Example sentences of "[noun sg] change in the " in BNC.

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1 But even a single base change in the germ line DNA can cause gross visible effects , because the changed DNA molecule is replicated , and its effects are further amplified during the decoding process .
2 Such were the internal pressures for curriculum change in the ‘ sixties and they were very important .
3 Today some analysts ( Frisby 1985 ; see Chapter Five above ) are beginning to suggest that the place to look for formative conditions of paradigm change in the human sciences is instead in the aesthetic sphere .
4 In the analysis of shorelines and chronological stages many studies first followed Baulig ( 1935 ) and other workers , including Deperet working on Mediterranean shorelines , and then were influenced by the masterly synthesis achieved by Fairbridge 1961 and by Zeuner 's ( 1959 ) consolidated view of sea level change in the Quaternary .
5 He had seen the whole pattern of crime change in the Oswaldston area in the course of his career : crimes that grew out of hunger and desperation had given way to crimes that grew out of affluence , greed , imitation and boredom .
6 After a rule change in the March budget , sales of gilts to banks count towards PSBR financing .
7 It is , therefore , a means of measuring the percentage change in the average level of prices from the base period to the current period .
8 the absolute value of the daily percentage change in the closing prices , ( Rutledge , 1979 ) ;
9 What was the net percentage change in the goblin population over the four years ?
10 This measures the percentage change in the value of the call in response to a given change in the price of the share .
11 As a result any given percentage change in speculative balances will cause a relatively large percentage change in the overall demand for money .
12 In fact , there was no attitude change in the simple sense , but there was an historical event , which necessitated a re-evaluation of previous positions .
13 Regional population change in the 1950s and 1960s
14 The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations .
15 Another drawback is that many census estimates concentrate on natural change ( i.e. the difference between births and deaths ) and tend to ignore the most effective component of population change in the western world , migration .
16 The principal dimensions of overall population change in the UK are shown in Figure 4.1 Somewhat paradoxically , the total population has changed relatively little in size since the early 1970s , but this in itself represents a significant change from previous experience .
17 Three principal dimensions have dominated geographical patterns of population change in the second half of the twentieth century .
18 Really detailed molecular records at a spacing of a hundred years or less will be necessary to predict the climate change in the future and we 'll really need that information if we 're going to live safely on this planet .
19 The report , entitled the Potential Effects of Climate Change in the United Kingdom , stresses the need for early government planning to deal with the impact of climate change .
20 This claim is made by two scientists , David Pitt and Sten Nilsson , in Mountain World in Danger : Climate Change in the Forests and Mountains of Europe .
21 In the Royal Docks the London Borough of Newham in 1987 agreed to support the broad pattern of land use in three consortia schemes and co-operate with LDDC plans on land development and transport change in the area in return for the provision of 1,500 rented houses , a minimum of £60 million of social facilities and training measures to ensure maximum local employment .
22 A simple-to-read colour change in the test results indicates the LH surge .
23 Again , a simple colour change in the test will tell you whether or not you are soon to be a mum .
24 Study of an ‘ out of treatment ’ group might disclose to what extent , if at all , the trends reported reflect behaviour change in the wider population of drug misusers in Lothian .
25 All of the characters are strong and stay basically in the same tone except for Estella who undergoes a very sudden character change in the revised ending .
26 Equation 7.7 can be compared with the earlier expression for geodesic deviation : taking account of the sign change in the spatial components of the metric when passing from Euclidean to Minkowski space .
27 With a probable career change in the future , Melanee would be wise to limit her borrowing as much as possible .
28 Indeed , unlike the lowlands where much of the change is due to a rejection of the 200-year-old ‘ enclosure landscape ’ much land use change in the uplands is the result of a continuing revaluation of the economic benefits , or otherwise , of reclaiming moorland for agricultural use , and abandonment of farmland ( Parry , 1976 ) can take place along-side reclamation ( Parry et al .
29 Table 8.4 has already shown that most National Parks lost more rough pasture to woodland than to agriculture , but in the southwest Table 8.4 also shows that Dartmoor lost more rough pasture to farmland than to woodland , and in a study of land use change in the nearby Exmoor National Park , Lord Porchester ( 1977 ) found that the moorland area had been reduced , from 24,000 hectares in 1947 to 19,000 hectares in 1976 , with 3,800 hectares going to farmland but only 1,200 hectares going to woodland .
30 Almost 60 per cent of the annual fertility rate change in the upturn and in the downturn of the US baby boom were due to tempo changes rather than changes in final family size ( Ryder 1980 ) .
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