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

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1 The acute response to nicotine in these chronically treated rats was a significant decrease in gastric secretion .
2 The role of acid secretion has been investigated in relation to the cephalic phase of the colonic response to food by means of H 2 receptor blockage and continual aspiration of gastric juice , but the cephalic response occurs independently of the presence or absence of acid or the entry of gastric juices into the duodenum .
3 THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 .
4 ‘ The longstanding nature of the difficulties and the poor response to treatment of those difficulties reduces the likelihood that any treatment programme would be successful .
5 The feminist response to abortion as a moral problem has been ambivalent .
6 This capacity to generate the same response to part of a pattern as to the whole of it is one of the merits of network systems ( see chapter 7 ) .
7 ‘ For every Pharisee our system produces , you will find at least three good Samaritans , ’ she said in a direct response to criticism by Dr Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury .
8 Ketamine has been associated with recurring phenomena ( ‘ flashbacks ’ ) , although whether these result from drug induced physiological changes or are a functional response to anxiety in predisposed personalities is still unclear .
9 Acid secretion showed a satisfactory response to pentagastrin in each group with a two to threefold rise over basal values .
10 Enid 's response to the ‘ Coping with Depression ’ article was very positive , and this is usually predictive of a good response to counselling in the long term ( Fennell and Teasdale , 1987 ) .
11 The Heads of State meeting , chaired by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev , negotiated a five-year collective security agreement signed by Russia , Armenia , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan , providing for a collective response to aggression against any of its signatories .
12 Gothin et al , studying six adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and growth failure ( three with Crohn 's disease and three with ulcerative colitis ) , showed a normal sleep related serum growth hormone response in all six but a blunted response to arginine in one patient and to insulin in three patients .
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