Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] response to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Previous work has shown that alcoholics were able to mount an adequate antibody response to pneumococcal polysaccharide antigen .
2 Further , a widespread parish response to famine-level prices was to purchase supplies of wheat or substitute foodstuffs and re-sell them at subsidised prices to the poor .
3 The exaggerated anorectal smooth muscle responses to rectal distension and the attenuated external sphincter response explain why patients with complete supraconal spinal lesions experience uncontrollable reflex defecation , while the persistance of external anal sphincter contraction and the absence of any external anal sphincter relaxation during straining ‘ as if to defecate ’ might explain the difficulty that these patients have in consciously expelling rectal contests .
4 Professor Clark is probably correct in seeing in eighteenth-century mobility , not a development constraint but a " steady but flexible labour response to economic change " which assisted an " orderly progress " towards early industrialisation .
5 And Carter Kustera , at Josh Baer , presents ‘ Based on a True Story ’ , an installation examining distortive media responses to real-life incidents ( until the 27th ) .
6 As such , it can be seen as an adaptive defence response to adverse conditions .
7 There was no immediate US response to Kurdish appeals for assistance .
8 The correct salesperson response to hidden objections is to ask questions in an attempt to uncover their nature .
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