Example sentences of "respond [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 2 | Borja had earlier responded positively to a letter of Nov. 24 from Fujimori proposing a " friendship , co-operation and integration " pact under the 1942 Rio de Janeiro protocol whose validity Ecuador refused to acknowledge . |
| 3 | Tork , Station Officer for Tel Aviv , always responded immediately to a summons from that office , cancelled whatever appointments he had . |
| 4 | Forty two patients ( Table I ) who had responded satisfactorily to a four to eight week course of elemental diet proceeded to investigation of possible food intolerances. eight had evidence of stricturing on barium radiographs but none had a history suggestive of obstructive episodes . |
| 5 | It is essential to keep good records to pursue or respond effectively to a claim , a matter which is covered in detail in chapter 7 . |
| 6 | He was aware that a captain with a record such as his has a big advantage , since any troops will respond better to a leader they know has been through the fire himself , and so he knew just what he could ask of his bowlers . |
| 7 | He knew that Goodenache would respond better to a woman . |
| 8 | I know from my work with homeless families that such people invariably need help late at night , in the early hours of the morning or at weekends , when it is especially difficult to find a general practitioner who will respond quickly to a call to see someone who has arrived on the doorstep — in my case that means the doorstep of the YMCAs for which I worked . |
| 9 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 10 | Provided a tribe member can recognise an intention that he should respond appropriately to a signal in the simple system , we are happy to regard the signal as linguistically meaningful to him , rather than simply causing or triggering certain behaviour — as was the case with the bees . |
| 11 | This is partly because people , and their pains , do not respond equally to a particular drug . |
| 12 | When it comes to the more subtle realms of responses and sensitivities to homoeopathic remedies , even small strain variations could so change the sensitivity of the species under study that one strain might respond well to a particular remedy while a second , apparently similar strain may not respond at all . |
| 13 | While it is true that a sensitive adult will respond intuitively to a child 's language and make numerous adjustments to his or her own language in a way that will reflect the child 's strengths and weaknesses , it may nevertheless be helpful to make these explicit in a written assessment so that intuitions can be further re fined on the basis of objective information . |
| 14 | But it was obviously impossible to deal with a nation-wide emergency such as lorry-drivers ' strikes , and equally impossible to respond properly to a rash of major disputes all at the same time . |
| 15 | Most people respond better to a positive co-operative position than to a confrontational stance . |
| 16 | Groups of people who feel under threat are unlikely to respond enthusiastically to a researcher with a questionnaire . |
| 17 | Pupils often respond positively to a challenge , and there is the advantage of something completely new . |
| 18 | Respond appropriately to a range of more complex instructions given by a teacher , and give simple instructions . |
| 19 | Level 2 Respond appropriately to a range of more complex instructions given by the teacher , and give simple instructions . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , Preston , Dickinson , and Mackintosh ( 1986 ) have demonstrated that rats given alternate sessions in two contexts can come to respond appropriately to a tone that signals the occurrence of shock when it occurs in one of them and the occurrence of food when it occurs in the other . |
| 21 | Holland 1983 ; Rescorla 1985 ) , a term used to describe the finding that subjects can come to respond appropriately to a CS that is sometimes reinforced and sometimes not according to whether some other event ( the occasion setter ) accompanies the target CS . |
| 22 | This is something only you can judge , but most of the waters I fish respond well to a half-bucket of groundbait and up to a pint of maggots and/or fifty or sixty worms . |
| 23 | These are parasites of the family Dactylogyridae and respond well to a treatment of Sterazin , which is an effective cure for most parasitic crustaceans , gill parasites , lice and internal parasites . |
| 24 | He argued that when a material can undergo viscous flow and also respond elastically to a stress it should be described by a combination of both the Newton and Hooke laws . |
| 25 | He urged the millions of protestors to exercise restraint and respond rationally to a war which can only benefit the enemies of Islam . |
| 26 | The key elements in responding well to a brief from a prospective client is to read it thoroughly , think it through , consider what he actually wants , make a proposal which is sound and creative within his expected budget , present these to him in a clear , unconfused way which you have rehearsed , and finally to give him your proposals in a well written form . |
| 27 | But supporters responded well to a cash appeal and when J. G. Cock , the striker , was sold to Chelsea for £2,500 the continuance of the club in Huddersfield was assured . |
| 28 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 29 | This report describes the case of a patient who was initially diagnosed and treated as having coeliac disease and lymphocytic gastritis but who responded poorly to a gluten free diet . |