Example sentences of "the world [vb past] changed " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 2 | The world had changed . |
| 3 | It is like the Buddhist priest who went to nirvana and when he returned , the world had changed into nirvana . |
| 4 | The world had changed : de Chavigny could no longer cater just to the needs of those who had arrived ; it had to make provision for those on the way up . |
| 5 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 6 | In the time between the world had changed in so many ways . |
| 7 | In the latter case , only a decade later , the world had changed , inflation was being controlled and growth had slowed , so that recovery from the overexpansion could only be achieved by retrenchment . |
| 8 | He realized that the world had changed and that each side was capable of destroying the other in a nuclear holocaust . |
| 9 | Old-style Falangists occupied the ministries associated with social and political control ( Interior , Army , Labour and the Party Secretariat ) , but portfolios connected with the external image of the regime and the assurance of its future ( such as Justice , Foreign Affairs , Education and Public Works ) were assigned to men guided less by rigid ideological concepts than by their awareness that the world had changed since 1945 and that Spain needed to adapt if it was to be counted among the leading nations in the post-war world . |
| 10 | This is a , you know , how you should approach change , er , I learnt my lesson a few years ago , because I went on a course , I came back to my office , and thought the world had changed . |