Example sentences of "in response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two years of taking no action in response to reports of grave and widespread violations in Iraq , the Commission on Human Rights has appointed a Special Rapporteur to investigate the human rights situation there ; another special Rapporteur has been appointed to examine violations committed by Iraqi forces in occupied Kuwait . |
| 2 | The South Korean authorities wrote to AI in response to its appeals for imprisoned artist Hong Song-dam and publisher Chang Ui-gyun . |
| 3 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |
| 4 | There is a chapter which discusses the letters from Germans — ‘ good Germans ’ in the main — which were sent to him in response to his book about the camps . |
| 5 | The general data presented by Cox are undeniable , but interpretation of the data rests on certain assumptions , principally that people act on an individualistic basis rather than as groups , and according to attitudes expressed in the quiet of their homes rather than in response to major events . |
| 6 | As Alan Dukes TD argued in the Dáil in response to the pastoral letter : |
| 7 | Possibly in response to the stimuli given by the bishops ' public statements , the bishops found that local councils were coming to their aid and support in opposing the proposed educational revolution . |
| 8 | ‘ Watch out , Inspector , if you can talk like that in response to one of my brainwaves we 'll have you working here . ’ |
| 9 | Variegated plants will start to make more chlorophyll in their leaves in response to restricted sunlight , and so tend to turn green in the shade . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Cohen ? ’ we asked in response to the ‘ Hello ’ at the other end of the telephone . |
| 11 | Lorca 's attempts at surrealism issued in response to his friend Salvador Dali 's savage criticisms of his lack of modernity in his Gypsy Ballads ( ’ Bound hand and feet to the old poetry , ’ as Dali commented ) . |
| 12 | The book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner 's The Bear , in which McCaslin says ( in response to uncertainty as to what the poem they were discussing meant ) , ‘ He had to talk about something . ’ |
| 13 | The Ranfurly Library Service is a charity which helps combat the critical shortage of books in developing countries , by providing carefully selected consignments of books in response to urgent requests from schools , colleges , hospitals and other institutions . |
| 14 | Unlike classical or demi-caractère ballets today 's romantic ballets have few stereotyped heroes and heroines because they deal with the moods , emotions and actions of one or more individuals in response to their circumstances and the unfolding of the plot . |
| 15 | But in response to this Voltairean jest , the lonely , agonized , perhaps crazed man ‘ made no answer ’ . |
| 16 | Allen Brown looks at how to choose the best DSP engineering tools in response to a fast-developing market |
| 17 | A C program runs on the Archimedes , and controls the playback rate in response to the subject — the ‘ driver ’ of the car — working the brake and accelerator . |
| 18 | It was a blessing that , in response to congratulations on the superb World Championship Regatta at Bled in Yugoslavia three weeks ago , he was able to reply , ‘ Yes … and best of all , the conditions were fair throughout ’ . |
| 19 | Paul Keating , the treasurer in Mr Hawke 's government , told American bankers , in response to their concern about conducting business in Australia : ‘ The pilots ’ federation is not a trade union . |
| 20 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 21 | In fact , the most eye-opening statement came from Lord Hartington in response to a question about Alan Meale , the Labour MP who has proposed legislation to abolish the Jockey Club . |
| 22 | View from City Road , page 25 Telecom price cut : British Telecom is to cut prices on some transatlantic calls by up to 8 per cent in response to competition . |
| 23 | The statement said that Dr Wybran 's murder had been perpetrated ‘ in support of the Muslim Palestinian people … and in response to the generation of ‘ the children of the stone ’ ' . |
| 24 | The killing , it said , was also carried out ‘ in response to the crime of assassination of the martyr , Neman Refat ’ . |
| 25 | The society implemented its scheme ‘ in response to strong consumer demand ’ . |
| 26 | In response to the import quotas , Japanese manufacturers have been rapidly expanding production in the US . |
| 27 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 28 | A spokeswoman for Barclays Bank stressed that British banks had already cut back their lending in response to earlier warnings . |
| 29 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 30 | Defensive strategies , they found , arise in response to : |