Example sentences of "had responded to the " in BNC.

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1 Already by 14 May , the Roman catholic hierarchy had responded to the pressure with the production and projected distribution of one million copies of a pastoral letter against divorce ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1986 ) .
2 Meanwhile , in the manager 's office at Darlington Brian Little had responded to the club'sfall from grace with a purge during the summer .
3 The Polish and Prussian land owners — Junker and szlachta alike — had responded to the western demand for grain by exploiting the two commodities they had at hand : labour and land .
4 The industry had responded to the great challenge of a whole era of ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ by not only cleaning up minor abuses but by becoming itself an agency of social improvement .
5 In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given .
6 When asked how they thought patients had responded to the practice becoming a fundholder , 25 ( 71% ) general practitioners replied ‘ neutrally . ’
7 The theme of the Standing Committee was how communicators in general , and Christian communicators in particular , had responded to the opportunities created by glasnost .
8 Now another Angevin had responded to the call for help .
9 A minority of ports had responded to the NTWF strike call , mostly Tillett 's own members at Manchester , Southampton , Swansea and Bristol .
10 Earlier , Savary had responded to the question whether a shipment by the owner of the vessel still required a charter party and bill of lading issuance by stating :
11 But with Rabbi Moishe 's encouragement , with advice and co-operation from the Jewish National Fund leading to a visit by one of their emigration experts to answer questions , resolve doubts , fill in forms and outline all the preparatory steps — by summertime fourteen members of the community had responded to the call and committed themselves to going .
12 Several staff had responded to the request for ‘ Dark Mornings ’ training sessions .
13 The mayor had responded to the accusation by dismissing Lewis as " a convicted felon " who would " say anything in court … trying to save his own hide " .
14 The Amir had responded to the campaign by holding elections in June for an interim National Council .
15 The subjects were 36 drivers , 18 of them men , 18 of them women , who had responded to the newspaper advertisement described for Study 1 .
16 And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance .
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