Example sentences of "[verb] shifted the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent work has shifted the question to that of understanding the varied content of femininities and masculinities , not simply how individuals learn to adopt these identities . |
| 2 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 3 | Finally , in its most recent phase of operation , the agency has shifted the emphasis towards self-help models , where the SDA supports attempts by local communities ( including both the public and private sectors ) to initiate and to effect local economic development programmes . |
| 4 | There have been many claims that Mrs Thatcher has shifted the agenda of British politics . |
| 5 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 6 | Er would you not say that this has shifted the onus of responsibility very much on to the financial institutions , the banks and others who had dealings with Mr Maxwell , and is n't the judge in effect saying in your interpretation er of that , that these institutions er really have got to show they were whiter than white in their dealings and actually went in and investigated him thoroughly ? |
| 7 | Now , the government has shifted the focus of curriculum planning from availability ( the options system ) to entitlement , and has unwittingly ensured ( by filling most of the time available with the statutory curriculum ) that the dimensions , skills and themes of this entitlement can be met most easily inside the foundation subjects , and not outside them . |
| 8 | Whilst national debate has shifted the focus of urban regeneration policy away from the narrowly defined goals of physical development , the extension of its boundaries has forced MDC to confront the issues of jobs , training and social housing provision , although MDC would argue that these objectives were always part of its long-term agenda . |
| 9 | It is just that , since the law has shifted the focus from a disaggregate control to a central control , the question naturally raises itself . |
| 10 | Last week 's meeting left the crucial question of burden of proof open — a fact which may have shifted the odds in favour of the would-be banners . |
| 11 | The chances are that in an adult novel — certainly in Masefield 's sea-stories — this kind of instant personal illumination would have been avoided : the alternative , an allusive type of dialogue , would have shifted the emphasis from what is really authorial statement to an implied point of character . |
| 12 | The civil servants belatedly regretted their refusal to set up contributory machinery which , though costly in the short run , would have shifted the cost of future changes in the scheme onto the contributors . |
| 13 | For the first half of the fifteenth century , Gascony was under less pressure , probably because Henry V 's campaigns had shifted the bulk of military activity to northern France , but even so war had a serious effect on wine exports . |
| 14 | The appointment of Oleg Lobov , a former construction engineer and close friend of Mr Yeltsin , as a deputy prime minister responsible for the economy had shifted the balance of power within the government towards the Gosplan-types , who favour a return to central planning and tend to dismiss budget deficits as no more than an accountant 's fancy . |
| 15 | This study will investigate how two local education authorities have shifted the emphasis of their multicultural policies towards antiracism . |