Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] changes [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The conference will be held as part of the European summit in Rome next December and the aim will be to agree far-reaching changes to the Community 's constitution to achieve Economic Monetary Union ( EMU ) as soon as possible after 1992 .
2 Allowing for intersubject variability , one night still expect to see marked changes in the histology of the small bowel after infusion of 100 mg of pure peptide .
3 What 's more , after years of growing awareness about the state of the Earth , it seems to me that most governments are still blind to the readiness of their people to accept radical changes in the interests of their children and grandchildren .
4 What we do know , however , is that we were due to finalise proposed changes to the Mountaineering Instructors ' Certificate syllabus at the next meeting .
5 It is , of course , necessary to confirm ulcer diagnosis and healing at endoscopy , and since the expected changes in the healing rate are relatively small compared with changes due to ulcer treatment , it is essential that a large study population be examined to detect appropriate changes in the healing rate .
6 The move was announced as the Soviet Union came under increasing pressure to hold a summit meeting , at which it had been planned to initiate major changes in the organization , as agreed in principle at the June 1990 summit of the Pact [ see p. 37550 ] .
7 This consists of the Auditing Guideline , Communications between Auditors and Regulators under Sections 109 and 180(1) ( q ) of the Financial Services Act 1986 , which was issued in July 1990 ; and Practice Note 3 , Client Assets — Guidance to Auditors of Investment Businesses , issued in December 1990 and which has been amended to reflect recent changes in the rules relating to client money following the issue of The Financial Services ( Client Money ) Regulations 1991 .
8 This information will be used to create positive changes to the way services are assessed and delivered .
9 To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time .
10 Senior Tories pressed Michael Heseltine , the environment secretary , to discuss radical changes to the poll tax .
11 With increasing success at modelling changes in the tropical oceans , oceanographers are now aiming to predict global changes in the world ocean circulation experiment , W O C E for short .
12 For instance , they would be able to monitor day-to-day changes in the growth of crops or forests .
13 PATIENTS , consultants , and family doctors yesterday formed a united front , called the NHS Support Federation , to fight proposed changes in the National Health Service .
14 Judicious negotiators will at this stage look to the future to assess likely changes in the balance of power .
15 Nevertheless high wastage of student learners and the instability of the nursing workforce combined with projections of an increasingly competitive labour market to force major changes on the profession and its recruitment and retention strategies .
16 At the opening of the National Assembly in November , Mwinyi responded to growing demands for a return to multiparty democracy by announcing the appointment of a commission to investigate possible changes to the political system .
17 Then an attempt can be made to examine possible changes to the system and so influence social policy as a result of the first-hand experience of the clients .
18 The 1893 Act was intended , not to effect radical changes in the law , but to codify it , i.e. to put the common law into one statute to which it was easy to refer .
19 We may think here of schools ' attempts to improve buildings and equipment in order to accommodate proposed changes in the content or process of teaching .
20 Finally , it would be more likely to promote positive changes in the quality of life of patients and their families .
21 It has also become apparent that , as well as trying to change teachers ' practices , there must be a determined attempt to make concurrent changes in the school as a whole .
22 For years now , at the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service , we have been working with people who have needed to make dietary changes for the sake of their health .
23 Control systems are those where intelligence can intervene to produce operational changes in the distribution of energy and mass .
24 There is no doubt that this kind of focus is likely to become more common and likely to make major changes in the contributory disciplines themselves .
25 Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way .
26 Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work .
27 An official government report published in July 1991 has concluded that we need to make substantial changes to the typical British diet if we are to reduce some of the major health concerns such as heart disease .
28 After a four-year moratorium the IRB is expected to make sweeping changes in the laws at their meeting in Wellington in April , during the NZRU Centenary celebrations .
29 The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties .
30 But the main difficulty was that if compensation were paid out on this ‘ once for all ’ basis , ‘ it would be exceedingly difficult for any future government ever to make radical changes in the financial provisions , however badly they were working .
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