Example sentences of "changes in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In that sense the production and reproduction of uneven development is not just a reflection of changes in the wider economy and its division of labour , it is , as was pointed out in section 2.4 , integral to those changes .
2 Such changes may be associated with equally structural changes in the wider economy and society .
3 The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy , which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects .
4 Part of this ex post forecasting could distinguish the various phases of post-1954 business cycles with respect to their particular characteristics in terms of changes in the sectoral/industrial composition of the UK economy and with respect to the specific features of the different industries ' behaviour in terms of stock movements , capacity utilisation , scrapping of old equipment , new investments , etc .
5 Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law .
6 ‘ It is not industrialisation per se that creates underemployment and marginalisation , but an industrial finance capitalism and advanced technology ( intensive in capital ) which does not permit fundamental changes in the economic structure . ’
7 This heightened awareness is partly the result of changes in the economic climate of the last ten to fifteen years .
8 However , the discussions of commentators like Townsend , Walker , and Phillipson focus primarily on twentieth-century developments , and it is on changes in the economic status of elderly people since 1900 that this chapter will concentrate .
9 Changes in the economic base of society determine shifts in the political and legal superstructure .
10 But beyond the incorporation of women in the revolutionary organizations and the fight against machismo , we will have to wait until we can implement structural changes in the economic and social system .
11 In Central America , we have no other way of achieving women 's emancipation except through revolutionary changes in the economic , political and social system .
12 More general overviews , and interpretations of recent changes in the economic geography of the UK are provided in : Unequal Growth , by Steve Fothergill and Graham Gudgin ( London , Heinemann Educational ; 1982 ) , which focuses on the urban-rural shift in manufacturing ; Spatial Divisions of Labour : Social Structures and the Geography of Production by Doreen Massey ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1984 ) which argues for a spatial divisions of labour approach to uneven development ; and Long Waves of Regional Development by Michael Marshall ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1987 ) which uses a long-wave perspective , but draws also on aspects of the regulationist approach , in an analysis of the last century-and-a-half of uneven development in the UK .
13 As we shall see , many of the controversies and conflicts which permeate contemporary rural life either stem from this fundamental change in the social composition of most villages or are exacerbated by it ; but it is also important to remember that this transformation has been provoked by preceding changes in the economic and social organization of agriculture .
14 The road to an egalitarian society , therefore , lies not so much through the social services , even broadly defined and purposefully designed , but through changes in the economic and political institutions of the country which generate and shape inequality .
15 From this formulation change in society will flow , not from the autonomous actions of individuals acting subjectively but from fundamental and objective changes in the economic base of society .
16 SCOTVEC 's remit to develop , award and accredit vocational education and training means that the Council has a responsibility to ensure that its provision is responsive to changes in the economic environment .
17 Given the substantial changes in the economic , political , and business environment of large firms over the past two decades , a critical factor affecting the relative competitive position of British firms must be the capability of firms to adjust and adapt to major changes in the environments and thereby improve their competitive performance .
18 The influence of technological change on industrial competitiveness will be analysed by relating trends in technology to changes in the economic environment in which they take place .
19 As the French experience following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 indicates , the commitments in programme contracts may be rendered meaningless by major changes in the economic forecasting parameters upon which they are based ( Shirley 1983 : 77–80 ) .
20 The changes in the planned economic reform programme were described by Gaidar as " technical adjustments " .
21 As ordinary , non-handicapped children develop , the three aspects of language are co-ordinated , to a considerable degree , so that changes in one are associated with changes in the other two .
22 Changes in the other sectors of industry were more marked .
23 He has taken the well-established record of annual changes in the average temperature of the northern hemisphere since 1881 , and obtained the best possible fit to this pattern by combining the three external influences : the greenhouse , volcanic and solar effects .
24 It measures the monthly changes in the average level of prices of 350 goods and services purchased by households in the UK .
25 Alan Greenspan , chairman of America 's Federal Reserve , has defined price stability as changes in the average price level which are too small to have a material effect on the decisions of businesses and households .
26 The discussion so far has shown that the structural changes in the rural economy have had important spatial implication .
27 The increasing proportion of farm workers living in tied housing since the war is therefore partly accounted for by these changes in the rural housing market .
28 The relevant pressure groups maintain their vigilance , but during the 1970s the changes in the rural landscape , especially in the lowlands , have become much more visible and have certainly received much more publicity .
29 Changes in the tropospheric circulation will affect planetary wave propagation and hence the temperature variability of the lower stratosphere .
30 As a result , writers have often resorted to ad hoc explanations of changes in the typical characteristics , or confined their explanations to changes in institutional industrial relations variables , as , for example , in accounting for the outbreak of conflict in hitherto peaceful industries .
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