Example sentences of "that a change of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The above considerations are simply meant to signal my conviction that a change of balance is desirable , with a move away from the narrow professionalism of the academy , and a modest return to the original motives of the discipline of English . |
| 2 | Sources within Coopers say that a change of mind will be announced this week . |
| 3 | Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along . |
| 4 | A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body . |
| 5 | The researchers found that a change of curriculum from traditional academic subjects to topics of local relevance forced a change of roles for teachers and pupils ( the latter becoming knowledge-holders ) and a change of methods and time-tabling which in the end proved non-acceptable , least of all to parents who favoured the traditional approach as a gateway to success , and resisted innovation ( 17 ) . |
| 6 | This outcome can be predicted if it is allowed that a change of context causes changes in α to be determined solely or largely by events on the immediately preceding trial ( i.e. if contextual change produced an increase in the value of γ in equation 3.2 above ) . |
| 7 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 8 | Whatever their source , such generalization decrement effects would mean that a change of context would produce a diminution of the CR . |
| 9 | There may be other associative effects , however , and these allow the possibility that a change of context might reduce the likelihood of the CR . |
| 10 | The suggestion put forward by Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see above , p. 119 ) that the retrieval of more ‘ important , associations will be less dependent on contextual cues implies that a change of context might produce a greater loss of effectiveness in the inhibitory than in the excitatory association . |
| 11 | We can expect that a change of context after prolonged training would produce an actual increase in the magnitude of the observed CR . |
| 12 | Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance . |
| 13 | We estimated that a change of five points in the Spielberger score might be clinically significant ; to detect this with 95% power ( assuming a standard deviation of 6 ) the required sample size was calculated to be 40–50 patients in each group . |
| 14 | Rance was convinced that a change of policy was necessary : he told Pethick-Lawrence , ‘ we are in one big morass here which has to be cleared , . |
| 15 | It would be a sad day if it was thought that a change of mind on the part of a local authority in any question relating to children was an admission of past error . |
| 16 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 17 | The reason why linguistics has had such importance for literary theory , however , is not just that a change of direction has taken place in the development of the discipline . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you settling down well in your house ? ’ she asked , feeling that a change of subject was now called for . |
| 19 | That a change of ownership would usher in new ideas and allow productivity to soar and new markets to be exploited . ’ |
| 20 | In particular it will examine the applicability of the theory that a change of strategy within a firm invariably arose when outsider elements ( eg junior directors , middle managers of external consultants ) persuaded senior managers and directors that a gap existed between the firm 's existing strategy and its external markets . |
| 21 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the notion of change of state does not have to be a criterial trait of the meaning of the verb ( see Cruse , 1986 ) ; it is sufficient that a change of state is understood to be compatible with the lexical value of the verb . |
| 23 | With the results available , by using the actual difference in observed means , the probability that a change of given size might have been overlooked in the study can then be calculated according to the following formula : |
| 24 | George Ball , however , believed that a change of policy was becoming essential in response to the more pessimistic diagnoses . |
| 25 | It is important that the lawyers consider carefully the effect that a change of control will have on the ongoing business . |
| 26 | After the previous Armed Forces minister , Archie Hamilton , was replaced by Mr Hanley , Mr Brandreth asked for a meeting in the hope that a change of minister might mean a change of heart over the pay office . |
| 27 | Sometimes ‘ continuous ’ monitoring is possible in the sense that a change of state triggers an observation ; this can be the case in , for example , psychiatric follow-up studies . |