Example sentences of "[vb infin] to respond to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er , obviously , you 'll need to give them a briefing , so they can play the character , but to the end of degree , 'cos you 'll need to respond to things that they say , as indeed , you 'll have to back in influencing situation , back in your own department , back in your own ground . |
| 2 | Or consider the density of trope and implication in the following : ‘ New ’ New Criticism would thus claim to respond to literature 's essential nature in which signifiers are prised utterly free of signifieds , aiming , in its no-holds-barred encounter with the text , for a coherence and validity of response , not objectivity and truth ’ ( Hawkes 's italics ) . |
| 3 | A couple of points I 'd like to respond to councillors . |
| 4 | I WOULD like to respond to Andrew Blake 's letter ‘ Testing must continue ’ ( 8/8/93 ) . |
| 5 | Would you like to respond to Jimmy 's question ? |
| 6 | I WOULD like to respond to James Stewart 's letter ( Caterer , 22–28 August ) . |
| 7 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 8 | pointed up the risk that the panel may have to respond to shareholders demands to make the company spend money on more external work : ‘ While most shareholders will act responsibly , anybody who has attended an AGM knows there will always be someone with a bee in his or her bonnet . ’ |
| 9 | We want each police force to produce a charter telling local people , for example , how quickly the police will aim to respond to emergency calls . |
| 10 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 11 | Never will the Profitboss neglect the customer , never wilt he fail to respond to customer comments , moans and groans . |