Example sentences of "[pron] has [be] a shift " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically there has been a shift to , or confirmation of , right-dominated governments for much of the 1980s in West Germany , Britain , USA , Denmark , the Netherlands , Belgium , Canada , and Japan . |
| 2 | Since the 1950s , its composition has altered , in that there has been a shift from the rural informal proletariat to the urban . |
| 3 | As communication networks have improved in the last three decades , there has been a shift away from cattle ranching to grain production . |
| 4 | From a slightly different perspective , there has been a shift in emphasis among some councils towards seeking to influence the wider environments within which they find themselves rather than concentrating on direct service provision . |
| 5 | Consequently , there has been a shift in concern away from whether we will survive financially or socially to how much we can reduce financial and other kinds of uncertainty . |
| 6 | On the basis of these data , there has been a shift in the economy in recent decades . |
| 7 | At the same time that there has been a shift in the size and importance of manufacturing within the economy as a whole , there has also been a transformation in the geography of manufacturing within the country . |
| 8 | Bell , however , offers no direct evidence to substantiate the claim that there has been a shift in demand to services . |
| 9 | However , there has been a shift of semantics , concerning the notion of ‘ prejudice ’ . |
| 10 | In both Britain and the USA there has been a shift towards proportionality associated with increasing harshness of punishment and rising prison populations ( Hudson , 1997 ) . |
| 11 | Since the 1960s , there has been a shift in the management perspective on conflict , from theories which stated : |
| 12 | That is , there has been a shift from realist to postmodernist cinema , in which spectacle comes heavily to dominate narrative . |
| 13 | There has been a shift of employment from manufacturing to service industries . |