Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of these developments , however , the rate of growth of the environmental movement in Europe remained fairly slow until 1986 when it suddenly accelerated , apparently in response to environmental disasters such as the explosion at the Chernobyl reactor in April of the same year . |
| 2 | The police had arrived now in the shape of a wpc who was talking amiably to the protesters who moved back a little apparently in response to her request . |
| 3 | Apparently in response to an appeal made at the Central American summit held in San José , Costa Rica , in December 1989 [ see p. 37119 ] , the FMLN on Jan. 11 , 1990 , agreed to reopen within 30 days peace talks with the government under the mediation of the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 4 | On May 3 the Cabinet , apparently in response to increasing popular dissatisfaction with the 30-year-old regime , endorsed a proposal from the political bureau of the ruling party , the Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) , that other parties should be allowed to operate . |
| 5 | A state of emergency imposed in the central Gao and Timbuktu regions in July 1990 , apparently in response to a series of attacks by Tuaregs on administrative posts , was extended indefinitely in early August . |
| 6 | The Israeli army issued new orders on Feb. 2 , apparently in response to pressure from Israeli settlers , easing the circumstances under which soldiers in the occupied territories were authorized to open fire . |
| 7 | The European Space Agency ( ESA ) announced on May 26 , apparently in response to financial pressures , that the manned space shuttle Hermes would not be launched until 2005 , if at all . |
| 8 | This was apparently in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling which legalized US government-authorized abductions abroad [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 9 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |
| 10 | Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner , basically in response to the need that various functions be performed . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying necessarily in response to that resolution , but at least in the direction that we were hoping . |
| 12 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 13 | Even using apparently direct measures of morbidity is problematical , as reporting may be different between social groups , especially in response to general questions such as the ‘ limiting longstanding sickness ’ item in the general household survey and 1991 census . |
| 14 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |
| 15 | Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad . |
| 16 | In the 1760's when Wilson was asked to paint Welsh landscape , perhaps in response to the Celtic revival , he was faced with the problem of how to paint bare mountains . |
| 17 | And there are more levels than before ( over 35 ) , perhaps in response to criticism that the original relied too much on arcade spectacle over depth of play . |
| 18 | Roman Catholic organizations shared this experience of diminishing resources , Jewish institutions less so , perhaps in response to the mounting ‘ anti-alien ’ fervour of the first decade of the century . |
| 19 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 20 | Where the jargon might arise would be perhaps in response to questions from an architect for instance yes . |
| 21 | In the excerpts from those reviews that Stieglitz reprinted in the catalogue of her show the following year , he had removed any references they contained to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's essays — obviously in response to a request from O'Keeffe to do so . |
| 22 | Frost-hardening — the process that enables plants to withstand freezing conditions without damage — is a property of cells that develops seasonally in response to climatic factors . |
| 23 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 24 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |
| 25 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 26 | In the second half of 1947 international attitudes towards Franco began to alter but this was less in response to the " changes " he had introduced than because Spain 's strategic value was enhanced by the deterioration of east–west relations . |
| 27 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |
| 28 | It would be wrong to believe that the body clock develops only in response to a rhythmic environment and the effect upon the sleep/wake and feeding rhythms that this produces . |
| 29 | The present trend of setting up courses only in response to staff shortages will be superseded in the future by any forthcoming legal requirement , and so the administration of courses and the rationale behind them will have to change accordingly . |
| 30 | Rich is personal expression and influence we mix pigment not only in response to the subject , but through our mood at the time of painting . |