Example sentences of "could [not/n't] respond to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hurt even more that friends like Tolkien , to whom he had dedicated The Screwtape Letters , could not respond to Lewis 's effusions as ‘ Everyman 's Theologian ’ . |
| 2 | For most other mutant genes that Stern studied in this way , the abnormality in structure could best be explained by supposing that cells could not respond to the prepattern , rather than that the prepattern itself had changed . |
| 3 | After the break between his father and mother , he could not respond to her affection . |
| 4 | What imagination anywhere could not respond to the image of strangers galloping hard on a moonswept night towards such high turrets ? |
| 5 | Since SCOTVEC personnel could not respond to requests from all centres to run staff development events for them , each workshop was developed as a pack of information , examples and activities for participants together with extensive support material so that centres or Regions can themselves organise and run the events . |
| 6 | He smiled again , but Theda could not respond to an overture she felt to be false . |
| 7 | He simply could n't respond to the person she had become . |