Example sentences of "response to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for example , the following extracts from recorded conversations , where the responses to an utterance indicate that for participants the utterance carried the implications ( or something like them ) indicated in brackets : ( 25 ) A : I could eat the whole of that cake [ implication : " I compliment you on the cake " ] B : Oh thanks ( 26 ) A : Do you have coffee to go ? [ implication : " Sell me coffee to go if you can " ] B : Cream and sugar ? ( ( starts to pour ) ) ( 27 ) B : Hi John A : How 're you doing ? |
| 2 | Responses to an interview conducted by a stranger , however relaxed and friendly , can never provide a valid picture of the way of life of the subject of the interview . |
| 3 | Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive . |
| 4 | It is illuminating to note the difference between the average response to an icon and that of a member of one of the orthodox churches . |
| 5 | The emotional response in a game , play and in drama is a response to an abstraction , to a ‘ bracketing-off ’ from living , and it can be just as intense — possibly even more intense for , knowing it is a second-order experience , one can ‘ release ’ one 's grieving , for example , in a way one would not do in the actual event . |
| 6 | In this chapter we have argued that emotion in drama is real , but that it is nevertheless a modified version of that same emotion felt in an actual event , for the emotional response in drama is a response to an abstraction . |
| 7 | This development came about in response to an increase in the number of child abuse cases being uncovered and the sensitivity of the issues involved , combined with a widely held view that social workers were ill-prepared to deal with complex cases of this kind . |
| 8 | They responded accordingly — reduced output in response to an increase in σ . |
| 9 | Palestinian activists initiated a re-evaluation of the intifada during June , partly in response to an increase in intra-Palestinian violence . |
| 10 | The Sultan 's endorsement of traditional Moslem values was widely believed to be a response to an increase in social problems , especially unemployment which increased from 3.6 per cent in 1988 to 6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 11 | If we resist the temptation to place the factory system too far back into the eighteenth century and consider the factory mode alongside other prior and parallel methods of manufacturing , it seems hard to deny that there was something of a supply-side response to an increase in demand . |
| 12 | As explained in Chapter 16 , there are four possible sources of monetary growth : ( a ) banks choosing to hold a lower liquidity ratio ( probably in response to an increase in the demand for loans ) ; ( b ) a balance of payments surplus ; ( c ) public sector borrowing ; ( d ) a change in the method of financing the national debt . |
| 13 | Rabbits ( and humans for that matter ) blink their eyes in response to an air puff directed towards the cornea . |
| 14 | For the majority of people the response to an odour is instantaneous , disappearing immediately the odorant is removed . |
| 15 | Soon after their meeting Minton wrote to Martyn Goff , in response to an invitation extended to himself and Jeff Bernard : |
| 16 | Participation in EC RTD programmes is generally via the ‘ calls for proposals ’ process whereby applications are submitted in response to an invitation published in the Official Journal of the European Communities . |
| 17 | In response to an order from Bulgaria Rochdale 's Mainair Sports now offer three fibreglass/Kevlar floats for their Gemini Flash 2 Alpha flexwing . |
| 18 | In May 1688 Ken was urgently summoned to London by Sancroft , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to consult with his fellow bishops in response to an Order in Council requiring them to instruct their clergy to read in Church a Declaration of Indulgence ; under this , Roman Catholics and Dissenters would no longer be required to subscribe to oaths under the Test Acts . |
| 19 | The word is most often heard in response to an order to do something : fetch firewood , haul water , etc . |
| 20 | ‘ unless a defendant is assured that information given in response to an order for disclosure can not and thus will not be used as evidence at his trial for the offences charged , he may well be entitled to refuse to supply the information on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him . |
| 21 | The issue centres upon the response to an order made by Mr. Justice Garland in the early hours of 2 May and the consideration that I gave to that order at a meeting at 4 pm on the same day . |
| 22 | There is indeed a degree of circularity about simple models which explain industrialisation primarily in terms of a mass-production response to an expansion of the home market induced by population growth in favourable circumstances . |
| 23 | In response to an outline of the CNAA 's difficulties the DES officers expressed the view that the difficulty lay with the Committee for Education , ‘ which appeared to take a divergent and insufficiently flexible view ’ on the question of devising course units in common between the BEd and other courses . |
| 24 | V 's response is a denial — the expected response to an accusation — and is in London English : " no I never … |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal confirmed that the defence of provocation was unavailable ; even if D had lost his self-control at the time , it was hardly a sudden and temporary response to an act of the deceased , who was asleep when D struck him . |
| 26 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 27 | This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age . |
| 28 | A REGIONAL director of the Scottish Ambulance Service , Ian Gibson , admitted last night that human error caused an ambulance crew to be sent to the wrong town in response to an emergency call from the family of a dying man . |
| 29 | The Director may withdraw or restrict access to the facilities in response to an offence or a suspected offence against these rules or to protect the services . |
| 30 | Bitterness not only results from our response to an offence ; it can also result from the notion that life has not treated us fairly . |