Example sentences of "responsive to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Tenderly responsive to the self-deceptions of others , he was unfortunately too well able to understand his own . |
2 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
3 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
4 | It is why I believe the Labour Party must be bold in demonstrating our commitment to enhance and extend individual freedom by building a society which is dynamic and responsive to the aspirations of all our people . |
5 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
6 | The even more extraordinary notion , that clients ' opinions could be used to reshape social work practice into a more effective intervention , and that social policy itself could be responsive to the views of its recipients , has taken even longer to achieve respectability amongst social commentators . |
7 | There are also many active individual members , deeply dissatisfied with the record of recent Labour Cabinets , who are determined to ensure that any future Labour Government shall carry out socialist policies and be responsive to the views of active party members . |
8 | How to make government responsive to the choices of those it was expected to cater to ? |
9 | This brings him back to another of Mr Major 's weekend promises , to give people more of a stake in their local administration : ‘ If they are going to bring local government closer to people , it has got to be more responsive to the wishes of people , and less to the wishes of central Government . |
10 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |
11 | Visby 's compromise was regarded by the developing nations as responsive to the complaints of maritime carriers . |
12 | ( 5 ) Because of the interdependence of process and content , the curriculum developments to be favoured are those which synchronise changes in focus with changes in activities and are responsive to the effects of the interplay between them . |
13 | In comparison , Roman law had shown itself flexible and responsive to the interests of creditors . |
14 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
15 | However , in the terms of the theory of the capitalist global system elaborated here , apart from those directly or indirectly responsive to the interests of the TNCs as expressed by the transnational capitalist class , their transnational practices are dis ’ tinctly marginal . |
16 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
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18 | Given these conditions of campaigning it is not surprising that when they get to Washington legislators are even more inclined towards individualistic behaviour than before , and even less responsive to the appeals of party leaders and presidents . |
19 | However , the increase in legislation and in consumer power have altered the balance so that schools , if they are to survive and be effective , must be sensitive and responsive to the demands of the external environment . |
20 | In principle , of course , it also implies an independent bargaining role of government and the state , in which it is not solely responsive to the demands of particular dominant interests . |
21 | The chitinous external skeleton seems to be particularly responsive to the demands of evolution . |
22 | The idea is supported by several Vice-chancellors and Directors of polytechnics , and the government is attracted to vouchers because such a system would encourage competition among higher education institutions , making them more responsive to the demands of students . |
23 | Our aim will be to give tenants a choice of landlord wherever possible , and make management of both council and housing association stock more responsive to the needs of tenants . |
24 | — make a special effort in the coming year to show themselves responsive to the needs of industry , both in terms of collaboration in research and development , and the provision of well-trained and well-motivated graduates for recruitment to industry . |
25 | The White Paper justification for the ‘ delegation ’ of ‘ as much power and responsibility as possible … to local level ’ was to make the NHS ‘ more responsive to the needs of patients ’ ( para 1.9 ) . |
26 | This will enable the Government to contract with a range of different organisations to provide a careers service which is more flexible and more responsive to the needs of local people and local employers . |
27 | But the peace-tax issue is itself only one small part of a much broader campaign involving peace environmental and community groups to try to make our somewhat outmoded decision-making structures more responsive to the needs of wider constituencies than those which for the most part are represented by our conventional political institutions . |
28 | YTS has been a major provider of new opportunities and through its funding mechanism , its special assessment and age exclusions , and its provision of special equipment and services , it has shown itself to be responsive to the needs of very many young people with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
29 | These moves have had some success and adult education is probably now more open , more flexible and more responsive to the needs of the whole community than it was then . |
30 | Tendring District Council wants to be responsive to the needs of residents and to work in partnership with them . |