Example sentences of "as a response to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 2 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 3 | This is because of the widespread development of partial resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics by the gonococcus , due to its evolution as a response to changes in its environment . |
| 4 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |
| 5 | Both these mountainside systems had been developed as a response to communities being forced by hostile forces ( the Masai in the case of the waChagga , and the Nguni in the case of the waTengo ) to live in a restricted area . |
| 6 | For example , the Functionalist-based theories see crime and delinquency as a response to frustrations arising from lower social position and status . |
| 7 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 8 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 9 | Surgical procedures may trigger a transient rise in serum CRP as a response to cytokines which are secreted in response to trauma . |
| 10 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 11 | As a response to events and ideas , economic life has become increasingly politicised and the workings of a modern mixed economy effected by a social contract between government , the corporate sector and the trade unions . |