Example sentences of "[to-vb] changes [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way of studying the effects of changing agricultural practices on groundwater is to drill and redrill sites at intervals of several years to observe changes in the vertical profile of nitrate and other solutes in the unsaturated zone of aquifers . |
| 2 | US environmentalists and trade union activists have united to demand changes to the proposed free trade agreement between the US and Mexico , which they claim fails to provide sufficient safeguards against the risks of cross-border pollution and the import of contaminated foods . |
| 3 | Over 40,000 demonstrators led by Cárdenas gathered in the central square of the capital , Mexico City , on Aug. 29 to demand changes in the political system following the controversial state elections . |
| 4 | The third is the new power the European Commission and the council will get to demand changes in the fiscal policies of members . |
| 5 | As might be expected , changes in the ‘ materials and fuel ’ index tend to come before ( or ‘ lead ’ ) changes in the ‘ home sales ’ index which , in turn , tend to lead changes in the Retail Price Index . |
| 6 | In general , then , supporters of the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view tend to favour changes in the 1975 Children Act which facilitate the removal and transfer of parental rights . |
| 7 | The space agencies of the United States , Russia , Europe , Japan , China and Brazil have agreed to a joint programme which will use both existing and new satellites to monitor changes in the global environment . |
| 8 | The insistence that the discussion take place through established party channels and the refusal to contemplate changes to the present communist system meant real reforms are extremely unlikely , he added . |
| 9 | This research project seeks to understand changes in the social causation of disease , from the 1950Ls to the present day , both within Britain and in the wider European context . |
| 10 | There may be a need to consider changes to the general practitioner 's contract to encourage research , such as relaxing the regulations of hours committed to patient services and creating a practice development allowance to encourage practices to work with commissioning authorities to adopt and evaluate health gain strategies . |
| 11 | If this conclusion is correct then either much more may need to be done to force changes in the underlying culture of Whitehall , or the FMI may be laid ‘ to rest as soon as the architect [ Mrs Thatcher ] is removed ’ ( Gray and Jenkins , 1984 , p. 427 ) . |
| 12 | Tipperary after local opposition , saying the Raybestos case was worse as the Ovens objectors were trying to force changes after the statutory period for planning objections had long passed : ‘ Foreign companies coming to this country and adhering to our planning conditions will begin wondering if they can go ahead at all if they see the assurances of the IDA and the planning authorities are not the final assurances . ’ |
| 13 | The case comes on the day senior magistrates met the Home Secretary to seek changes to the new Criminal Justice Act , under which penalties are linked to a person 's ability to pay . |
| 14 | It came as senior members of the magistrates association met the Home Secretary in London to seek changes in the new fines system . |
| 15 | Naturally Conservative identifiers were least inclined to advocate changes in the Conservative Party , but so were readers of right-wing papers and , to a lesser extent , readers of highbrow papers ( Table 8.15 ) . |
| 16 | If full morphometric analysis were to show changes at the mild end of the spectrum of coeliac like enteropathy in the original biopsies ( as has been reported in two such patients ) this would require that the descriptive term in these cases be revised from latent to low grade or mild gluten sensitive enteropathy . |
| 17 | He inherited this Bill a and it is not always easy er to make changes of the radical nature which he has proposed . |
| 18 | If you go somewhere determined , with the best of intentions , to make changes for the better , you are likely to be on the look-out for faults to correct . |
| 19 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 20 | Here at Practical PC , we 've had AUTOEXEC.BATs full of REMmed lines — alternative command lines that needed editing to make changes in the various programs and drivers we used from time to time . |
| 21 | Such traders may be able to forecast changes in the relative spot price of the underlying assets , the present value of the dividends on the shares in the index or the relevant risk-free interest rates . |