Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] change " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is huge and successful , but over the past decade it has undergone a radical change that has seen it transformed from a seemingly crusty , actuary-dominated organisation to one that is prominently business led , competitive and very high profile . |
| 2 | The transmission has undergone a major change to a four-speed unit , sourced from General Motors , and has been provided with the now-obligatory sports and economy programmes , plus a winter mode which allows the system to start off in second gear . |
| 3 | The tone , you understand , has undergone a subtle change . ’ |
| 4 | This situation has undergone a dramatic change in recent years . |
| 5 | The business , which has seen a remarkable change in its fortunes since Henk van Eck , a Dutch executive , rescued the ailing operation in 1985 and subsequently installed an ambitious management team , now has an impressive 20 per cent share of the Scottish market . |
| 6 | As a result mechanization in agriculture has wrought a spectacular change in the implements that the workers use to produce the crop and an equally drastic change in the pace at which each step in the productive process is carried out , but in most branches of agriculture the fundamental sequential organization of production remains undisturbed . |
| 7 | The best example of that is the Alpha 4 database programs , which normally sells for £345 , but for which only £49 needs to be paid if you 're a registered user — it 's gone from version 2 to version 3 , and has had a complete change of documentation . |
| 8 | Does that mean he has had a drastic change of heart or is it just that he thinks , along with many of his colleagues , that there is electoral advantage in keeping this quiet at the moment ? |
| 9 | Evolution , which literally means unrolling , or development , is , for biologists , the process by which there has occurred a steady change in the form of organisms across generations . |
| 10 | The effect of vitamin A supplementation on such deaths has not been consistent in previous trials , though none has found a significant change . |
| 11 | The increase in tourism has meant a dramatic change in the number of hotel beds . |
| 12 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |
| 13 | She should have accepted a comfortable change for the better . |
| 14 | He had read some of the more discreet passages for the evening audience , having had a last-minute change of plan . |
| 15 | It would have guaranteed a complete change in the way things were run at Westminster . |
| 16 | The 19th century had witnessed a significant change in the distribution and occupations of the population . |
| 17 | The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad . |
| 18 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 19 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 20 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 21 | Both Dorothea 's discomforting sense of an almost impassable gulf dividing rich and poor and their peculiar confidence in the building of cottages are slight anachronisms in the early 1830s ; by the 1870s they are pervasive assumptions , indicating that , in the forty intervening years , attitudes to the poor and their houses had undergone a radical change . |
| 22 | The imperial image had undergone a drastic change at the accession of Hadrian ( AD 117–38 ) . |
| 23 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
| 24 | Since the resumption of my mother 's upwardbound course in social orienteering , her purchasing patterns had undergone a profound change . |
| 25 | The band had done a quick change ! |
| 26 | Since that fraught evening over a month ago , Celia had had a certain change of heart . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 've had a sudden change of heart ? ’ |
| 28 | But I 've been back recently as a teacher so it 's I 've to do a quick change act from a twin-set and pearls into a beret and er smock to become an artist . |
| 29 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 30 | In that sense Morgan had authorised a clear change of direction in the law . |