Example sentences of "[prep] response to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Large also proposes to set clear standards and performance measures for all the regulators — numbers of visits to regulated firms , speed of response to complaints and so on — that can be easily monitored by the SIB and by the investing public . |
| 2 | examines both fluctuations over time in employment , hours and productivity and the industrial pattern of response to fluctuations in demand ; |
| 3 | It epitomises many of the characteristics of good soldiering : attention to detail , speed of response to orders , and a sense of pride , and it forges a link with the traditions of the past . |
| 4 | 4 Teachers as the main providers of response to children 's writing need to become better readers . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 7 | They are particularly intercsting because they produce several calls and each call is specific to a particular type of predator : a low grunt in response to eagles , a high chutter in response to snakes like pythons and a rather pure tone in response to leopards . |
| 8 | When they played a low grunt normally given in response to eagles , the majority of the monkeys looked up . |
| 9 | In the upshot , relatively little has happened in the field in response to Haycocks III . |
| 10 | To be sure , this contrast is over-stated , and academic fields have periods of relative stagnation and sudden revolution , just as professional ones can evolve almost without anyone noticing in response to shifts in practice . |
| 11 | Changes may also occur from year to year in response to cycles in rodent populations . |
| 12 | The starting point is Sir Isaac Newton 's discovery of the laws of gravity and his formulation of the laws of motion to explain the movement of bodies in response to forces . |
| 13 | It partly corresponds to the asthenosphere , the plastic-like properties of which permits slow ‘ flow ’ of material in response to forces applied over long periods of time ( Fig. 2.7 ) . |
| 14 | Pemberton also started classes in book-keeping and shorthand , in response to parents answers to a questionnaire . |
| 15 | These parents were initially delighted last year when the local council announced that , in response to parents ' campaigning for a nursery class , all four-year-olds would be offered a school place . |
| 16 | It was natural , however , that the CNAA 's discussions — ; as distinct from its day-to-day validation activities — should focus , in the first half of the 1970s , on the most substantial new developments — either initiated by the CNAA or in response to initiatives elsewhere . |
| 17 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 18 | The 30-year-old winger with second division Rotherham United was able to move his arm and leg in response to commands from doctors at Sheffield 's Royal Hallamshire Hospital , although he was still heavily sedated . |
| 19 | Where the defence arises our courts will act upon the so-called ‘ M'Naghten ’ rules , propounded by the judges in response to questions addressed to them by the House of Lords . |
| 20 | Statements by individuals in response to questions about early retirement also often reflected the dominant official concern . |
| 21 | The first reported case ( Zollinger , 1935 ) was of a woman who could answer " alright " in response to questions immediately after the operation but otherwise could say little more than yes , no , goodbye " , " please " and a few other words . |
| 22 | Figures are shown separately for Interview Style — the rather careful speech used in direct response to the fieldworker 's questions- and for a more spontaneous style not used in response to questions and often not addressing the fieldworker . |
| 23 | Her performance — particularly in response to questions — was not what Derek was used to when viewing such events . |
| 24 | Where the jargon might arise would be perhaps in response to questions from an architect for instance yes . |
| 25 | In response to questions he said politicians should not be able to have a veto on political progress and suggested that the Governments could act ‘ over their heads ’ if they failed to resume talks . |
| 26 | Because the status of women is inextricably linked to a complex politico-economic system , it , and the ideas connected with it , change in response to changes in the system as a whole . |
| 27 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 28 | Some predators , such as tawny owls , eagle owls and buzzards change their diet in response to changes in prey availability ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 29 | Post-Fordism , on the other hand , is characterized by the growth of flexible specialization , which implies a more widely variegated and less standardized set of products , as well as the ability to change the nature of those products in response to changes in the market . |
| 30 | Thus , reversible binding of calmodulin to the channel complex in response to changes in the level of Ca 2+ has the effect of increasing the sensitivity of the channel to small changes in cGMP which may occur during the photoresponse . |