Example sentences of "[noun pl] have responded to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers had responded to a Desert Island Discs competition , in which they had been asked to indicate their eight favourite works , the winner being the reader whose choice was nearest to consensus opinion . |
| 2 | A basic theme focuses on the extent to which uniquely domestic factors have affected a party 's approach to these matters or how far the parties have responded to common stimuli . |
| 3 | Motor manufacturers have responded to the declining fast car market by producing toned-down versions which retain much of the performance while squeezing into a lower insurance bracket . |
| 4 | The polytechnics have responded to the universities ' attempts to recruit CDP members by demanding a merger deadline — probably April 1993 . |
| 5 | Non-oil countries have responded to this problem by producing more energy-efficient machinery ( especially cars ) . |
| 6 | For their part , many NHS trusts have responded to the freedoms they now have to manage their affairs , to improve the position of low paid staff , and to introduce greater flexibility into the provision of services to patients . |
| 7 | These have been used retrospectively by Pissarides ( 1982 ) who showed that the percentage of the 18-year-old cohort gaining two or more A-levels had responded to changes in real permanent income and the ratio of expected earnings of manual workers to university graduates . |
| 8 | More airlines have responded to a campaign to ban wild-caught birds from their flights . |
| 9 | Phillips auctioneers have responded to Sotheby 's rise in buyer 's premium with the following statement , issued on 3 December : ‘ Whilst Phillips do not wish to increase their buyer 's premium , they reserve the right to alter their standard terms and conditions or sale at any time in the future if necessary in order to maintain their competitive position ’ . |
| 10 | Asia 's governments have responded to the war with varying degrees of enthusiasm , discomfort and cynicism . |
| 11 | Montana officials have responded to Mrs Prophet 's ideas of Armageddon like battle-hardened bureaucrats . |
| 12 | A minority of ports had responded to the NTWF strike call , mostly Tillett 's own members at Manchester , Southampton , Swansea and Bristol . |
| 13 | If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance . |
| 14 | Farming comes in for much criticism , largely it appears because farmers have responded to the need to make a livelihood from the land by producing more primary commodities using industrial techniques . |
| 15 | There will be a special emphasis upon the way in which firms have responded to new technology and to altered economic conditions . |
| 16 | This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment . |
| 17 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
| 18 | When asked how they thought patients had responded to the practice becoming a fundholder , 25 ( 71% ) general practitioners replied ‘ neutrally . ’ |
| 19 | Although tumours in 15–20% patients have responded to fluorinated pyrimidines , in particular 5-fluorouracil , there has been no evidence of improved survival . |
| 20 | 22 And in his review of O'Keeffe 's 1924 show , critic Virgil Barker had maintained that O'Keeffe 's emotions were balanced by her intellect : ‘ Miss O'Keeffe 's pictures embody intelligent passionateness. ’ 23 But from the beginning , most critics had responded to her art ( and continued to do so ) primarily in agreement with the position maintained by the Stieglitz circle , a position restated without equivocation by Rosenfeld in 1924 , when he wrote that O'Keeffe was ‘ one who shows no traces of intellectualisation and has a mind born of profoundest feeling . ’ |
| 21 | Some teachers have responded to the confusion by simplifying , and therefore being able to live with , the conflicts and demands of the teacher 's predicament . |
| 22 | He is delighted with the way in which the players have responded to new coach Stewart McKinney , and is hopeful that better times are on the way . |
| 23 | Rosaline chides Berowne , and taxes him with certain conditions he must fulfil if he is to gain her hand ( the Princess and her ladies have responded to the death of the King of France by postponing any further romance for one year ) . |
| 24 | It seems the majority of motorists have responded to the campaign . |
| 25 | Scientists have responded to the challenge of this result : the mechanism considered by von Helden , Gotts and Bowers is the fifth to be put forward . |
| 26 | I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years . |
| 27 | Doubtless the police had responded to my call by sharpening their cutlasses and charging their muskets , she mocked , in readiness for an invasion of Murder Cay ? |
| 28 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 29 | In the 1980s , some egalitarian feminists have responded to political constraints by reviving this approach , and only supporting gradualist , defensive , or ‘ new realist ’ campaigns around , for instance , equal employment opportunities hiring and firing . |
| 30 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |