Example sentences of "changes in [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes in assessment procedures had evident consequences for the teaching methods adopted . |
| 2 | But Sir Peter Holmes , chairman of the UK-based Shell Transport & Trading wing , urged caution yesterday about reading too much into results influenced by changes in accountancy practices to meet new US rules , and currency movements . |
| 3 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 4 | The data does not include common land and it has had to be standardised to overcome changes in category definitions over the years . |
| 5 | The second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s were dominated for local government by a series of changes in funding arrangements and rules on spending . |
| 6 | Sudden changes in behaviour patterns of prey species also produce seasonal changes in predation ; for example when young moles are dispersing from their nests they travel on the surface rather than beneath the ground , and they are then heavily predated . |
| 7 | Failure to anticipate changes in income levels and bidding requirements is a far more common cause of financial difficulty in practices than serious overspending . |
| 8 | In such a situation it becomes crucial to understand the economic effects of changes in defence budgets are likely to be . |
| 9 | In practice , this may mean as little as insisting on modest changes in decision-making procedures and modes of academic debate ; or it may mean as much as the sacrifice of a whole way of life for activism in some major political cause . |
| 10 | The continual changing of public expenditure targets in real terms , and the confusing changes in grant systems , have played havoc with local authorities ' and services ' capacity to plan . |
| 11 | Until December 1984 , when MAFF and WOAD announced changes in grant levels under the AHGS , the LFA 's ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ zone attracted grant levels of 50% for land cultivation and 60% for drainage . |
| 12 | Changes in bankruptcy rules can cause more bankruptcies |
| 13 | The overall effect on the payroll of salary/wage increases , changes in holiday arrangements or hourly rates , pension contributions and so forth can be precisely predicted using a computer model . |
| 14 | Mayo deduced that when special attention is given to workers by management , productivity is likely to increase regardless of any actual changes in working conditions . |
| 15 | Our sample appears to confirm that collective bargaining practice has followed the initial approach of union policy in giving little weight to the less quantifiable changes in working conditions from application of new technology and systems , especially in job design and its effects on the quality of working life . |
| 16 | changes in working patterns . |
| 17 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 18 | Although the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee has backed the changes in working patterns , task forces have given mixed reviews on consultants ' commitment to the changes . |
| 19 | According to the unions , however , it contains a few minor strings , but nothing like the substantial changes in working practices being asked for nationally by the employers . |
| 20 | The FT , in consultation with the Robens Institute of Health and Safety at Surrey University , is recommending changes in working practices to try to halt the spread of RSI . |
| 21 | This ignores the reality that attitudinal change , changes in working practices or skills and institutional change at the very least need careful and often time-consuming planning and preparation if they are to be successfully achieved . |
| 22 | Although the take up in some areas has been poorer than expected in the programme , which is now into its second year , research into changes in working practices and attitudes has been assessed . |
| 23 | By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs . |
| 24 | ‘ The simplified , streamlined structure provides more clarity to the role of each branch and will facilitate the changes in working practices which will be implemented over the coming months . ’ |
| 25 | It has been claimed that high unemployment , recent legislation and changes in the strategies of management have served to weaken the power of trade unions , thereby permitting changes in working practices and work organization which provide a base for improved productivity and performance . |
| 26 | Sellafield 's Health and Safety Manager , Colin Partington , said there were various reasons for the outstanding performance , including new radiation shielding and changes in working practices . |
| 27 | The project has run to schedule throughout and we have maintained volumes , thanks to the co-operation of everyone in the mill who have accepted enormous changes in working practices and got to grips with the new system quickly and competently — its ultimate success will be a tribute to them all . |
| 28 | Since 1948 , there have been over 90 ‘ decisions ’ of the tribunal on questions such as annual pay claims , the length of the working week , bonus schemes and payments , and in recent years , changes in working practices . |
| 29 | Prospects of wholesale changes in working practices and conditions of services , if we will be if we are able to compete with the private sector in an aggressive market . |
| 30 | A recent study on patients who were selected because of changes in warning symptoms associated with the change of insulin species found no differences between responses to hypoglycaemia induced by porcine or human insulin . |