Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] change in " in BNC.

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1 These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA .
2 The reasons for the apparent change in relative incidence at different sites are poorly understood and there is controversy about whether the increase of cardia cancer represents an absolute increment or whether the apparent increase is related to a decreased incidence of antral tumours .
3 It was a potent stimulator for our technical people , not just for the marginal improvements from our operating experience which would be built into the next plant , but to look for the major change in thinking which alone would put us ahead of the competition .
4 The project of integration with which Brooke-Rose began provided sufficient material for ‘ four average , competent novels ’ ( Brooke-Rose 1977a:134 ) , but it also led to a frustration with available formal strategies which prepared the way for the radical change in direction her oeuvre was to take with Out in 1964 .
5 Hyperparathyroidism does not account , however , for the other changes in extracellular cyclic nucleotide values seen by us .
6 In addition , the unit participated in the preparation of new NACAB training material for the 1988 changes in social security regulations .
7 SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score .
8 This creates major difficulties for the examination of the effects of the change envisaged , but it does provide an explanation for the dramatic changes in policies which occur , most notably , in our case , the movement towards signing .
9 If output could be expanded up to the point unc where price equals marginal cost , there would be an extensive gain in social welfare , namely the shaded area. , Making the simplifying assumptions that there are no income effects and that any effects on the distribution of income are unimportant , this area may stand for the true change in social welfare .
10 Much of the credit for the remarkable change in the attitudes of the Canadian public towards the St Lawrence belugas must go to ecologist Leone Pippard , commonly known as Our Lady of the White Whales .
11 Then they heard — their ears alert for the slightest changes in the grind of the traffic — a car slowing just behind them .
12 Resting gall bladder pressure was the mean pressure recorded over a five minute period immediately before an intravenous bolus of either CCK-8 or bethanechol , and the response was defined as the maximal change in intraluminal pressure recorded during the first five minute period after the bolus .
13 It 's been hailed as the biggest change in social welfare since the birth of the National Health Service .
14 The frequency with which references to rural housing have already been made in this chapter reflects the extent to which the housing market acts as an intermediary between the economic changes in agriculture , described earlier in this book , and the kind of social life which is now to be found in the English countryside .
15 But whatever reservations Moscow may have about the latest changes in Budapest , Mr Gorbachev must be aware that the old party would have been annihilated in next year 's elections .
16 This use of Shakespeare , the central figure of Anglo-Saxon culture , stresses that the poem is not only about the cultural change in Venice , but about that at the heart of our own language and culture also .
17 One feature of the debate about the proposed changes in the structure of the NHS is an increased emphasis upon the measurement of the quality of care provided by the different elements of the health care service .
18 So it is with a creeping dismay that reports have been greeted about the inevitable changes in his way of life .
19 Following our general advice on making notes and the specific suggestions above , try to make a detailed note about the fundamental changes in European society .
20 In fact , it 's Pamina that really grows in this production , from her first encounter with Monostatos ( 'a real pantomime villain' ) , through the cataclysmic change in her relationship with her mother , the Queen of the Night , from blind devotion to ultimate aversion .
21 ROBIN Morrow and William Fullerton will lead the Milk Marketing Board through the coming changes in the dairy industry .
22 After the next change in dynasty , Thierry and Philip of Alsace strengthened their shaky claim to the comital position by attaining for themselves the prestige attached to being the outstanding crusaders of their generation .
23 Non-sexism can only be a utopian or post-revolutionary state arrived at after the massive change in social relations and ideas demanded by an aggressive anti-sexist policy .
24 Such a model facilitates accurate predictions of the average change in charge radii for nuclei .
25 While clearly it is unhistorical to judge Pius XII in the light of the later developments at the Council , it is equally wrong to deny him , and to attribute to the Council , credit for many of the liturgical changes in the Church .
26 ( iii ) From their reading of pre-20th century literature , pupils should be encouraged to identify some of the major changes in English grammar over the centuries , eg the loss — except in some dialects and in religious uses — of thee and thou ; the simplification of the verb system eg from have , hast , hath , to have and has ; the change in the structure of negatives eg from I know not to I do n't know .
27 The Thalassiothrix mat deposits , which are the direct result of surface processes , are therefore clear evidence that surface processes , and not dissolution at depth , controlled many of the major changes in the relative abundance of carbonate and silica during the Neogene at least in the equatorial Pacific .
28 Alongside the theme of the geographical persistence of particular fossils , we have as a corollary , the abruptness of some of the major changes in the history of life .
29 That is one of the major changes in the MacSharry proposals that we intend to secure .
30 We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it .
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