Example sentences of "response [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Due to lack of response the event has been cancelled .
2 By way of response the Government established the Committee on Ministers ' Powers which reported in 1932 and has come to be known as the Donoughmore Committee ( Donoughmore , 1932 ) .
3 In response the government announced on March 20 that it had transferred money and gold deposits from the New York branch of the Swiss Bank Corporation to the principal bank in the Swiss capital , Berne .
4 In response the government declared on Jan. 11 that it would investigate the allegations contained in the report and publish the results in a White Paper .
5 In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 .
6 In response the union staged as series of stoppages .
7 In response the Society rejected the need to compel local authorities to put out aspects of their legal services to competitive tender .
8 Event and fault-trees can not only define the minimum response the system has to make to ensure a successful outcome follows an initiating event , and indicate where additional , ‘ redundant ’ equipment may be required to ensure this , but they are also valuable in showing up system sensitivities .
9 " Candidates do need firmer guidance and practice in examination techniques as fundamental as reading carefully the examination questions , noting the emphasis given by the wording generally to any particular word or phrase and deciding what particular response the question invites , so that a more discerning and discriminating attitude may be adopted to shaping the material to hand to meet the needs of specific questions . "
10 If you have difficulty doing this , use your listening to ascertain what emotional response the speaker is feeling ; then ask yourself whether you have a relevant emotional experience that you can offer as encouragement to help them express their response .
11 It does not touch it but vibrates its wings : in response the ant opens its jaws , between which the mosquito pushes its proboscis and steals the honey dew .
12 Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon .
13 It should be possible to relate the reader 's personality traits to the kind of response the reader will make to a particular story or information book .
14 In response the Commission had proposed reform of the Structural Funds in a draft regulation ( COM ( 87 ) 376 final/2 ) adopted in June 1988 , based upon four principles : 1 .
15 An appeal for more donations , towards a £720 tender to alter the clubhouse , had so poor a response the project was abandoned despite costs already incurred in taking out quantities .
16 I wonder what kind of response the crowd will give him ?
17 The results of this analysis show that for a well.damped response the phase resistance ( winding + forcing ) must be set at an optimum value which depends on several parameters of the motor and load .
18 Consequently , many added as a rider to their initial response the comment that the reporting accountant should be registered and/or licensed by the Law Society and required to undertake training in solicitors ' accounts .
19 In response the city 's cannons were trained against the Orcs and soon the rock lobbers were silenced .
20 Malaysia was praised for following ’ an independent and realistic' foreign policy course , in which the scheme to neutralise Southeast Asia had evoked ‘ an extensive response the world over ’ .
21 In response the World Bank in September outlined changes which it said took account of the report 's criticisms .
22 In response the health secretary , Virginia Bottomley , promised that she would consider new legislation on compulsory supervision and treatment of mentally ill people in the community .
23 You can imagine the response a member would feel , actually receiving such a gesture .
24 But as an immediate response a security patrol has been introduced to James Way during weekday afternoons and evenings .
25 But the Europeans refused to be convinced by American arguments that the credibility of the overall American guarantee to Europe would in fact be increased if sufficient forces could be deployed to make the the strategy of flexible response a reality .
26 Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved .
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