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

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1 Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo .
2 The role of acid secretion has been investigated in relation to the cephalic phase of the colonic response to food by means of H 2 receptor blockage and continual aspiration of gastric juice , but the cephalic response occurs independently of the presence or absence of acid or the entry of gastric juices into the duodenum .
3 The acute response to nicotine in these chronically treated rats was a significant decrease in gastric secretion .
4 Israeli response to deployment of Moslem militias in southern Lebanon
5 Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November .
6 She showed some response to treatment with supportive measure — namely , oral 20 mg prednisolone daily in a reducing dose and ampicillin .
7 ‘ For every Pharisee our system produces , you will find at least three good Samaritans , ’ she said in a direct response to criticism by Dr Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury .
8 As with public response to Report from Iron Mountain in 1967 ( another well-referenced work ) , there was enormous capital in the implication that the events described just might have really happened .
9 In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising .
10 THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 .
11 Ketamine has been associated with recurring phenomena ( ‘ flashbacks ’ ) , although whether these result from drug induced physiological changes or are a functional response to anxiety in predisposed personalities is still unclear .
12 Acid secretion showed a satisfactory response to pentagastrin in each group with a two to threefold rise over basal values .
13 ‘ The longstanding nature of the difficulties and the poor response to treatment of those difficulties reduces the likelihood that any treatment programme would be successful .
14 Enid 's response to the ‘ Coping with Depression ’ article was very positive , and this is usually predictive of a good response to counselling in the long term ( Fennell and Teasdale , 1987 ) .
15 The feminist response to abortion as a moral problem has been ambivalent .
16 Cool response to temptation from slice of Forbidden Fruit Alison Daniels , in Dublin , gauges reaction to the publication of extracts from a book about a woman 's affair with the former Bishop of Galway
17 The Heads of State meeting , chaired by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev , negotiated a five-year collective security agreement signed by Russia , Armenia , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan , providing for a collective response to aggression against any of its signatories .
18 This capacity to generate the same response to part of a pattern as to the whole of it is one of the merits of network systems ( see chapter 7 ) .
19 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , elected to succeed President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt as the organization 's Chairman for the coming year , said after the summit that Africa should be allowed to develop its own response to pressure for political change .
20 In these letters to Harry he frequently mentions his excessive response to beauty in men , women , and children .
21 Gothin et al , studying six adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and growth failure ( three with Crohn 's disease and three with ulcerative colitis ) , showed a normal sleep related serum growth hormone response in all six but a blunted response to arginine in one patient and to insulin in three patients .
22 This results , however , most probably reflects local response to treatment with the eradication of aneuploid tumour cells in a proportion of carcinomas .
23 In the most positive response to date to South Korean calls for an inter-Korean summit meeting , a North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister , Kang SokChu told reporters in New York on Sept. 17 that President Kim Il Sung hoped to hold such a summit with President Roh Tae Woo , now that the two countries had been admitted to the UN and " recognized as legitimate governments by the international community " .
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