Example sentences of "be responding to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , in fact , you 're responding to an unconscious pull towards that person which has little basis in reality . |
| 2 | Stan , have you any observations to make on , on the way that the industry — I 'm thinking now of hotels particularly — how they 're responding to what is , after all , seems to be a changing market . |
| 3 | I 'm responding to the |
| 4 | Managers will be responding to points made to Acas officials yesterday at a briefing session involving union officers . |
| 5 | She must be responding to her feelings ; the cliffs were overwhelming . |
| 6 | It has emphasised its continued support for Green Belts , although much of the most controversial development is taking place in areas outside them , and appears to be responding to the fears of its backbenchers about the electoral disadvantages of apparently condoning the wholesale ‘ concreting over ’ of southern England . |
| 7 | Children who behave well at school but badly at home may be responding to family tensions , or they may find it easier to accept discipline in the more formal atmosphere of a school . |
| 8 | Hitching contacted John Taylor , Professor of Mathematics at King 's College , London , who suspected that Lewis might be responding to small changes in magnetism . |
| 9 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |
| 10 | When Celia appeared not to be responding to ordinary psychotherapy , the medication she had also initially received had been altered and stepped up . |
| 11 | This , however , is probably unfair on both Moniz and the man whose work he was supposed to be responding to , Jacobsen ( Valenstein 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Things matter if , as themes , they can be seen to be frequently returned to in the documents and , moreover , to be responding to the stated purposes of Pope John in calling the Council . |
| 13 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 14 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 15 | They will be responding to the conditions produced by earlier phases of uneven development and building on the inheritance of previous geographies of earlier divisions of labour and their associated structures of dominance and subordination . |
| 16 | As you do n't seem to be responding to telegrams for reasons best known to yourself , I am writing to say that I am not coming home immediately . |
| 17 | The Regional Council will be responding to the consultation paper and other interested parties are asked to submit their views in writing by 29 January 1993 to : |
| 18 | There is some evidence ( ILEA , Oxfordshire ) that LEAs may also be responding to the view that the arts coordination is more consistently served in advisory services by a single member of staff with cross-arts responsibilities than through the informal cooperation of individual arts subject advisers . |
| 19 | In doing so , however , it appeared to be responding to the urgings of the presidency . |
| 20 | Valer Xheka , chairman of the UITUA central strike committee , appeared to be responding to grassroots pressure from certain groups of workers who were continuing on strike . |
| 21 | Joan can be said to be responding to Carol 's relatively heavy use of Creole by increasing the " Creole feature rating " of her own utterances : thus the two " negotiate a language " which is identifiable as " Creole " or " Patois " by virtue of there being Creole features in the speech of all parties , though to differing degrees . |
| 22 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 23 | Each authority will be responding to its local conditions , the numbers of SSD homes it has kept in reserve to manage the market , the extent to which it has created quasi-independent trusts , and the number of private beds in its locality . |
| 24 | The University will be responding to the perceived needs of students , employers and society generally . |
| 25 | Some magazines are responding to the new hard times by raising prices . |
| 26 | At least some UK suppliers are responding to the energy efficiency challenge and are offering more efficient appliances , such as chamber furnaces etc . |
| 27 | The reality is that the popular committees are not being funded by anyone … rather they are responding to the lack of funding of the community services [ i.e. by the authorities ] by trying to organise their own . |
| 28 | It is , on the whole , more likely that they are responding to the cumulative temperature building up slowly until a threshold has been passed , and they are away . |
| 29 | The police can claim they are responding to the needs of a multicultural society , and the religious leaders become the channel of communication between their community and the state . |
| 30 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |