Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] response to " in BNC.

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1 To be sure , this contrast is over-stated , and academic fields have periods of relative stagnation and sudden revolution , just as professional ones can evolve almost without anyone noticing in response to shifts in practice .
2 Further large-scale deforestation is occurring in response to government-sanctioned development projects , many of which involve cash cropping and ranching .
3 As is the case with the parasitic wasp , it seems that sex allocation is occurring in response to environmental variation .
4 Research is focused on what is actually happening in response to the innovation .
5 Gall bladder emptying in response to graded CCK8 stimulation was impaired in five of 11 patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , whereas it was normal in the patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ( p<0.01 ) .
6 In the present study we found that five asymptomatic diabetic patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy had impaired gall bladder emptying in response to graded doses of cholecystokinin 8 .
7 These results closely agree with a study of Stone and coworkers who , using cholesintigraphy , observed a 21% reduction of gall bladder emptying in response to a maximal dose of cholecystokinin 8 in diabetic patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in comparison with patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy .
8 A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients .
9 I 'm writing in response to the letter by Ben Horne ( FACE 18 ) .
10 I am writing in response to your recent article The profession of chemistry by W. Fritsche ( Chem .
11 Whether writing in response to an advertisement or making a general enquiry about work , the following points apply
12 I am writing in response to Mr. John Goldsmith 's letter in the April Pilot in which he claims that our 1:500,000 aeronautical charts suffer from an ‘ appalling lack of clarity ’ and are printed ‘ through blotting paper ’ .
13 I am writing in response to the letter from Gordon Lewis about the Ministry of Defence in your May edition .
14 I AM writing in response to Mr. Gage 's letter in September RW&P in which he says that there is not a proper step between the club rugby and international rugby in England and that there will be too many league matches for top players .
15 I AM writing in response to the letter from Melvyn J. Stigle in SRN No. 207 .
16 The high church Anglican theologian Eric Mascall , writing in response to a report of a Lambeth subcommittee which commented that medieval understandings were based on false biological views , expressed himself thus :
17 I AM writing in response to the recent review in the Echo by Lew Baxter of ‘ Good Rockin' Tonite ’ at the Liverpool Empire .
18 I am writing in response to the reference in ‘ Troon on TV ’ today to the couple from New Orleans .
19 Tallis went outside quickly , alert for the boy , her own heart racing in response to the awful wailing from the woods .
20 Since both were wrong , it is of little practical significance that where the one saw the change stealing upon the scene like a thief in the night , the other envisaged the proletariat oppressed beyond further endurance rising in response to the call to the class war to enforce the change .
21 ‘ Why are you so defensive about that side of your life ? ’ she cut in , a perverse urge to torment him rising in response to the warning note in his voice and the rejection hardening his face .
22 The principal innovation associated with this test ( Berry and Mittler 1984 ) is that , instead of pointing in response to a word or sentence , the child is required to imitate a sentence spoken by the adult .
23 He is speaking in response to their grumbling .
24 I was commenting in response to the objector 's proof in this particular case .
25 Whereas the EAT relies upon a single elicitation strategy ( word naming in response to a picture stimulus ) , the Goldman-Fristoe test ( Goldman and Fristoe 1969 ) sets out to examine a range of different phonemes in both imitative and ‘ conversational ’ contexts .
26 And that 's beginning to show er up in the chemistry of the lakes and streams , some recovery of some lakes are already recovering in response to that reduction of emissions , but not all by any means .
27 The last thing she wanted to do was to encourage their flaring in response to an incautious comment , especially as , since he had got his own way about her not flying out that day , his behaviour had been impeccable .
28 Some workers believe that a process of inhibition takes place which prevents the cell from firing in response to impulses travelling along the pathway from the ineffective eye .
29 Her body was stirring in response to the warmth of his , and Luke was becoming aroused in his turn .
30 For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire .
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