Example sentences of "a [adj] response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these behaviours are part of a vicious circle where a maladaptive response to stress produces more stress . |
| 2 | In the fourth place , I consider the levelling of groundless allegations to be a shameful response to the hospitality I have extended to you . |
| 3 | Consequently , I would like to suggest the following working distinction : learning refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that come about either through direct imitation of others , or as a conditioned response to punishments and rewards ; invention refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that result from internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems ( though acknowledging that such processes are influenced by the individual 's experience ) . |
| 4 | A possible response to receiving a benefit is to cheat ; to fail to return the favour . |
| 5 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 6 | A possible response to the dismissal of contract as a ground of corporate legitimacy is that it pays insufficient attention to the moral significance of contract . |
| 7 | The first attempt by the Arab states to formulate a unified response to the invasion came late on Aug. 3 , over 40 hours after Iraqi troops first crossed into Kuwait . |
| 8 | In a strong response to a consultation paper , the RIBA challenged the Government 's underlying assumption that CCT for architectural services is needed to provide better value to the citizen . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't ! ’ she gasped helplessly , unable to prevent a trembling response to his intimate touch . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards came a Saudi response to Iran 's continuing attempts to teach Riyadh a lesson . |
| 11 | Er I would also point out that erm even though there was a respectable response to the public consultation exercise , I think the number of respondents in total only represented something like seventeen percent of the number of households in the Harrogate and Knaresborough area . |
| 12 | The British played an important part in triggering off a European response to American signals that large-scale aid would be forthcoming only if the Europeans themselves demonstrated an ability to co-operate and to produce a programme for recovery which satisfied American criteria . |
| 13 | ‘ I must admit that I had n't expected such a prompt response to my advertisement . |
| 14 | So , with all the emotional implications of colour , should we even try to encourage a specific response to our work ? |
| 15 | Trouble in school is conceived by the pupils who take part in it both as a natural reaction to being in a classroom confronted by a teacher , and as a specific response to particular offences on the part of the teacher . |
| 16 | The table was a specific response to a limited supply of 3in English oak that has been purchased without any clear purpose . |
| 17 | Others regarded it as a measured response to the Dublin government 's paper proposing ‘ new institutions ’ to satisfy the nationalist aspiration and provide ‘ executive functions for the development of practical north-south co-operation and co-ordination in all areas of mutual benefit . ’ |
| 18 | Far from being a coherent response to the growing problem of environmental degradation , ecology was a product of the new age of specialization ushered in by the rapid expansion of the scientific profession . |
| 19 | In a recent Italian study with first generation anti-hepatitis C virus assays , a complete response to steroid therapy occurred only in autoimmune chronic hepatitis patients negative for anti-hepatitis C virus , as in the cases with both ANA-H and SMA-AA reported here . |
| 20 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 21 | In fact , the party emerged out of working-class experience ; more specifically , it was itself part of a political response to that experience . |
| 22 | A characteristic feature of the response to the major economic depression of the 1930s in most of the ‘ developed ’ countries of the world was the rapid growth of what was termed the ‘ welfare state ’ — which is now under severe attack as a political response to the recession of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 23 | The escalating conflict in Northern Ireland is not simply a function of deprivation and discrimination ( Hewitt , 1981 ; Kovalcheck , 1987 ) , but a political response to increasing state repression . |
| 24 | As has been suggested in this chapter , the relative autonomy of the state from the mode of production means that the jump from tendencies in the economy to a political response to those tendencies is problematic . |
| 25 | In the second place , the relative autonomy of the state from the mode of production means that the jump from tendencies in the economy to a political response to those tendencies is problematic . |
| 26 | As a result , a political response to economic crisis does not arise automatically , but may only emerge with a considerable lag , and its content will be highly variable from polity to polity . |
| 27 | The Spanish railway ‘ crisis ’ was considerably more acute than the British , reflecting the interconnected factors of the lag in forming a political response to economic crisis , and the forces unleashed by Spain 's transition to democracy . |
| 28 | The underlying thesis that the unity of man is natural while the diversity of man in society is cultural is a still prevalent orthodoxy among all Marxists and a qualified orthodoxy among most contemporary anthropologists , including myself , but it originally emerged , in the course of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , as a dialectical response to Hobbes ' ( 1651 ) formula that , in the beginning , man had been like Cain , a wanderer in the wilderness , whose life was one of " continual fear and danger of violent death . |
| 29 | Four days earlier Apple had signed a confidential agreement allowing it to review the object code of Quorum 's Latitude and Equal products , a negotiated response to an earlier Apple demand that Quorum send its Latitude object and source code to Apple 's outside litigation attorneys . |
| 30 | With a blurb like that , it would have been hard for anyone waiting for a British response to the wave of Continental traffic calming not to get excited . |