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

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1 Again these changes have been in response to legislation and have taken a number of forms .
2 It has been noted as a common error in response to ratio and proportion questions , but its incidence is much influenced by the numbers in the questions and particularly by context ( Bell , APU ) .
3 Tillie Olsen can warn you about all the ways it can possibly happen , and show , too , how the best writers have gone quiet in response to discouragement and lack of understanding .
4 In recognising this we must not underestimate the contribution made to the industrialising economy by the earlier expansion of manufacturing in response to home and overseas demand .
5 The new fare reductions filed by British Airways , in response to Virgin and People Express , and the matching fares filed by the other big airlines , therefore worried the British government .
6 Compared with the wealth of information already available in the assessment of untreated tumours , relatively little attention has yet been given to the role of MRI in monitoring tumour behaviour in response to treatment and detecting relapse .
7 Because calcium is increased in gastric epithelial cells in response to gastrin and the remodelling pathway of platelet activating factor synthesis is activated by calcium .
8 Another idea thrown up by interferon research has been to make synthetic analogues of the 2',5'-oligoadenylate molecules formed in response to interferon and which activate the nuclease enzyme to break down viral messenger RNA .
9 So that , particularly in response to rowdyism and lawlessness among the young , there was an unusual degree of sympathy towards offenders .
10 Rapid increases in InsP 3 levels occur in olfactory epithelia in response to pyrazine and in taste cells responding to the intensely bitter substance denatonium .
11 However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) .
12 Boris Kozhin , Commander of Ukrainian Naval Forces , also condemned the move as contrary to the Dagomys agreement [ see p. 38925 ] , but claimed that the sailors had acted in response to humiliation and oppression at Russian hands .
13 There is evidence for this both in the slowness of attitude change in response to advertising and in the long duration of memory of successful advertising .
14 To sum up : to some , uncertain , degree the needs of the elderly at any point in time are not fixed but are malleable in response to policy and environment mental changes .
15 Abnormality of the electrical control activity has been shown to occur in association with motion sickness , in patients with idiopathic gastroparesis , unexplained nausea and vomiting , and anorexia nervosa , and in response to vagotomy and to administration of glucagon .
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