Example sentences of "as changes [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some clients will identify obvious external factors , such as changes at work , home , or in their personal life . |
| 2 | Changes are usually minor , such as changes to departure times , or some accommodation facilities may be withdrawn and we will do our best to advise you or your travel agent of any such changes . |
| 3 | examine the implications of the proposed change and consider any alternatives , such as changes to the information held on the computer or changes to manual procedures |
| 4 | Females also indicate their enthusiasm by giving out signals such as changes in the shape and colour of their genitals , and possibly a discharge of hormones in their faece or urine . |
| 5 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 6 | We will also use indicators of social and personal quality of life such as changes in life expectancy , literacy rates and educational attainments to give a better measure of progress . |
| 7 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |
| 8 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 9 | As indicated in SP10/91 , the Revenue may have regard to other factors , such as changes in manufacturing methods , pricing policies and so on . |
| 10 | A series of microcosm 'black boxes ' has been used to monitor changes in microbial floras as well as gross effects such as changes in leachate and gases . |
| 11 | The payoffs are interpreted as changes in fitness arising from the contest . |
| 12 | Simply stated , it claimed — on the basis of long-run data on wages and unemployment — that there was a trade-off between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of wages ; and that union bargaining and other influences such as changes in the structure of the labour market — were of secondary importance in in the process of determining the level of wages and , presumably , wage-costs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alan Greenspan , the Fed 's chairman , has defined this as changes in the price level which are too small to have a material effect on the decisions of businesses and households — 2% or less , say . |
| 15 | Indeed , factors such as changes in employment law , in regulations about compulsory schooling , and the introduction of state benefits have very obviously shaped such changes . |
| 16 | Whilst legislative reforms such as changes in the abortion laws and the law governing homosexuality are viewed as essentially liberal measures , we are not to assume therefore that this was indicative of a period of unproblematically increasing sexual liberation . |
| 17 | While professional advisers can , and do , work towards ‘ once only ’ savings such as changes in the prescribing of generic drugs , the real control needed is the introduction of new products only after assessment of the health gain and financial consequences . |
| 18 | On the one hand , data such as notifications by GPs to the Home Office , police arrests for heroin offences , referrals to Detoxification Units , and so on , not only reflect upward and downward trends in heroin use itself , but also external factors such as changes in official policy and availability of street heroin . |
| 19 | What was probably most important to such an audience was not so much the unlikely explanation of a phenomenon as its very mention , reducing fears of the unknown and of apparently inexplicable events such as changes in female physiology during pregnancy . |
| 20 | More generally , as linguistic stability consists in agreement on patterns of variation and on the social functions of the variants , linguistic change will appear as changes in agreement : as older patterns of agreement recede , so new patterns of agreement will emerge , and in the interim stage there may be some apparent randomness ( or lack of agreement , or conflicting patterns ) in the distribution of variants . |
| 21 | It involves an analysis of environmental trends likely to affect sales levels , and a detailed examination of those environmental conditions ( such as changes in people 's life-style , standard of education ( etc ) ) for which specific forecasts have to be constructed . |
| 22 | Are they merely providers , acting as a resource for local communities , responding to needs and demands which are often based on past experience of education or have they a duty to seek ways and means of broadening the role of education into areas with which it is not normally associated such as changes in family and community life , the problems of poverty , inequality , and the general lack of local control over the formal decision-making process ? |
| 23 | By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs . |
| 24 | Thus gall bladder muscle contractions could be recorded as changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure . |
| 25 | This would be mediated via cytoskeletal proteins which may then influence nuclear and cytoplasmic events by as yet undetermined mechanisms such as changes in nuclear and cytoplasmic pores or direct interaction with nuclear matrix . |
| 26 | This can be demonstrated by exploring suitable topics at Key Stage 1 , such as changes in the home , clothes , transport , things that are very close to the child 's own experience . |
| 27 | Other factors such as changes in relative prices and incomes that are not significantly influenced by the formation of a CU , can obscure the effects of a CU upon trade . |