Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] sensitive to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The businessman has to be sensitive to the needs of the customer or to the demands of the shareholders . |
| 2 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 3 | One needs to be sensitive to the pressures on those with whom one is negotiating . |
| 4 | We need such data and it needs to be sensitive to regional variations . |
| 5 | Obviously , a publisher must bargain hard , and may have special cause to do so if the property in question has a strong and valuable branding , but , if ever a deal is to be made , the publisher needs to be sensitive to the real commercial worth of his material in the broader context of multimedia development . |
| 6 | Any information system needs to be sensitive to the present and future environment . |
| 7 | The company needs to be sensitive to local preferences and tastes , and such things as company logos should incorporate local preferences . |
| 8 | erm One just needs to be sensitive to , to the issue . |
| 9 | Hazel is one of those unfortunate patients who not only have food intolerance , but also seem to be sensitive to various everyday chemicals as well . |
| 10 | This animal was shown to be sensitive to electricity by its behaviour towards batteries placed in its tank . |
| 11 | It is highly probable that many public library users do not make known unsatisfied demand , and any system which leans heavily on the use of existing stock as a barometer ( as McClellan 's does ) is bound to be sensitive to this criticism . |
| 12 | Two of the deaths occurred in patients known to be sensitive to aspirin . |
| 13 | In this task , known to be sensitive to right hemisphere damage ( Kimura , 1963a ) , subjects were required to report the number of dots that were presented randomly in one or other visual field . |
| 14 | The reverse also seems to be true : the energy plasma appears to be sensitive to psychic and thought forms , so that it can actually move or change shape according to the mind of the observer . |
| 15 | Obviously , whatever plan was developed would have to be sensitive to regional differences , whether in demographic terms , or in incidence of particular illnesses , or local cultural or political values . |
| 16 | You may need to remain nearby in case they do slip , but this can prevent some people from functioning so you will have to be sensitive to their feelings . |
| 17 | For instance , being in the business , and purporting to understand the wider implications , our designs would have to be sensitive to the practicalities and compromises involved in production — whether or not these instruments ever got to that stage . |
| 18 | During the study period three patients were found to be sensitive to the elemental diet formula used to induce remission and a further patient proved to have profound salicylate sensitivity . |
| 19 | They tend to be sensitive to every change in the atmosphere ; they can not get the temperature exactly right . |
| 20 | The results probably show that all subjects an relatively unfamiliar with a serial recall task involving signs and that deaf people tend to be sensitive to the language base of speech coding though they do not have a significant facilitation in overt rehearsal . |
| 21 | If you can accept this concept , you will then be able to understand in principle why some people are predisposed to some illnesses or tend to be sensitive to certain types of dietary changes , groups of food , or nutritional deficiencies . |
| 22 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 23 | For successful work in rural areas , the tutor had to be sensitive to , and well-informed about , both the locality and its people so that a genuine rapport emerged as a basis for mutual confidence and support . |
| 24 | They have to be sensitive to the insecurities and low morale of many people working in education at present . |
| 25 | Nurses should not pry but they need to be sensitive to any cues which indicate a patient 's desire to discuss anxieties . |
| 26 | We need to be sensitive to what seems appropriate . ) |
| 27 | Teachers need to be sensitive to this possibility . |
| 28 | The discretion was for the District Courts to exercise , but they were urged to be sensitive to the interests expressed in the Convention . |
| 29 | In this connection , central government and LEAs were urged to be sensitive to the wishes of some groups to have their daughters educated in single-sex schools . |