Example sentences of "response to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Residual gall bladder volume ( V r e s in ml ) was defined as the resulting volume after maximum response to a test teal .
2 On Jan. 14 , in response to a law suit brought by a West Bank resident , an Israeli high court judge found this to be " blatant discrimination " and ordered the military authorities to begin distribution of gas masks to Palestinians .
3 It replaces the traditional three-year degree and one-year Law Society Finals course and was developed in response to a Law Society initiative .
4 In their experience this is a favourable response to a campaign like this .
5 The decision was taken in response to a campaign by Greenpeace against the international trade in waste products and in the wake of a scandal involving the illegal importation of hospital waste from Germany [ see ED 62 ] .
6 ‘ Mud ! ’ she muttered , Meredith realised not to her but in response to a thought triggered by the weather and important to the speaker .
7 Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Army and former military dictator , ordered the Army to step down from a state of full alert on Sept. 24 in response to a telephone call from President Patricio Aylwin Azócar .
8 There was an overflow attendance of about 1,000 people at Trinity College in response to a plea from a Dublin housewife , Susan McHugh , for people to show their disgust at the murder of Warrington toddler , Johnathan Ball .
9 By the end of the week the concern may be to assess a new approach to the pay round in response to a union proposal .
10 … ( 8 ) A statement by a person in response to a requirement imposed by virtue of this section may only be used in evidence against him — ( a ) on a prosecution for an offence under subsection ( 14 ) below ; or ( b ) on a prosecution for some other offence where in giving evidence he makes a statement inconsistent with it .
11 True it is that ‘ a statement ’ by a person in response to a requirement under the section may only be used for one or other of the specified purposes , but there is no restriction upon the use by the prosecution of incriminating information or evidence obtained as a result of such a statement .
12 By section 2(8) a statement by a person in response to a requirement imposed under the section may only be used in evidence against him in proceedings for making a false or misleading statement or in proceedings for some other offence where in giving evidence he makes an inconsistent statement .
13 Under the Act of 1987 the privilege against self-incrimination becomes unnecessary because a statement made in response to a requirement under the Act can not be used in evidence in criminal proceedings .
14 One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand .
15 This was in part the result of research in the archives of the Defence Agency in Tokyo , and partly a response to a compensation suit filed in a Tokyo District Court in December by three former " comfort women " .
16 The spread ratio can be adjusted to allow for this differential response to a change in the level of market prices .
17 Therefore if a firm plays Cournot , it believes rival firms will not change output in response to a change in hence , the slope of the inverse demand function .
18 For example , in the two-period model described in the previous section it would seem likely that if aggregate demand became more volatile firms would become much more reluctant to agree to set prices two periods in advance , and so perhaps they would set prices only one period in advance : the nature of price rigidity would change in response to a change in the economic environment .
19 This adds a further regulator to receptor-matrix interaction and implies that specific receptor expression may be influenced by nuclear events or in response to a change in matrix .
20 The extent to which isostatic compensation occurs regionally through flexure , rather than locally , depends on the flexural rigidity of the lithosphere , a property which indicates its resistance to bending in response to a change in load .
21 Such a slope form has been variously attributed to the effects of lava flows emitted from the summit crater , the changing angle of slope stability in response to a change in the particle-size characteristics of the tephra ejected , and the effects of slumping .
22 For a people who pride themselves on their love of animals , and considering the age-old human dependence on animals for food and work and as pets , it seems strange that a college to train veterinary surgeons in this country was only established two hundred years ago in response to a plan proposed by a Frenchman .
23 Minneapolis-based Network Systems Corp cut the price on its 6600 single-board router products by as much as 38% for some models : prices will now range from $5,000 to $17,000 , and the cuts are in response to a price cut by a competing company and due to ‘ tremendous improvements in manufacturing efficiency ; ’ 3Com Corp has recently slashed the prices for its routers .
24 He may , however , serve a counter-notice in response to a landlord 's notice under s25 of that Act irrespective of the length of his tenancy .
25 As with the other tests described in this appendix , the child is required to select , by gesture or eye pointing , one of two pictures in response to a sentence spoken by the examiner .
26 If you have difficult or embarrassing questions to ask — about an unfavourable response to a reference , for example — leave it until the latter part of the interview when you have built up a reasonable rapport with the interviewee .
27 Thirdly , the improvement in peristaltic amplitudes was associated with a significant increase in the duration of contraction raising the possibility that it simply reflected a response to a degree of obstruction at the level of the lower oesophageal sphincter .
28 ( vi ) Pupils should be asked to write in response to a range of well chosen stories , poems , plays or television programmes .
29 The CD industry might provide 230 jobs in Swindon , but judging by the response to a poll on local radio , most people would like to see prices lowered .
30 Police investigating the IRA firebomb blitz at the Gateshead MetroCentre ten days ago say they are pleased by the response to a weekend appeal to shoppers for information .
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