Example sentences of "[vb past] in response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time . |
| 2 | Also on an international scale , the price of grain rose in response to demand , and this in turn affected wages . |
| 3 | It was deliberately dismissive , but a scorching anger rose in response to the searingly contemptuous look he gave her . |
| 4 | ‘ Florian is a colleague ! ’ she flared , trying to contend with the wrenching anguish that rose in response to the sexual jealousy that seemed to mock her with its similarity to the emotional sort . |
| 5 | I ca n't tell you any more than that , ’ Melissa added in response to Iris 's lifted eyebrows . |
| 6 | Men came in response to the direct demand for labour . |
| 7 | Mann 's decision to enter into talks came in response to repeated offers by Shekhar 's new government to open a dialogue on Punjab . |
| 8 | The decision to release the hostages came in response to appeals by the Libyan leader Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 9 | The law reportedly came in response to recommendations by the United States authorities that controls on cash transactions similar to those in force in the USA should be adopted by other industrialized countries . |
| 10 | The amendment came in response to criticisms by six of the seven recently created opposition parties that the first version was weighted in favour of the Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , formed under the sponsorship of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya ) . |
| 11 | The attack came in response to massive Azerbaijani shelling of Stepanakert with Grad rockets — proscribed weapons of mass destruction — and attacks against Armenian-populated villages in the north-east . |
| 12 | Menem 's announcement came in response to a request by the World Jewish Congress , some of whose members he had invited to Buenos Aires to witness the signature of the decree . |
| 13 | The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December . |
| 14 | To a considerable extent manufacturing expansion over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century came in response to increasing demand , with overseas markets substantially supplementing the opportunities at home . |
| 15 | The tests in Malaysia came in response to complaints about foreign objects found in previously unopened packets : a fishing hook , a needle , cockroach eggs , rat droppings and various unidentified stains . |
| 16 | The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December . |
| 17 | The emergency talks came in response to four loyalist murders in Belfast last week . |
| 18 | The Welsh Secretary 's announcement came in response to a question from Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards . |
| 19 | The statement came in response to Dragon 's broadside two days ago at Drayton Asia 's ‘ disappointing ’ investment performance . |
| 20 | The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots . |
| 21 | Overwhelmingly , improvements in roads and waterways happened in response to existing economic pressures and prospects . |
| 22 | But like a number of other people before me I turned and I turned in response to totally unnecessary violence . |
| 23 | Yes — there she was , and this time she turned in response to Sophie 's call . |
| 24 | Although in the O'Keefe model there are indeed specific place cells ( and during the 1980s other researchers were able to identify , in monkeys , cells which fired in response to even more precise inputs , such as photographs of particular faces : the concept of a cognitive map is in many ways the precise antithesis of the ‘ cellular alphabet ’ model of behaviour offered by Kandel . |
| 25 | One night several arrived in response to a typical invitation . |
| 26 | Alyssia 's pulses raced in response to his words and their seductive intimacy . |
| 27 | Khrushchev initially claimed ( in a report to the Supreme Soviet on 12 December 1962 ) that by installing the missiles in Cuba he acted in response to a Cuban request ; this has been contradicted not only by statements from Castro , but also by Khrushchev himself . |
| 28 | At the same time land prices soared in response to peasant land hunger , and the option of selling became increasingly attractive . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Cohen ? ’ we asked in response to the ‘ Hello ’ at the other end of the telephone . |
| 30 | It had happened repeatedly , from the short-lived first National Guidance Committee of 1967 to the second NGC established in response to Camp David and suppressed by Ariel Sharon in early 1982 . |