Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as a response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 2 | More concretely , those areas of company law which are best viewed as a response to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power will be examined . |
| 3 | For the ‘ sulking ’ cat , this sign of weakness is being deliberately displayed as a response to its owner 's threats . |
| 4 | The ecology committee of the Russian parliament had demanded the shut-down , but the government 's decision was also seen as a response to the winding-down of Russia 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 5 | The philosopher whose name is always associated with the 1688–9 settlement in England is , of course , John Locke , even though his Second Treatise of Government , which was taken as an apologia for that settlement , was most probably written as a response to the Exclusion crisis of 1679–80 . |
| 6 | The complex definitions of housework standards and routines described in the last chapter are not simply created as a response to the job situation ; they antedate the time of ‘ becoming a housewife ’ . |
| 7 | The founding of the Italian Fascist movement by Mussolini in 1919 , the first election of its members to the Italian parliament two years later and the street violence for which it was known , were primarily intended as a response to the new threat of ‘ Bolshevism ’ . |