Example sentences of "[to-vb] about a change [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite John Smith 's firm establishment as an authoritative and credible alternative Prime Minister , Labour are fooling themselves if they think a change of leader is all that was required to bring about a change of government . |
| 2 | Although this is undoubtedly true , on two occasions during the period covered by this book ( 1660 and 1688 ) an invading army ( one from Scotland , the other from Holland ) had been able to exploit a severe domestic political crisis and widespread popular disaffection in order to bring about a change of political regimes . |
| 3 | The kind of occasion when this injunction might apply would be when a prisoner deliberately fasts to bring about a change in his status , or else to cause the maximum amount of embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 4 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 5 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 6 | Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market . |