Example sentences of "response to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thought that the potters had migrated from Malaga in response to the increasing pressure of the sea blockade of southern Spain by Christian ships . |
| 2 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 3 | In the study which Teresa Hinton and Richard Berthoud made of Money Advice Services , they showed how much the development had been a response to the increasing demands for help at a local level . |
| 4 | Should the entry qualification be to do with difficult behaviour rather than severity , or is required level of care the most important factor ? iii Low expectations and reduced social stimulation from other residents may lead to impaired performance in dementia , hastening the decline iv Segregated units may become stigmatized , and be unattractive to prospective residents and relatives v Staff recruitment may be more difficult , and staff turnover may be higher vi A unit may find itself looking after an increasingly disabled group In response to the increasing numbers of dementia sufferers in every type of service for the elderly , we saw five different ways of dealing with the integration/segregation issue . |
| 5 | He kept his illness private until 10 days ago , when he issued a statement in response to the increasing number of inquiries about his health . |
| 6 | The police response to the increasing number of criminals prepared to use guns , has been to train firearms specialists and make sure they 're available all the time at short notice . |
| 7 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 8 | Hilaire Belloc 's The Servile State , published in 1912 in response to the Liberal social legislation , was a trenchant restatement of the more radical style of liberalism which had long appealed to working people . |
| 9 | Instead , management 's response to the de-skilling effects of the new technology was to introduce a system of job rotation . |
| 10 | His second response to the apparent increase in the number of skilled and semi-skilled workers this century is to challenge the concept of skill implied in these data . |
| 11 | Standing on a cliff , high above the river , watching the colours of the Canyon shift and glow in response to the passing clouds . |
| 12 | The Labour Party 's response to the Spanish Civil War was clearly more humanitarian than political . |
| 13 | The initially strong emphasis on special educational needs ( and the attendant confusion over whether PNP was a special or general needs programme ) gave way to a concentration on curriculum development , mainly in response to the shifting national agenda . |
| 14 | The Iraqi air force attempted little in the way of a co-ordinated response to the allied air assault , and it appeared that Saddam Hussein was intent on preserving his aircraft either for a later stage of the campaign or for the duration of the entire war . |
| 15 | In response to the early activities and enthusiasm of the Attlee Government , the Conservatives mounted little challenge . |
| 16 | The loci controlled the mucosal immune system are likely candidates for investigation , in particular , those that may have the ability to suppress the generation of an effective immune response to the multiple antigens normally present in the intestinal lumen . |
| 17 | In contrast , when he was forced to admit , in early June 1977 , that the trooPs concentrated in response to the UUAC general strike were to be withdrawn as soon as possible , he endeavoured to reassure the public with the remark , ‘ More is being done in the field of SAS-type activities than is realised and this will now be intensified . ’ |
| 18 | But it does look as though the whole business is irretrievably in their hands now — an impression strengthened by the deafening silence in response to the honest and serious disclosures I made . |
| 19 | In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves . |
| 20 | When a complementary wavelength is used the response to the small spot only occurs at the offset of the stimulus . |
| 21 | Jackson also employs both harmonious and dissonant colour choices leading the viewer to discover her own subjectivity in her response to the various combinations . |
| 22 | The finding of HLA associations with severe P. falciparum malaria provided an opportunity to test such a ‘ reverse immunogenetic ’ approach to identifying an immune response to the malarial parasite of protective importance . |
| 23 | Pulses of dissolved silica develop in response to the net rates of sand-grain dissolution and of precipitation of secondary minerals . |
| 24 | American policy was in disarray over the appropriate response to the communist threat in the small South-East Asian state of Laos . |
| 25 | In response to the buoyant demand for GUIs almost all vendors of computer systems now offer such an interface product . |
| 26 | What is the Secretary of State 's response to the overwhelming lack of public confidence shown in every test of public opinion about the Government 's education policy and his stewardship of it ? |
| 27 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , in response to the persistent problems of unemployment in rural areas , the government has increasingly become involved in attempting to stimulate industry in these areas . |
| 29 | The government 's response to the 1981 report of the Property Advisory Group . |
| 30 | The City Action Teams ' ( CATS ) origins lie in the government 's response to the 1981 riots in Liverpool . |