Example sentences of "[noun pl] have changed [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Their passion for raiding has declined in recent years , but in most other respects their lifestyles have changed little in centuries , and the rugs they make today remain faithful to their ancestors ' methods of weaving and repertoire of designs .
2 A. Firstly , lifestyles have changed enormously .
3 For one thing , teaching and examination styles have changed dramatically lower down the school system .
4 The most simple and primitive in contemporary use , these looms have changed little since their inception several millennia ago ; they consist of four wooden beams which are laid out flat and secured by pegs driven into the ground .
5 No I bought my dining room suite , this Ercol dining room suite in there , I 've still got it , yeah that was a long Oh yeah the shops have changed quite a lot in the The Stow have n't they ?
6 These thirty-two acres have changed little since the three of us — Ludo , Albie and I — used to play here as kids .
7 Perhaps surprisingly , Conran 's management style and operating methods have changed little in the light of his vast experience .
8 These animals have changed little during the 400 million years since they evolved , and still retain their strange eyes .
9 Through conquest and defeat its borders have changed more dramatically and more often than those of any country in the past 100 years .
10 Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone .
11 Chemical companies have changed dramatically over the past 100 years as have public attitudes towards chemical issues .
12 In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 .
13 For me , however , circumstances have changed somewhat since my first love affair with the States and my fascination has taken on a maturity that matches my years and experiences on the North American continent .
14 But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up .
15 Their parents ' lives have changed too .
16 This can often be difficult to determine as attitudes towards openly discussing sexual matters have changed only in very recent times .
17 But universities have changed immensely in recent decades , and because of their close , complex and sometimes difficult relations with the public world , their procedures have become standardized and uniform , reflecting concern about justification and accountability .
18 Since then , their fortunes have changed spectacularly .
19 But its fortunes have changed now thanks to the revival in Sixties music and style .
20 It strikes me that the transformed cladists have changed little except the words .
21 To speak of these ‘ new styles ’ of politics is not , of course , to say that political struggles between classes have ceased , but only that they may now be modified by other kinds of political action and be less predominant in political life as a whole ; or to argue that the nature , aims and strategies of the principal classes have changed substantially , as Mallet and Touraine have suggested .
22 Current findings suggest a complex picture , where opportunity has increased , but the relative chances of success between classes have changed very little .
23 Patterns of social relations , flows of information and ideas have changed drastically ; and unevenly .
24 It is in these countries , particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , that significant upturns in the economy have done little to relieve a sense of urban crisis reminiscent of the 1960s , although the political terms of debates that address urban problems have changed dramatically over this time .
25 However , since power sources have changed significantly since Dom Pérignon 's day , there are no longer many of the giant , hand-operated , wheel-type presses .
26 The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines .
27 I have to say though , that market conditions have changed very substantially in the last couple of years , and we now have an opportunity before us , which is one which is unlikely to recur again .
28 Morality , Sir Monty points out , is an integral part of a society 's culture at any given time in its history , and in his view our moral conditions have changed radically .
29 Conditions have changed radically from a Century ago : but drivers on the busy Promenade still require alertness and quick reactions when contending with thousands of holiday-makers in close proximity to their tramcar .
30 By mastering production technology of mainframes and their microelectronic building blocks , the Japanese vendors have changed both the structure and style of the global computing business .
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