Example sentences of "change in [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 The effectiveness of pupil learning in all curriculum areas , changes in teachers ' attitudes and awareness of the needs of children with learning difficulties , and long-term modifications to curriculum materials and teaching strategies will all be equally , if not more , relevant .
2 The ASB agreed that changes in shareholders ' funds other than those included in the statement of total recognised gains and losses can also be important in understanding the change in a reporting entity 's financial position , and concluded that this additional information should be required in a reconciliation of movements in shareholders ' funds .
3 Thus the model can not take account either of changes in operators ' costs or of developments such as road pricing or a carbon tax which could be in place in the medium or long term .
4 The 1981 English House Condition Survey ( Department of the Environment 1982 ) supports the general urban-rural differences found in 1976 , although slight changes in surveyors ' classifications of district as rural , urban or conurbations make precise comparisons difficult .
5 In summary , an exchange rate system needs to be sufficiently flexible to cope with long-run changes in countries ' competitive positions .
6 The outcome of this behaviour of nominal exchange rates was that real exchange rate changes , or changes in countries ' competitiveness , were large and unpredictable .
7 This information helps the retailer plan for the future and order stock to match changes in customers ' buying habits .
8 Electoral change in the constituencies which form the basis of Britain 's political system is often equated with changes in residents ' political preferences .
9 There also needs to be much clearer reference to the limitations in the audit process and , in particular , in relation to collusive or immaterial fraud and sudden changes in companies ' financial positions , as these are also fundamental to the expectations gap .
10 To pinpoint single factors affecting inventories has proved difficult , although Kennedy ( 1986 ) notes that a modified stock-adjustment principle on the lines above helps explain changes in manufacturers ' inventories during much of the 1960s and 1970s .
11 The choice of haven will be ruled by various factors : existing links , geographical/time zone convenience , language , legal system , special regimes and incentives , and , possibly , changes in competitors ' regimes as well .
12 The apparent changes in the prevalence of health problems may reflect changes in peoples ' expectations about their health as well as real changes in the prevalence of chronic health problems .
13 One may therefore think of an innovation in teaching methods as being designed to achieve a set of intentions ( eg , changes in pupils ' ways of thinking ) by means of a set of processes which are usually only rather coarsely determined .
14 Despite some evidence of change in teachers ' attitudes and behaviour , they themselves were reluctant to admit that the project had influenced them .
15 In this case , the accounts are addressed to the shareholders and the balance sheet is a statement of shareholders ' financial position while the income statement is the change in shareholders ' financial position .
16 The first is a perceptible change in judges ' attitudes to judicial review .
17 Any change in public deposits must be matched by an equal and opposite change in bankers ' deposits , from which still further consequences may follow .
18 The industry is expected to excuse itself by highlighting the last-minute change in voters ' allegiances , reflected in the last polls .
19 One of the most critical problems for organizations in designing well and competitively is their response or lack of response to change and , more specifically , to rates of change in markets ' technical and economic conditions .
20 He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors .
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