Example sentences of "[adj] in response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain white blood cells do this in response to an infective agent . |
| 2 | Not all α-granules may respond in the same way to secretory stimuli ; for example , Zucker et al ( 1979 ) , who found that over 80 per cent of platelet factor VIII-related antigen was present in the α-granules could only demonstrate the release of 30 per cent of this in response to stimulation with collagen . |
| 3 | She was only like this in response to Lear 's perverted claim : the rest of the play shows that there is no one more loving . |
| 4 | Fewer do this in response to the next question , presumably because it is not so obvious an effect unless the required figures are being directly pointed at . |
| 5 | In particular the researchers are interested in responses to a recent directive concerning the uses and meanings of literacy practices in the writers ' lives . |
| 6 | Halushka et al ( 1977 ) demonstrated that diabetic platelets synthesised greater amounts of prostaglandin E 2 in response to various agonists compared to platelets from matched control subjects . |
| 7 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 8 | The Council 's role was largely superseded by a new top level consultative body , the Rail Council , created in 1979 in response to the Labour government 's promotion of industrial democracy in the nationalized industries . |
| 9 | Endothelial cells and fibroblasts also produce IL-8 in response to IL-1 and TNF-α . |
| 10 | ‘ You reckon ? ’ said the Archdeacon , essaying the demotic in response to Miss Tilley . |
| 11 | Schools and colleges were closed on April 7 in response to the unrest , but on April 12 Mobutu announced large increases in student grants and civil service wages . |
| 12 | In fact the principle of non-interference was invoked by Brezhnev himself after 1975 in response to Western criticisms about human rights violations in the Communist bloc . |
| 13 | Palatine was formed from a group of small regional breweries in 1960 in response to the contemporary brewery ‘ merger boom ’ . |
| 14 | The first Section 29 Order in Wales was granted in southern Snowdonia in September 1984 in response to a damaging proposal for agricultural developments in the LFA . |
| 15 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 16 | Such a cautious approach to the potential of genetic engineering is also to be applauded in the wake of the dilemmas that have been created by the harnessing of nuclear power , the science for which was developed in the 1940s in response to weaponry requirements in the Second World War . |
| 17 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 18 | It was above all in response to this mounting agitation over the land , not least among workers whose rural ties were still significant , that the Bolsheviks devoted more and more attention to the land question . |
| 19 | First of all in response to Miss . |
| 20 | It 's all in response to the drought that 's bringing Africa to its knees . |
| 21 | As tensions increased in Southeast Asia in 1978–9 in response to the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea and the confrontation between China and Vietnam Soviet leaders began instead to favour the less ambitious task of drawing conflict-prone Asia in the détente process . |
| 22 | In the Second Declaration of Havana , issued on 4 February 1962 in response to the suspension of Cuba from the OAS , Castro reminded the Soviet Union that there is more than one interpretation of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 23 | Any shifts in the L curve are therefore likely to be gradual in response to longer-run changes in income or institutional influences on holding money ( such as credit cards and cash machines ) . |
| 24 | Did nudes in the tabloid press proliferate in the 1970s in response to readers ' demands , or were readers ' expectations aroused by the supply , as a marketing device ? |
| 25 | To sum up : to some , uncertain , degree the needs of the elderly at any point in time are not fixed but are malleable in response to policy and environment mental changes . |
| 26 | British education produces a highly qualified elite , but fails 80% of its pupils , say the five academics assembled by Channel 4 in response to increasing concern about standards in education . |
| 27 | The US government issued a mild rebuke on Feb. 4 in response to remarks which had been made by Miyazawa to the Diet budget committee on Feb. 3 , to the effect that the American people " lacked a work ethic " , that " speculative greed " had eroded their competitiveness , and that they had forgotten how " to live by the sweat of their brow " . |
| 28 | About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal . |
| 29 | Military observers , including the C.-in-C. of Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) armed forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , had gone to Tajikistan on Aug. 27-28 in response to a request from Nabiyev to assess the possibilities of deploying CIS peacekeeping forces . |
| 30 | Our view of the Bill has been expressed most clearly by the Government themselves in their White Paper , ’ The Prison Disciplinary System of England and Wales ’ , which was published in 1986 in response to the Prior committee report . |