Example sentences of "a response to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this is a response to desiccation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The system has its drawbacks as a response to school truancy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While it is significant as a response to globalization , increased co-operation , is not necessarily indicative of integration . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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% ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
| 18 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 19 | Possibly , I mean aggression could be a response to lack of self-confidence you 're quite right . |
| 20 | Merton 's ( 1938 ) attempt to explain crime as a response to anomie — the disjuncture between cultural goals of success and legitimate opportunity structures through which success might be realized — has been reproduced over 110 times , a fact which in itself testifies to the importance of this analysis . |
| 21 | But we have to understand that sects are a response to modernity that works . |
| 22 | Outside the pastoral regions lay the classic cultures of the central tableland — cereals , olives , and vines ; its agrarian history is the history of shifts from one of these crops to another where local needs for food permitted a response to market conditions . |
| 23 | The genesis of employers ' associations , however , was not only as a response to trade union growth and militancy because to some degree it was , in addition , a reaction to economic pressures . |
| 24 | However , I can not condone , as a response to violence , the killing of the person who does that violence . |
| 25 | Hence the geographer usually chooses to classify climate on a vegetational basis , assuming that vegetation is mainly a response to climate . |
| 26 | Some of the depression may be a response to bereavement . |
| 27 | If having babies is partly a response to unemployment , it also becomes one of the causes of continuing unemployment . |
| 28 | For instance , someone who acts out neurotic conflicts by committing crimes like theft or robbery may be able to represent these activities even to himself as a response to material need rather than unconscious compulsion . |
| 29 | A response to evening primrose oil was also reported by Schalin-Karrila et al in a parallel-group study of 12 weeks duration with 25 adult subjects . |
| 30 | Suharto 's advancement of a pro-democratic line was in part a response to pressure from sections of the armed forces ( ABRI ) . |