Example sentences of "reaction to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 2 | This speech is her shocked reaction to Angelo 's ‘ proposal ’ . |
| 3 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 4 | In reaction to this , one can say that the very way in which the church leaders view the subject is itself revealing of significant mediations between religion , state , and national ideology in the institutions of schooling . |
| 5 | The reaction to this of Saussure , Lévi-Strauss and their followers part and parcel of the modernist reaction to nineteenth-century art and culture . |
| 6 | The reaction to this of Saussure , Lévi-Strauss and their followers part and parcel of the modernist reaction to nineteenth-century art and culture . |
| 7 | The normal reaction to a launch failure or cable break is to lower the nose and regain speed , and then to pull the release twice , hard , to get rid of any remaining cable . |
| 8 | If you develop an allergic reaction to your sunscreen , change it . |
| 9 | REACTION TO CAMP ROUTINE AND RESPONSIBILITIES : Lenny can be trusted to carry to completion any task given to him . |
| 10 | Readers of The Favourite Game will remember Breavman dissecting a frog , which arose out of such early experiences ; they will also remember his tearing up an economics textbook outside a bank on Sherbrooke Street — another reaction to the struggles and disinterest he later recalled . |
| 11 | Whether this is the result of oppressive criticism by his school-teachers or family , or whether it comes from a reaction to the finer-than-fine scholarship visible in some branches of Judaism ( which counts letters and finds significance in the smallest linguistic minutiae ) , is not certain . |
| 12 | In dismay he put aside his tools and set down his reaction to the disaster on paper . |
| 13 | Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations . |
| 14 | No one could fail to understand the Onlooker 's reaction to the tale just unfolded . |
| 15 | Reaction to their two recently-rescued Sam Powell ales , formerly brewed by the Sam Powell Brewery in Newtown , Powys , is also very encouraging , with repeat orders coming in at a good rate . |
| 16 | Thus , classical structuralism , with its cold , formal impersonality , occurs as a reaction to the 1940s existentialist emphasis on the individual ego ; and becomes itself overturned or deconstructed by poststructuralist ‘ playfulness ’ . |
| 17 | He made no secret of his Francophile enthusiasms , in reaction to the earlier domination of American music by Germans , and he was one of the first writers to register the importance of jazz . |
| 18 | Hogg 's tone changed dramatically when announcing official reaction to the number of dismissals — up from 18 to 32 , plus one match abandoned — in the first four weeks of the season . |
| 19 | Mrs Barnett , 35 , suffered acute liver failure after a rare reaction to a drug . |
| 20 | That has been the typically cynical reaction to the appointment of Christopher Haines , a high-flyer from the sugar industry , as the Club 's first ever chief executive . |
| 21 | Many would love to know , for instance , whether there any clocks in the White House which show the time in Moscow , or Warsaw , or Budapest , because people wonder why Mr Bush and Company appear to be falling so far behind in their reaction to the pace of life in those cities . |
| 22 | Or is he really planning to speed up his reaction to Gorbachev and Eastern Europe ? |
| 23 | Markets tumble : The FT-SE 100 index fell 30.5 points to 2,281.6 as a reaction to the 1 per cent increase in base rates . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 25 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 26 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |
| 27 | His response to this rejection is as flat as his reaction to the massive demonstration which Keith has earlier persuaded him to join against the Vietnam War . |
| 28 | Sterling , which came under intense selling pressure on continued reaction to August 's dire trade figures , fell to a low against the German mark at DM3.0081 on Wednesday . |
| 29 | Tony Norman , the Sunderland keeper , also withdrew after suffering a reaction to a hand operation . |
| 30 | Reaction to the latest rise makes it clear that everyone is watching out for another eruption of internal discord on the exchange rate between Sir Alan Walters in Downing Street , and Mr Lawson in the Treasury . |