Example sentences of "a response to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this is a response to desiccation . |
| 2 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 3 | They reject the reduction of the diversity of black histories , experiences and cultures to a response to racism , not least because this inhibits the productive exploration of the economic , cultural and sexual differentiations within black communities — for example , ‘ positive images ’ tend to privilege middle-class , heterosexual , familial respectability . |
| 4 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 5 | For example , the Functionalist-based theories see crime and delinquency as a response to frustrations arising from lower social position and status . |
| 6 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 7 | Perhaps the real purpose is then a response to fears of a Leviathan in local government . |
| 8 | Soviet interest in foreign technology therefore has not been a response to detente , but to perceptions of internal need , and increases in trade flows have not always coincided with greater political relaxation . |
| 9 | Taking tap water samples from each of the ten water authorities , he packaged them in the form of a consumer product as ‘ a response to privatisation , and to draw attention to contamination in our water supplies . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature . |
| 11 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 12 | However , this attitude can also represent a response to feelings of rejection by his wife who now has other things to occupy her , or an unwillingness to play a full part in the parental role . |
| 13 | The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) has published a report on the environment , in what is seen as a response to environmentalist criticisms of the organization 's emphasis on free trade [ see SAFE report , below , and also EDs 51 , 52 and 55 ] in the run-up to final negotiations in the current " Uruguay round " of trade talks . |
| 14 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 15 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 16 | ‘ No , perhaps not , since it 's usually a response to things lost , or ended , and you still have Jones , ’ Luke conceded cynically . |
| 17 | The system has its drawbacks as a response to school truancy . |
| 18 | The study was not concerned mainly with early retirement , and the information it did collect was directed primarily towards early retirement as a response to redundancy . |
| 19 | While it is significant as a response to globalization , increased co-operation , is not necessarily indicative of integration . |
| 20 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 21 | • Alberto Fava , general manager of Fiat , launched Operazione Valora at Paris , a response to Fiat 's falling domestic market share . |
| 22 | Both these mountainside systems had been developed as a response to communities being forced by hostile forces ( the Masai in the case of the waChagga , and the Nguni in the case of the waTengo ) to live in a restricted area . |
| 23 | A response to treatment ( HBeAg seroconversion and serum HBV-DNA negativity ) was observed in 22 of the 40 patients ( 55% ; 95% confidence interval ( CI ) 40–70% ) . |
| 24 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 25 | Having lived with the passage for years , I am persuaded that it represents — based , as it plainly is , on Aeneid 1 , 341ff. , and 4 — a response to veteris vestigia flammae drastically at odds with Hardy 's response ( which , as we have seen , Pound had apparently not noticed in any case ) . |
| 26 | The lawsuit , originally filed in November 1987 , was a response to Stivoro 's information campaign on the negative effects of passive smoking in the Autumn of 1987 . |
| 27 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 28 | This is because of the widespread development of partial resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics by the gonococcus , due to its evolution as a response to changes in its environment . |
| 29 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |
| 30 | In light of this , it is perhaps worthwhile noting that we have demonstrated recently that the DNA-PK requires DNA breaks in order to become activated efficiently in vitro , suggesting that it might be involved in mediating a response to DNA damage ( 11 ) . |