’ antiracism ’ has not always been a direct response to the ideologies and practices of racism' ( Gilroy , 1987 , p. 114 ) . |
| 4 | The first task then is not to examine the arguments themselves but to consider those aspects which will assist a favourable response to the arguments . |
| 5 | The strategy of ‘ unequal investment ’ — deliberately concentrating attention on specific groups — was a conscious response to the dilemmas of grouping . |
| 6 | Some of these ‘ field experiments ’ may be a satisfactory response to the criticisms levelled at laboratory experiments , but they have other problems of their own . |
| 7 | On the same programme , Lord Mackay said he believed the bill was a full response to the protests he had received since he announced the proposed changes . |
| 8 | Roger Young , director-general of the Institute of Management , gave a cool response to the proposals , saying that allowing 30,000 long-term jobless to take up vocational courses without losing their benefits — one of Mr Lamont 's proposed measures — was a ‘ drop in the ocean ’ . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 10 | Environmental medicine , working in conjunction with religious principles of moral education , formed a dominant response to the problems posed by the working-class in the period between 1850 and 1870 . |
| 11 | The maturing of British cinema between 1939 and 1945 is often seen as a particular response to the conditions of wartime , when filmmakers were called upon to communicate to audiences an idea of ‘ what we are fighting for . ’ |
| 12 | Elsewhere , financial markets gave a muted response to the Democrats ' triumph . |
| 13 | The fundamental administrative problem has been the perennial difficulty in achieving a co-ordinated response to the problems facing the inner-urban cores . |
| 14 | Users ' apparent preference for the direct shelf approach in subject searching can be considered either as a negative response to the catalogue or as a positive response to the shelves . |
| 15 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 16 | Even employers gave a lukewarm response to the jobs proposals . |
| 17 | Although innovation in particular cases had fostered very high population densities , it was the absence of population growth resulting from both the slave trade and the incidence of disease that provided little general incentive to intensify systems which were an adequate response to the difficulties of the environment . |
| 18 | The search for an appropriate response to the problems of conflicts abuse in financial conglomerates , central to which is the increased need to protect investors , must be set within this context . |
| 19 | Although South Korea did not make an official response to the preconditions — all of which it had rejected in the past — it did agreed to suspend its pursuit of membership of the UN until the two Korean states had discussed the issue further . |
| 20 | Lacanian-influenced feminism is hardly an ideal response to the deficiencies in feminist psychology . |
| 21 | From conversations , like this , with Afro-Caribbean pupils it appears that many see a conflict with teachers as an inevitable response to the attitudes held by teachers towards their ethnicity . |
| 22 | With the Frankish Church 's new emphasis on godparental obligations , such a reinforcing of a biological kin-tie by a spiritual one became an adroit response to the dangers set out by Charlemagne in the 806 division-project . |
| 23 | This dramatic demonstration was part of a series of campaigns and rallies which took place in the summer of 1885 , as an immediate response to the revelations by the Pall Mall Gazette of the horrors of juvenile prostitution . |
| 24 | There was an overwhelming response to the Curiosities competition in the summer issue . |