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

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1 In addition , the response to various secretagogues in terms of which granules are released and to what extent varies .
2 The exemption is a recognition of the desirability of spontaneity in certain circumstances ; where there are sudden events such as the ‘ release of pollutants , a traffic accident , a shipment of nuclear waste or a visit by a political leader , ’ the response to such events must be immediate if it is to be effective , and the giving of notice is in such circumstances not reasonably practicable .
3 Sometimes apparent laziness , or ‘ playing-up ’ can be the response to visual demands that the pupil is having difficulty in coping with .
4 The response to cumulative doses of salbutamol was compared with that to non-cumulative doses of salmeterol .
5 Almost certainly , both the departures from the parabolic profile in the entry length and the response to non-infinitesimal disturbances play a role in the interpretation of this fact .
6 But in Eliot 's poem the response to these commands is uncertain and generally one of failure .
7 The response to these lists , however , has been also quite variable ( fig 2 ) , ranging from some districts supplying information on over 80% of the infants listed to one with an 8% response .
8 They are central to the debate over the provision of legal services and the response to these issues will affect the formulation of policy .
9 The committee 's general conclusion was that the response to these issues must lie in the education of all children , not just of ethnic minority children .
10 Statistics may be required for future reference concerning such aspects as the response to different forms of advertising and a profile of those rejected 5 .
11 This belief is based on the observation of a variety of immune abnormalities , the response to immunosuppressive drugs and the pathology of the lesions .
12 Chittajallu et al were unable to detect a change in the response to stepped infusions of pentagastrin on eradication of H pylori from patients with duodenal ulcer disease , although circulating concentrations of pentagastrin were not measured .
13 This we think we can discount for a number of reasons : first , the magnitude of the risk aversion would need to be rather large for the result ( that an increase in a is good ) to be reversed ( particularly when the reservation value is generally above the mean price ) ; second , subjects were paid proportionately to their total profits over 16 decision periods ( 32 decisions ) so that any risk aversion would already have been significantly averaged out ; third , the subjects appeared to be trying to make as much money out of the experiment as possible ( implying that they were behaving in a risk-neutral fashion ) ; fourth , the majority of the responses to two questions on the questionnaire indicated risk-neutrality .
14 The responses to those questions show just how problematic a concept it is , and makes phrases such as ‘ the map of knowledge ’ begin to seem decidedly simplistic .
15 The accused is guilty of unlawful act manslaughter if the responses to these questions are in the affirmative : " ( 1 ) was the act intentional ? ( 2 ) was it unlawful ? ( 3 ) was it an act which any reasonable person would realise was bound to subject some other human being to the risk of physical harm , albeit not necessarily serious harm ? ( 4 ) was the act the cause of death ? "
16 The responses to these statements were subsequently factor analyzed to reveal teachers ’ latent attitudes towards the Solihull booklet and towards SSE .
17 However , even if induction and abduction are not available here , something quite similar is , namely the moving tentatively to general conclusions on the basis of one 's responses to particular cases , and the testing of general conclusions by how acceptable one finds , in practice , the responses to particular situations which they dictate .
18 One said , without qualification , ‘ The cat shows no response to sweet tastes . ’
19 When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee .
20 Neither he nor the Council was fully aware of the pressures for expansion that were to intensify from 1972 , or of what might be involved in a response to such injunctions as those of the THES to make the influence of the CNAA more widely felt .
21 Psychologically , as the response is always rewarded when this crucial element is present , the response becomes more and more strongly connected with the relevant cue and extinguished as a response to other cues .
22 ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . )
23 Draining the wetlands — carried out mainly as a response to agricultural pressures — would create deathtraps for marine life and , ironically , also destroy the productivity of the soil .
24 Until then , I simply have no evidence on which to base a response to individual cases such as Mr. Hall 's .
25 But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality .
26 If integration is seen merely as a response to individual needs , then the unequal , offensive and divisive nature of society remains unchallenged .
27 Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation .
28 Our initial attitude to a moral question , he argues , is a response to moral intuitions , or , as he put it less felicitously , ‘ gut feelings ’ ( 1981 : 4–6 ) .
29 The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) .
30 He stated that it was a response to three problems : identification , intent and witnesses ( ibid . ,
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