Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] change " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMES wishes to see the FDR-FMLN adopt a " Minimum Women 's Programme " as part of its published manifesto and believes that as far as conditions permit , it is necessary to work for change now . |
| 2 | GERMANS in East and West reacted with disappointment and scepticism yesterday to a promise by the East German leaders to talk about change . |
| 3 | In particular , teachers will somehow have to be ‘ managed ’ to participate in change , not just as foot soldiers obedient to curriculum manager ‘ officers ’ , but as genuine participant professionals . |
| 4 | Opening her purse to look for change , she crossed the road to the phone box . |
| 5 | He says they wo n't have to look for change . |
| 6 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 7 | It was certainly the only sort acceptable to the small number of landowners who were prepared to embark upon change . |
| 8 | The research develops a method for analysing this question , and applies it to look at change in manufacturing industry in London in the period 1976-81 . |
| 9 | While each school must evolve its own way of working , it is clear that the traditional two-tier model has limited capacity to cope with change on the scale now being experienced . |
| 10 | This has been described as the first ‘ social laboratory ’ where children can experiment with relationships and learn to cope with change , envy , competitiveness and rivalry — things that will help them to develop social skills . |
| 11 | A review of strengths and weaknesses should cover the organization 's products or services , resources , people , finds , new ideas , current and future skills and examine the organizational structure and ability of the organization to cope with change . |
| 12 | Having burned their fingers two years ago , senior Ford executives will continue to press for change , but preferably not at the expense of another strike . |
| 13 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 14 | While the Act reiterates a commitment to parental involvement ( Sandow , Stafford and Stafford 1987 ) nevertheless many parents have felt excluded from decision-making processes and have formed alliances to challenge local authorities and to press for change . |
| 15 | Liberal democratic institutions , it is argued , have been grafted onto a society which places a high value on social consensus , but there are opportunities for groups to press for change . |
| 16 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 17 | But as you know the Save The Children is just one development organisation and with limited resources , so a major part of our task is to use our influence and authority to press for change on a wider scale by keeping the issues of poverty and inequality and of children firmly on the international agenda . |
| 18 | He points to some of the planned sessions which together constitute a ‘ business stream ’ , beginning with an opening session which , he says , ‘ starts on the basis of , forget IT , what are the critical success factors of your business ? ’ , and is then followed on the next day by looking at how to manage for change by establishing an IT corporate policy . |
| 19 | He tends to opt for change merely because team A have had a go and it is time to give team B a chance . |
| 20 | Villagers are being shown how to lobby for change by learning how to write press releases , organise protests and run clean-up campaigns . |
| 21 | The short-term objectives of the network are to raise women 's awareness of their image in the mass media , to obtain relevant information from research and networking that would motivate women to lobby for change , and to equip women with specific skills that would help build and strengthen alternative communication for and by women . |
| 22 | Since total taxes on financial services bring in over SFr9 billion a year in revenues , politicians are reluctant to vote for change . |
| 23 | Labour 's Alan Milburn said : ‘ People are going to vote for change in Darlington . |
| 24 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 25 | It was n't to do with change . ’ |
| 26 | The client must then be persuaded to invest in change . |
| 27 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 28 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 29 | recognize Foucault 's political limits : failure to account for change , and the difficult relationship between discourse and realities ( 1984 : 108–9 ) . |
| 30 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |