Example sentences of "the response to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stage of county court procedure was introduced in 1972 and was part of the response to criticism that the county court did not cater adequately for the resolution of small claims . |
| 2 | The response to pruning is a concentrated and redirected burst of growth which will be more readily sustained by good , fertile conditions than can be expected on sandy , barren and infertile soils . |
| 3 | Assessing the response to chemotherapy in oesophageal carcinoma is not easy and is based on data provided by endoscopy , histopathology , and computed tomography . |
| 4 | The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services . |
| 5 | The variety is enormous as is the nature of the response to feminism which they reflect . |
| 6 | Many erroneous assumptions are made both about the nature of cancer in older people and the response to treatment . |
| 7 | Careful studies showed no difference in the prevalence of the diagnostic categories or the response to treatment of amenorrhoea ‘ post-pill ’ as compared with its occurrence ‘ post-condom . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , all of these studies either involved very small numbers or had other serious methodological flaws such as lack of objective criteria over initial recruitment or the response to treatment , or both , and lack of a control group . |
| 9 | As with primary bone tumours , MRI should be regarded as the investigation of choice before surgery for soft tissue sarcoma and is also helpful for monitoring the response to treatment and detecting any recurrence . |
| 10 | Although difficult , an early diagnosis of primary oesophageal lymphoma seems to be vital as the response to treatment is often good . |
| 11 | Subsequently , endosonography and computed tomographic examinations were performed every two or three months to assess the response to treatment or relapse . |
| 12 | The response to treatment was assessed by Wilcoxon signed rank test . |
| 13 | Some predominantly immune-driven diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , and vasculitides such as Behet 's or Wegener 's granulomatosis also show high serum CRP values , and as with Crohn 's disease these may be used to monitor the response to treatment . |
| 14 | The CRP value is a surrogate for direct assessment of cytokine generation , and is valuable in confirming the presence of inflammation , assessing its severity , and monitoring the response to treatment and the development of complications . |
| 15 | The response to treatment is usually rapid and if diarrhoea persists coccidiosis should be considered as a complicating factor . |
| 16 | The final element in the policy making process is the response to developments over which governments have no control . |
| 17 | Endoscopic ultrasound has been considered the best procedure for assessing the preoperative staging of oesophageal carcinoma but few studies have considered its efficacy in evaluating the response to chemo or radiotherapy . |
| 18 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
| 19 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 20 | What was the response to questions ( percentage ) ? 5 . |
| 21 | Then there was the debate at the National Union of Teachers ' conference about the response to government plans for teacher assessment . |
| 22 | There are various reasons for this change — financial economy , production convenience , the emergence of some imaginative designers , and not least the response to user needs . |
| 23 | For clinicians without access to bone densitometry , these results are helpful in showing that the improvement with HRT was similar in both Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis ; in addition , the response to oestrogens was not related to the patients age or the number of postmenopausal years . |
| 24 | During May divisions emerged among Palestinians over the response to Israel 's April offer to hold municipal elections in the occupied territories [ see p. 38885 ] . |
| 25 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 26 | There was no significant difference in the response to HRT between patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease , smokers and non-smokers , and those who had had a hysterectomy and those who had not . |
| 27 | Although long term administration of pentagastrin can stimulate pancreatic growth and enterectomy causes hypergastrinaemia , elegant studies in rats with antrectomy or vagotomy have excluded its involvement in the response to PSBR . |
| 28 | Alternatively , protein kinase C could regulate the turnover or insertion of the histamine H 2 receptor into the membrane and be involved with the effects of long term exposure to gastrin on the response to histamine . |
| 29 | After trying various neurotransmitters the group found that serotonin could potentiate the cell 's response — ie enhance the response to stimulation . |
| 30 | That NBT audiences and critics are out of touch would seem to be borne out by the response to NBT 's recent touring hit Romeo & Juliet . |