Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] response was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal considered that the defendant 's response was out of all proportion to the alleged provocation but on appropriate facts contributory negligence could be relied on as a defence to battery . |
| 2 | McLuhan 's response was to write a series of books about the situation , but any suggestion that this might be reinforcing linear thinking is rapidly dispelled by the nature of his own prose . |
| 3 | The US State Department 's response was that it needed to see the blueprints on European defence before it could think of pouring concrete . |
| 4 | When , in 1978 , after four years with the company , Al Clark presented himself in Branson 's office to announce that he was leaving for a job with better pay and more responsibility , Branson 's response was to pull a water pistol from his desk and start firing at him , grinning broadly all the while . |
| 5 | Branson 's response was to try and cut overheads . |
| 6 | Labour 's response was noticeably muted . |
| 7 | Labour 's response was to blame Mr James Callaghan 's financial orthodoxy — it was his government that introduced cash limits on government spending — and to lurch still further to the Left . |
| 8 | Brusilov 's response was , typically , unconventional . |
| 9 | Karadjordje 's response was to declare : ‘ It is easy for the Sovereign Law of yours to rule in a warm room , behind a table , but let us see tomorrow , when the Turks strike , who will meet them and beat them . |
| 10 | Thesiger 's response was typical of the man who had endured the searing heat , tongue-swelling thirst and bitter , skin-cracking cold of the desert : ‘ God , you must be a couple of pansies ’ , he said . |
| 11 | Aquino 's response was twofold . |
| 12 | However to state that the council 's response was disproportionate is to state a conclusion , without furnishing any explanatory reasoning . |
| 13 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 14 | Despite receiving warm commendation from the Commission , the Committee 's response was cool with further criticism of the proposals on law centres and practice in deprived areas . |
| 15 | The boy 's response was immediate . |
| 16 | Nkrumah 's response was immediate : on 23 November a Ghana — Guinea union was proclaimed , and the new partner was given a credit of £10 million . |
| 17 | Suragai 's response was barely audible . |
| 18 | ‘ Peel 's response was to construct a service with a severe code of discipline and a structure of supervisory ranks designed to ensure strict control of policing and police officers . |
| 19 | That putt took him one in front , but Jimenez 's response was superb . |
| 20 | When told that Amnesty International had made a radical new departure in the choice of his successor , a decision that it was hoped would be regarded as courageous , Ian 's response was to nod . |
| 21 | The prince 's response was to spend £100,000 more than his augmented income . |
| 22 | ( 1 August 1777 ) The Archbishop 's response was to release both Mozart and his father . |
| 23 | His remarks made the press and Minton 's response was sought . |
| 24 | Mrs Whitehouse 's response was again immediate , and she says that she thought that the poem was ‘ like the recrucifixion of Christ , only this time with twentieth-century weapons ’ . |
| 25 | By comparison , Kenneth Baker 's response was bathetic . |
| 26 | Iranian premier Moussavi 's response was to say that Iran was only too ready to help make the referendum possible . |
| 27 | According to Legge , Sibelius 's response was : ‘ Karajan is the only conductor who plays what I meant . ’ |
| 28 | The Northern Irishman , second in the Order of Merit to Olazabal , went round in 66 to Reid 's 67 in the morning and when the American , at the 22nd hole , had his eighth birdie , Rafferty 's response was an eagle three . |
| 29 | ‘ Therefore , I must say that Wedgwood 's response was like a breath of fresh air . |
| 30 | Mohammed Ewangai , introduced on Radio France Internationale on Sept. 1 as a leader of the FLAA , said that the rebels ' response was " clear and simple ; it is war " . |