Example sentences of "respond to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 2 | The CAB responded to a special need that resulted from the British Nationality Act in 1981 . |
| 3 | [ Ninety-five US-based multi-national companies ( MNC ) , out of a total of 450 contacted , responded to a 1987 mailed questionnaire ] The above findings suggest an ever increasing usage , sophistication and integration of international environmental scanning activities . |
| 4 | A ring receiver worn by a deaf football player responded to a remote control signal from the referee . |
| 5 | The great infectious epidemics responded to a combination of improved sanitation and hygiene , vaccination programmes and antibiotics . |
| 6 | Anatomy of a recession Businesses responded to a ‘ mild downturn ’ with sharp cutbacks in output and investment . |
| 7 | The petrol tanker road crews responded to a man and the dockers in Belfast and Larne equally well . |
| 8 | Often these people , who have responded to a need , are living out their Christian commitment . |
| 9 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 10 | Readers had responded to a Desert Island Discs competition , in which they had been asked to indicate their eight favourite works , the winner being the reader whose choice was nearest to consensus opinion . |
| 11 | All 60 delegates responded to a short self administered questionnaire . |
| 12 | Until recently , Camille would have responded to a rebuke with a display of bestial ferocity . |
| 13 | More than 700 applicants responded to a recent marketing director job ad , underlining the extent to which the recession has hit top management . |
| 14 | In 1899 one York wife responded to a question about the difficulties of providing footwear for her family in the following way : |
| 15 | This year we have been involved in projects in both Hong Kong and Mauritius , while our Waste Management Information Bureau , which draws on the resources of the whole of AEA , has responded to a record number of enquiries during the year . |
| 16 | He is right to draw attention to the divisions on the Labour side of the House , which were made clear by the way in which the House responded to a point that the Leader of the Opposition made yesterday about the so-called unity of the Labour party . |
| 17 | On April 26 an estimated 50,000,000 workers in the Russian Federation responded to a call by the Federation of Independent Russian Trade Unions by joining a one-hour warning strike or holding meetings at their workplaces in protest against falling living standards . |
| 18 | On Oct. 23 police in Colombo clashed with Moslem demonstrators who had responded to a strike call by the Sri Lanka Moslem Congress ( SLMC ) in protest against the massacre . |
| 19 | Lichtiger reported that 11 of 15 patients with severe ulcerative colitis responded to a short course of intravenous ( IV ) cyclosporin ( 4 mg/kg/ day ) followed by oral cyclosporin ( 6–8 mg/kg/ day ) for six months , and that nine of the 11 responders remained in remission during the follow up period . |
| 20 | The Enterprise Centre has responded to a number of requests from departments to provide staff development opportunities that meet ‘ departmental ’ staff training needs . |
| 21 | More airlines have responded to a campaign to ban wild-caught birds from their flights . |
| 22 | The Courtaulds Coatings business responded to a plea for safe paint to be used on cots . |
| 23 | Again the élitism in the department is largely symbolic , for although detectives talk continuously of their special knowledge of the world of ‘ prigs ’ , and despise the uniform branch as ‘ wollies ’ , often it is the uniform ‘ polis ’ who responds to a call and effects the ‘ capture ’ , after which the detective moves in to ‘ squeeze him dry ’ . |
| 24 | The perfect joint responds to a couple taps : any stiffer and you can be in seven sorts of trouble . |
| 25 | This letter written to the Daily Jang , an established Urdu newspaper printed in Britain , shows how the family responds to a man 's promiscuity . |
| 26 | I 've rescued and transformed so many , for it really responds to a little pampering . |
| 27 | But it remains to be seen how Japan 's culture responds to a collapse in asset values . |
| 28 | At the intuitive level anti-perfectionism responds to a widespread distrust of concentrated power and of bureaucracies . |
| 29 | An even more embarrassing version of this is reversed emotional lability , in which the patient responds to a situation with the opposite emotion from normal . |
| 30 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |