Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have heard Christians give all sorts of response to this , for some will feel that indeed a non-Christian will not attain to eternal life . |
| 2 | This study shows that the motor activity of the normal human oesophagus is not limited to contraction waves in response to swallowing , but that non-deglutitive motility patterns occur in almost all normal gullets . |
| 3 | Rabbits ( and humans for that matter ) blink their eyes in response to an air puff directed towards the cornea . |
| 4 | Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality . |
| 5 | Although traditionally sprinkler systems have been resisted in libraries , it has been shown that modern systems , which open and close individual sprinkler heads in response to temperature rise and fall , would prevent fires developing to the point at which structural collapse would occur , and would restrict water damage to a relatively small area of stack . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , NCVQ is considering the accreditation of ‘ stand-alone ’ units in response to a strong demand . |
| 7 | In short , James faced a concerted campaign of civil disobedience from his Anglican subjects in response to his undermining of the laws protecting the Church of England . |
| 8 | The service was organised by clergy in response to calls from local people who wanted help to cope with their grief . |
| 9 | The Ranfurly Library Service is a charity which helps combat the critical shortage of books in developing countries , by providing carefully selected consignments of books in response to urgent requests from schools , colleges , hospitals and other institutions . |
| 10 | For example , soft tissue sarcomas and lymphomatous masses show a reduction in signal on T2 weighted images in response to treatment , and bone tumours may show a mixed response with persistent areas of low signal remaining and areas of high signal developing within the bone marrow . |
| 11 | Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice 's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods . |
| 12 | However , in the last year or two activity in school libraries and public libraries in particular has required ail the clearinghouses to widen their scope to include information and material from these other sectors in response to enquiries from these sectors . |
| 13 | During the test , the child is required to indicate a choice from a selection of pictures in response to a verbal stimulus . |
| 14 | As with the other tests described in this appendix , the child is required to select , by gesture or eye pointing , one of two pictures in response to a sentence spoken by the examiner . |
| 15 | Experiments show that bees can be trained to come to sugar solutions in response to an artificial magnetic field . |
| 16 | This isolated and reduced preparation could then be used to ask where habituation occurred — that is , which bits of the circuit showed reduced outputs in response to repeated stimulation . |
| 17 | Write some letter shapes in response to speech sounds and letter names . |
| 18 | The acute-phase ( AP ) response is characterized by changes in the blood level of several plasma proteins in response to infection , inflammation or other pathological conditions ( see 1–2 for reviews ) . |
| 19 | THE SOUTH African government is to launch an AIDS education campaign in schools in response to alarming new figures about the spread of the disease . |
| 20 | The political pressures of comprehensive reorganisation of secondary education in Britain , combined with increasing recognition of multilingualism in British schools in response to migration into the UK , led to greater sensitivity to the facts of multi- dialectalism and language variety . |
| 21 | Parents , could , and did , play the system , changing excuses and even changing schools in response to attempts by the school to improve attendance . |
| 22 | We are receiving many worthwhile bids from schools wishing to become technology schools in response to the announcement we made of the availability of capital funds for this purpose . |
| 23 | In Westland Helicopters v. The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation ; the United Arab Emirates ; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ; the State of Qatar ; the Arab Republic of Egypt ; and the Arab British Helicopter Company , Egypt as a dissenting member took other steps in response to what it saw as the wrongful dissolution of the Organisation by the other member States . |
| 24 | Patients were trained in increasing strength and duration of external anal sphincter contractions in response to rectal distension . |
| 25 | On Sept. 30 , China had announced proposed measures to open its markets over a period of six months in response to US demands in August , but these had been rejected by Hills as " unsatisfactory " . |
| 26 | The plasma CCK concentrations in response to infusion of graded doses of CCK-33 were not significantly different between the three experiments . |
| 27 | Increased ability to learn directly from the environment evolved to allow organisms to acquire new information and thus to build up simple programmes of response to such exigencies . |
| 28 | Working-class and middle-class women are satisfied and dissatisfied with housework in equal numbers : different patterns of response to a particular interview question are interesting , but do not affect this basic conclusion . |
| 29 | What happens inside metal plates in response to an applied potential or for that matter what happens to charges inside any material ? |
| 30 | Request : We asked the opposition leader to help with a book entitled ‘ Married To Teacher ’ by writing a few lines in response to the statement : ‘ Being married to a teacher is rather demanding . ’ |