Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 2 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 3 | These reasons were given in response to an open question and more than one reason was allowed . |
| 4 | Two opposition groups were formed in response to the constitutional changes . |
| 5 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 6 | The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) . |
| 7 | The root of the problem is located in the culturally inappropriate methods which were adopted in response to this evangelistic and pastoral challenge . |
| 8 | The new movement 's influence was undermined by its manifold divisions : Guevarists , Castroites and Maoists proliferated into further factions as differing positions were adopted in response to the rapid succession of events in the 1960s . |
| 9 | In both 1978 and 1986 the Library Association 's statements were made in response to censorship in a number of public libraries , largely instigated by local authorities ; and the appeal was directed to the local authorities . |
| 10 | In all the schools studied , project awards were made in response to an appropriate set of circumstances and events . |
| 11 | It is , of course , undeniable that they were made in response to events in Mozambique and Angola . |
| 12 | At least some of these errors may be due in part to individual differences in dialect and incorrect pronunciation , but these four examples were produced in response to correctly spoken words in a spelling test . |
| 13 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 14 | The elections originally scheduled for Feb. 16 [ see pp. 38518 ; 38664 ] were postponed in response to opposition calls for polling to take place in May . |
| 15 | Interest rates were raised in response to these problems ( refer to Chapter 12 ) — bank base rates were raised in steps from 7½ per cent in May 1988 to 15 per cent in October 1989 — and mortgage rates followed the interest rate trend . |
| 16 | Individual responses in a class test were compared with responses to the same items presented in an interview : many were found to differ . |
| 17 | These sandwiches offer exotic alternatives to the already extensive sandwich range , and were introduced in response to the recent popularity of speciality breads and the wide appeal of Italian food . |
| 18 | Pretreatment measurements of serum PTHrP , calcium and phosphate , nephrogenous cyclic AMP , tubular threshold for calcium and phosphate ( TmP ) , and the presence of bone metastases were correlated with response to pamidronate . |
| 19 | These teachers , usually female , were recruited in response to advertisements that usually stipulated needlework plus some remedial reading . |
| 20 | In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically . |
| 21 | In the same year Bavaria and Wurttemberg concluded a customs agreement and a Central German Customs Union was formed in response , rather as EFTA was formed in response to the EEC . |
| 22 | It was formed in response to the urban riots in the late 1960s , although there had previously been community activity concentrated on winning historic and architectural recognition for the area . |
| 23 | The company says the Dedicated Systems Business Unit was formed in response to customer demand for additional networking functionality in dedicated systems , which it conceives of as dedicated systems with low system overhead , fast performance , built-in networking , real time response and graphics capabilities . |
| 24 | ( An earlier change had been made on April 25 when Kwon Hwi Hyuk had been appointed as Director of the Environment Agency after his predecessor Huh Nam Hoon was dismissed in response to the contamination of the water supply in Taegu through the dumping of 300 tonnes of phenol , a caustic chemical compound . ) |
| 25 | This package was developed in response to competition from such vendors as Intuit Inc and its ‘ bottom-end ’ product , Quicken ( CI No 2,016 ) . |
| 26 | Silhouette also provides this with their new ‘ Desire ’ label , which was developed in response to ‘ consumer demands for a new series ’ . |
| 27 | It replaces the traditional three-year degree and one-year Law Society Finals course and was developed in response to a Law Society initiative . |
| 28 | Even the deeds of valour , so proudly recorded , only added to her depression as she reminded herself that each was committed in response to yet one more example of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 29 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 30 | Less noticeable phosphorylation of the receptor was seen in response to EGF in liver plasma membranes isolated 24 hours after partial hepatectomy and in TAGH infusion ( Figs 3 and 4 ) . |