Example sentences of "[vb pp] respond to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , 64% of those polled responded to the survey . |
| 2 | This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System . |
| 3 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |
| 4 | As a consequence they pose real problems to the policy maker , practitioner and manager , who are expected to respond to a problem the magnitude and significance of which are open to wide and sometimes conflicting interpretations . |
| 5 | ‘ It is my belief that , without an honest money , Soviet citizens can not be expected to respond to the reforms , as they do not have a meaningful incentive , ’ said Mr Angell . |
| 6 | The European Community is expected to respond to the US move by introducing a carbon tax . |
| 7 | It has been designed to respond to the rapid growth of banking and financial services both within the regions and at national and international level , and the increasing demand from banks , insurance companies , building societies and other financial institutions for relevant graduates . |
| 8 | By and large , however , they argued that the behaviour of the electorate was shaped less by their stance to particular policy issues and more by generalised attitudes and beliefs about the party 's " image " , and they specifically pointed out " how little the mass of voters could be said to respond to the policy alternatives at Westminster in judging the claims of the rival parties " . |
| 9 | Public health physicians propose the technology of health needs assessment as the mechanism by which the purchasing process will be made to respond to the distribution of the population 's needs . |
| 10 | Parents are needed to respond to the overtures of their offspring , to stimulate their interest and to provide a living presence to which they can relate . |
| 11 | Local authorities have had to respond to a wide range of legislation from Brussels and many have received substantial financial assistance , from the EC 's ‘ Structural Funds ’ and other initiatives , for economic development projects ( such as training and infrastructure provision ) within their areas . |
| 12 | London is highly geared to respond to the needs of expatriates from many countries . |
| 13 | The Simonova 's sensors were geared to respond to the presence in her path of any mass approaching planetary proportions . |
| 14 | Furthermore , not everyone who is invited to respond to an admired poem will have any such experience . |
| 15 | She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair . |
| 16 | One even refused to respond to an urgent call from a nurse two days before Mrs Craig died . |
| 17 | They called on the minister in Laurencekirk , who at first refused to respond to the announcement of their arrival , until Boswell sent in his name . |
| 18 | We need to understand the extent to which oppositional practices have , wittingly or unwittingly , shared the assumptions of the dominant state-led strategies that have also attempted to respond to the black presence in British education and society . |
| 19 | At a time when neither the French army nor fiscal arrangements to meet its needs had been sufficiently developed to respond to a new military situation , the only possible response was none the less to call traditional forces together to form an army with which to intercept and , it was hoped , to defeat the English . |
| 20 | Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common . |
| 21 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 22 | A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme . |
| 23 | Such manipulation of answers is less feasible with projective tests where the testee is asked to respond to a highly ambiguous situation and his response is presumed to reflect his personality as well as the situation . |
| 24 | For instance , the panel members in the YPLL study were asked to respond to a number of statements about what they would do if they had a problem . |
| 25 | Health authorities were asked to respond to the data they received and explain to their RHA any " outliers " , that is indicators appearing in the top or bottom l5 per cent of the national league table . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd never wanted to respond to a man before ! ’ |
| 27 | SCOTVEC has therefore sought to put in place provision which can be used in a flexible way to meet the needs of all who will be affected : young people about to take up employment , those seeking to update their skills and employers who wish to ensure that their workforce is well trained to respond to the opportunities and threats of 1992 . |
| 28 | But ‘ before the role and scope of audit can be widened to respond to the needs of ‘ stakeholders ’ in companies , a solution must be found to the financial threat posed by risks to auditing firms arising from litigation in the current legal framework . ’ |
| 29 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 30 | While the type of measuring system just discussed responds to the average rectified value of an alternating quantity , it is customary to describe the magnitudes of alternating quantities in terms of their r.m.s. values . |