Example sentences of "and respond [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In today 's business climate , survival of the fittest means survival of the fastest to predict and respond to the changing market .
2 In contrast to the type of evaluation that assessed by purely quantitative techniques and data , this strategy or range of techniques could investigate and respond to the complex nature of user education .
3 Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies .
4 Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays .
5 The aims of the workshop are to help young people in the South Pacific to understand and respond to the mass media ( TV , video , radio and print ) and to enable them to recognise better quality media programmes .
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