Example sentences of "[verb] and respond to " in BNC.

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1 Each company is given considerable autonomy so it can know and respond to local markets .
2 In all three areas the impact upon the third party of the actions of other actors is beyond the control of the former ; indeed from its perspective it may be of little import whether the behaviour of other States inter se is consensual or coercive , until the degree of coercion becomes such that as a member of the international community it must recognise and respond to an illegal act .
3 All will be disturbed and unhappy to some extent at the loss of familiar surroundings and some will be deeply hurt in their capacity to trust and respond to the people who endeavour to provide substitute homes .
4 Thus evolutionary change in a population of organisms can only track and respond to the changes in the environment , continually being wise after the event .
5 The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class .
6 It 's important that marketing — listening and responding to the needs of others gets a high priority at each and every staff meeting .
7 listen and respond to the presentation or performance of an increasing range of fiction , poetry and plays ;
8 Listen and respond to stories , poems and other material read aloud , expressing opinions informed by what has been read .
9 communicate upwards , as well as downwards and sideways ; listen and respond to information from others ;
10 Furthermore , participants in talk continually listen and respond to the talk of other participants , and in so doing , display their own analyses of what has gone before .
11 On a task requiring the subject to detect and respond to a small gap in one of the sides of a square Kinsbourne ( 1973 ) found concurrent verbalisation to lead to a right hemifield superiority and humming to lead-to a bias in detecting gaps in the left visual hemifield .
12 Changes over time to things that are seen and heard are powerful forms of stimulation for young infants , and the main purpose of the research is to explore systematically infants ' ability to detect and respond to such change .
13 Helper Catechist — in SPRED , the person who befriends a mentally disabled person and assists that person , as an equal , to receive and respond to God 's revelation .
14 This option enables you to inspect and respond to individual task mail .
15 Thus in appraising a particular visual image both similarity and familiarity will affect how aspects such as shape , pattern , colour or subject matter are organized and responded to .
16 Thus it is only by reference to a standard of normality that we can identify and respond to actions such as those of children and the insane .
17 He says : ‘ In the sectors we are targeting , the need is for a highly specialist sales force which can identify and respond to ever-changing demands .
18 Borders Regional Council has sought to listen and to respond to its electorate and has succeeded in drawing up a document that is widely supported in the area .
19 Good marketing means that time will have to be found to listen and respond to what others have to say , time and attention will need to be diverted from other activities .
20 However , events have only moved to the present position as a result of the intransigence of the school 's management , and the reluctance to listen and respond to the concerns of a large number of parents .
21 Despite the hype , Switchboard is very special ; not because of its size , or its range , or its particular achievements but because of the way in which it has endured and grown and responded to a perceived constituency .
22 Because conflict often involves the awareness of being wronged in some way , unresolved past experiences of unfairness , injury or maltreatment can have a powerful effect as we react and respond to more contemporary occurrences .
23 A Service of Reconciliation is an opportunity to remember and to respond to the fact that we are individually and as a body loved by God .
24 I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response .
25 Again these were received and responded to by Mrs Kemp .
26 Plants , then , are alive — sentient — they perceive and respond to the environment .
27 Such research emphasizes the importance of defining the experiences of black and female students as multi-faceted , of documenting how they perceive and respond to racism and sexism within society and education in many different ways .
28 The second part will concentrate on how Balinese perceive and respond to these changes .
29 Citing ‘ the absence of significant interaction ’ between the museum and the mall these two ‘ sites of consumer culture ’ Ms Greenberg condemned ‘ the Western museum 's inability to acknowledge and respond to this new presence ’ , i.e. , the mall , labelling it ‘ one more episode in a history which continues to separate art and life , the past and the present ’ .
30 In contrast to the 12 months taken to draw up the amendments , he allowed a mere six weeks for the councils and people of the Borders to comprehend , communicate and respond to them .
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