Example sentences of "not respond to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , if schools could or would not respond to society 's needs , it might be necessary to impose a national core curriculum .
2 But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns .
3 Since SCOTVEC personnel could not respond to requests from all centres to run staff development events for them , each workshop was developed as a pack of information , examples and activities for participants together with extensive support material so that centres or Regions can themselves organise and run the events .
4 Another is pain after stroke that does not respond to narcotics but in some cases is reduced by the opioid antagonist naloxone .
5 He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment .
6 One male patient with chronic antral ulcer did not respond to treatment within the next six months ( H pylori and ulcer persistence ) , and in one female patient a resistent body ulcer was identified as gastric lymphoma .
7 Apart from a very limited number of highly specialist areas of the environment where changes will automatically trigger responses within the enterprise ( e.g. the financial markets , meteorology ) , an enterprise can not respond to changes in its environment unless someone , or some people make(s) a positive effort to transfer information about the changes to the person or persons within the enterprise charged with responding to the changes ( or not , as the case might be ) .
8 The money supply ( MS ) is also exogenous — it is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and does not respond to changes in r or Y.
9 For simplicity , however , it is convenient to assume that the precautionary demand does not respond to changes in interest rates ( that is , it is completely interest-inelastic ) .
10 It hurt even more that friends like Tolkien , to whom he had dedicated The Screwtape Letters , could not respond to Lewis 's effusions as ‘ Everyman 's Theologian ’ .
11 There is one kind of kite that does not respond to paying-out the line(s) and that is the basic two-line stunter .
12 Few interviews , masses of people do not respond to letters and so on , usual dreary story .
13 Some absorb the gas quickly , whereas others circulate it slowly and can not respond to floods of bright light .
14 Still Rachaela did not respond to Mrs Keating 's red rag .
15 dealing with cases where patients do not respond to offers of admission .
16 But these public memories are rigid in organization and inflexible in description ; they do not respond to questions , or contents .
17 So while they are prepared to battle actively against such policy , on principle they do not respond to Appeals .
18 In some cases of paradoxical pain — that is , patients with chronic nociceptive pain which does not respond to morphine — the ratio has been found to be much higher , meaning that lesser quantities of active 6-glucuronide are produced in proportion to the inactive , or even antagonistic , 3-glucuronide .
19 Editor , — David Bowsher defines paradoxical pain as chronic nociceptive pain that does not respond to morphine .
20 Colds do not respond to antibiotics .
21 Whenever possible , patients who do not respond to antibiotics should be screened for resistant strains .
22 The Movement took against him , not so much because he had neglected the bureaucratic niceties , but more because he was ‘ a weedy , conceited , unattractive young man ’ who did not respond to exhortations to join the war effort ( presumably by swapping his camera for a pick and shovel ) .
23 Those patients who did not respond to dilatation treatment were advised to have surgery .
24 Surgery should be undertaken only in those who do not respond to dilatation treatment .
25 The trade unions did not respond to events in a unified way until the summer of 1969 .
26 Did you not respond to orders Richard Richard ?
27 If we are to understand why older people do not respond to situations in more logical , less self-damaging ways , we must try to understand the system of prediction which the individual is using .
28 During the talks the USA acknowledged the environmental concerns of South Pacific countries but did not respond to Forum calls for an immediate and significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions .
29 This ‘ poaching ’ by headhunters — criticised so often by employers on the receiving end — is recognised as a great facility by experienced users of search , one of whom wrote of the value of search consultants in ‘ winkling out talent which may not respond to advertisements ’ .
30 The recent case of a consultant convicted of attempted murder for administering a lethal injection of potassium chloride to a patient in intractable pain has highlighted the issue of pain that , contrary to expectation , does not respond to opiates .
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