Example sentences of "to respond to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ministers and officials at the Department of Trade to whom the Palache Report was submitted were less concerned about the inner workings of the film industry than with how to respond to Treasury demands that they work to secure foreign currency . |
| 2 | He had a successful hernia operation but was a regular visitor to Harley Street as additional deep-seated groin trouble failed to respond to treatment . |
| 3 | The 1941 paper from Oxford led to some comments in the press , which included reference to Fleming and to Oxford , but Fleming 's first substantial clinical observation with penicillin appears to have occurred in August 1942 , when a patient , an employee of Fleming 's brother 's optical firm , was failing to respond to treatment for meningitis in St Mary 's Hospital . |
| 4 | But England manager Geoff Cooke was forced to make a dramatic change late last night after Hunter failed to respond to treatment following a soccer injury sustained in club training on Tuesday . |
| 5 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 6 | Since then an association has been found between the carriage of resistant strains and failure to respond to treatment with the corresponding antibiotic . |
| 7 | But they were n't aware of a dressing-room drama as John Muldoon failed to respond to treatment for a hamstring injury . |
| 8 | The injury has failed to respond to treatment and he has decided to retire . |
| 9 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 10 | Never will the Profitboss neglect the customer , never wilt he fail to respond to customer comments , moans and groans . |
| 11 | In truth , this image was never entirely fair , but it is a testament to our ability to respond to customer demand that , today , a visit to any supermarket bakery is likely to offer you the choice and quality to rival that of any traditional bakers . |
| 12 | This means that we have to respond to customer requirements minute by minute . |
| 13 | It may be used , for example , to persuade ; to explain ; to instruct ; to entertain ; to narrate ; to speculate ; to argue a case ; to report ; to describe ; to find out ; to clarify or explore an issue ; to solve a problem ; to interpret ; to summarise ; to evaluate ; to reflect ; to announce ; to criticise and to respond to criticism . |
| 14 | The larger charities — which have recently formed a group known as Research for Health Charities to respond to criticism of the use of animals in experiments — also feel that Wolfson 's stand undermines their attempts to establish a united front . |
| 15 | By the early 1970s the CNAA was in various respects consolidating its position , looking at future developments and beginning to respond to criticism and pressure . |
| 16 | The buyer is not allowed to say more or , indeed , to respond to criticism and defensive statements of the target 's board . |
| 17 | On Friday , August 13 , I was asked by your reporter to respond to criticism of banks by the Consumers ' Association . |
| 18 | A new exchange mechanism had been introduced on Sept. 29 to enable the dong to respond to gold and foreign exchange rate fluctuations on the open market . |
| 19 | A few patients who are admitted may be found to be unfit for anaesthesia , or it may be decided that their condition is unlikely to respond to surgery . |
| 20 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 21 | According to the BR chairman , it was production led and cost conscious , but not motivated to bring income , expenditure and price into an optimum relationship … perhaps most significant of all , it was difficult to respond to government pressure to improve business performance without being able to identify the source and scope of costs incurred in providing uneconomic passenger services for which a revenue support public service obligation ( PSO ) grant is paid ( Reid 1984 : 258 ) . |
| 22 | Or consider the density of trope and implication in the following : ‘ New ’ New Criticism would thus claim to respond to literature 's essential nature in which signifiers are prised utterly free of signifieds , aiming , in its no-holds-barred encounter with the text , for a coherence and validity of response , not objectivity and truth ’ ( Hawkes 's italics ) . |
| 23 | The subsequent assignment of levels of attainment to certain age groups introduces a further layer of control on the ability of schools to respond to diversity . |
| 24 | I think an MP is there to respond to correspondence , and I 'm very surprised that he takes issue with one of our officers because she does n't happen to be the Chief Officer , and I 'm very sad about that . |
| 25 | A report by the US Senate foreign relations committee released on Feb. 6 condemned the UN 's failure to respond to ceasefire violations , and to threats by Moroccan forces to fire on unarmed UN military observers ; the UN peacekeeping mission in the territory was in jeopardy , the report said , because of mismanagement and possible financial irregularities in its US$58,000,000 budget . |
| 26 | Forcing independent gas suppliers to respond to gas leaks reported to them . |
| 27 | Forcing independent gas suppliers to respond to gas leaks reported to them . |
| 28 | Office Management I provides the theoretical framework to allow students to respond to direction and to operate within the necessary constraints of the organisational environment . |
| 29 | Edith is very quick to respond to direction and she got the truth of the part in a flash . |
| 30 | But I am sure that a dynamic system which is flexible enough to respond to congestion as and when it occurs and can cope over time with any land use intensity changes without modification , will be more acceptable to the travelling public than rigid systems . |