Example sentences of "a response to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither he nor the Council was fully aware of the pressures for expansion that were to intensify from 1972 , or of what might be involved in a response to such injunctions as those of the THES to make the influence of the CNAA more widely felt . |
| 2 | Psychologically , as the response is always rewarded when this crucial element is present , the response becomes more and more strongly connected with the relevant cue and extinguished as a response to other cues . |
| 3 | ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . ) |
| 4 | Draining the wetlands — carried out mainly as a response to agricultural pressures — would create deathtraps for marine life and , ironically , also destroy the productivity of the soil . |
| 5 | Until then , I simply have no evidence on which to base a response to individual cases such as Mr. Hall 's . |
| 6 | But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality . |
| 7 | If integration is seen merely as a response to individual needs , then the unequal , offensive and divisive nature of society remains unchallenged . |
| 8 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 9 | Our initial attitude to a moral question , he argues , is a response to moral intuitions , or , as he put it less felicitously , ‘ gut feelings ’ ( 1981 : 4–6 ) . |
| 10 | The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) . |
| 11 | He stated that it was a response to three problems : identification , intent and witnesses ( ibid . , |
| 12 | In the last chapter classical foundationalism was presented as a response to three demands ; those of two regress arguments and those of empiricism . |
| 13 | The orientation here was more " collectivist " and it can be seen as a response to socialist challenges to policies based on political economy and philanthropy . |
| 14 | As a response to popular demands for greater democracy , Habyarimana in November announced plans to abandon one-party rule and set up a review commission , whose brief was to make recommendations on the country 's future political system . |
| 15 | A letter on this topic , a response to some critics , appeared only last month ( Nature , 362 , 212 ; 1993 ) . |
| 16 | Such actions may be perceived as regulation or deregulation and may have economic effects ( as will be discussed in chapter 4 and elsewhere ) , but they may essentially be a response to special interests or to fashions in ideas . |
| 17 | Wage rises were therefore granted not only as a response to disruptive strikes , but also to enable demand to absorb supply . |
| 18 | NP officials , however , claimed that the election was " definitely not " a response to the government 's reform programme but a response to local issues . |
| 19 | The document recognises that informal patronage could be seen as a response to widespread deficiencies in medical education , postgraduate training , appraisal , careers guidance , and appointments procedures . |
| 20 | It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear , and too rapid a response to intellectual fashions could leave institutions with an embarrassing residue of dubious courses , which once installed are difficult to dislodge . |