Example sentences of "the change in the " in BNC.

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1 The change in the socio-moral context was hardly recognized , and the corresponding change in religious social ethics had remained unformulated .
2 As a result , the apparatus ‘ receives the form of the object without its matter ’ ; the change in the apparatus is perception .
3 The change in the Christian community from the largest community to minority status has never been officially acknowledged in Lebanese statistics .
4 That new thing , as is recently being admitted , is connected with the change in the composition of the population of certain of our great cities .
5 If it was the Conservative Party 's circumstances that gave Maxse 's brand of radical Conservatism its appeal , it was also the change in the party 's circumstances wrought by the war which relegated Maxse to the margins of Conservative politics .
6 Following General Douglas MacArthur 's initial victories the change in the nature of the Korean operation was very much a British initiative .
7 I think one sees it by the change in the structure of big business , by so many management buy-outs and the realisation that size is not everything ; large companies concentrating more on their core businesses and getting rid of peripheral businesses and spending more on research and development in supporting core businesses .
8 This was the simultaneous introduction of several indissolubly linked institutions : monogamy ( which later gave rise to polyandry and polygamy ) , the nuclear family , private property ( the property of the nuclear family ) , the change in the rule of descent from the female line to the male line , the subordination and humiliation of women , and the State .
9 Results of a survey conducted by the Department of Health — the first to be published since the change in the law — showed that the average adult weekly alcohol consumption had not changed between 1987 and 1989 .
10 Israelis are pleased with the change in the US regulations , which effectively signal an end to the drop-out phenomenon .
11 The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience .
12 What has affected the recent decline of entertaining more than anything else , of course , has been the change in the position of women .
13 The second factor was the change in the Ministry of Defence 's decision-making processes brought about by the increasing complexity of Defence issues .
14 The change in the outlook for Hongkong following last June 's massacre in Tiananmen Square demands that Hongkong Bank be able to negotiate with a future Chinese government from a position of strength .
15 In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time .
16 Something is known of the physical nature of the change in the synapse .
17 Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end .
18 TO WHAT extent does the change in the ministers in the economic departments foreshadow a change in policy direction ?
19 ( iii ) From their reading of pre-20th century literature , pupils should be encouraged to identify some of the major changes in English grammar over the centuries , eg the loss — except in some dialects and in religious uses — of thee and thou ; the simplification of the verb system eg from have , hast , hath , to have and has ; the change in the structure of negatives eg from I know not to I do n't know .
20 Mrs Thatcher exploited the change in the leadership election rules ( instituted after Meyer 's challenge ) requiring the names of those MPs nominating candidates to be made public by having Hurd and Major sign her nomination .
21 ( The further implication is that the change in the effectiveness of the stimulus that is responsible for latent inhibition is not susceptible to the effects of heightened arousal . )
22 An initial phase of discrimination training will establish a tendency to make certain ( different ) responses to the critical stimuli , but the change in the nature of the task for the second phase should mean that the specific response patterns acquired in the first phase will be irrelevant .
23 The threat from golf comes both from the change in the character of pasture and from associated development .
24 Agnes found herself surprised at the change in the gentleman 's voice as he looked at her father and said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes .
25 Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period .
26 The change in the offside law , when it came , was merely the catalyst , not the sole cause , which produced the ‘ stopper ’ .
27 The unit could take some credit then for the change in the supplementary benefit adjudication regulations that followed as a result .
28 The change in the ways of disciplining has been most evident in the gradual erosion of absolutist , authoritarian and punitive methods of discipline .
29 Another factor which quickened the change in the status of the Foreign Office was the series of reforms instigated by the Treasury in 1848 which by 1852 , when the Foreign Office applied for additional staff , sparked off an acrimonious controversy between the two offices .
30 A series of Land Acts shook the confidence of the landlords as they recognised in them a forewarning of the change in the ownership of Irish land .
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