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

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1 Fashion usually operates within a system of emulation and differentiation in knowledge , such that it uses the dynamic force of object change as a means of reinforcing the stability of the social system within which it is operating ( Miller 1985 : 184–96 ; Simmel 1957 ) .
2 Our broad training in both physical and cultural systems and our appreciation of landscape change in the natural and human senses give us perspectives and insight that are rarely found in other disciplines .
3 Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ .
4 Definition of the impacts of climate change on eastern Europe and the developing countries ;
5 One of the most remarkable aspects of population change in recent years has been the growth and redistribution of the labour force .
6 The research aims to evaluate the effect of policy change for the distribution of health care across different groups in the British population .
7 Our objective is to improve models for the prediction of climate change by tests against palaeoclimate data .
8 It seems that we reach a better generalization about direction of vowel change in BV if we override contrastive phoneme theory here .
9 Years of schooling , types of schooling , are the indices of quality change in education .
10 While births and deaths are required by law to be notified to the Registrar General , migration — which is generally the most significant component of population change at regional and local levels and has increased its importance as rates of natural increase have declined — is much more poorly documented ( Willis , 1974 ; Rees , 1977 ; Ogilvy , 1980 ; Stillwell , 1986 ) .
11 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 .
12 Continuing the example of norms of dress , an embarrassed silence , a hoot of derision or a contemptuous stare will make most members of society who have broken norms of dress change into more conventional attire .
13 Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ .
14 Three principal dimensions have dominated geographical patterns of population change in the second half of the twentieth century .
15 Direct effects of increasing CO 2 on plants must be considered when modelling the global carbon cycle and effects of climate change on vegetation .
16 A study commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that between 60 and 360 million people could go hungry as a direct result of the effects of climate change on wheat , rice , maize and soybean yields .
17 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 .
18 As far as the effects of population change on the economy are concerned , however , the particular disease is of secondary importance .
19 You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue .
20 This contains chapters on fertility , the family , divorce , old age , education , housing , internal migration and ethnic minorities , as well as a chapter stressing the significance and implications of population change for planning and policy-making .
21 The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise .
22 ( 1973 ) on the 1951 , 1961 and 1966 Censuses revealed the early post-war experience , based on an examination of population change in new geographical units ( ‘ building blocks ’ ) : these were the Standard Metropolitan Labour Area ( SMLA ) and the Metropolitan Economic Labour Area ( MELA ) .
23 I say ‘ more or less stable ’ because , of course , conventions of meaning change over time .
24 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 .
25 This is also the reason why , having examined the main dimensions of employment change in the next two chapters , we return to the topic of population in Chapter 7 .
26 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 .
27 Third , to examine the impact of employment change within the estate agency sectors upon local labour market change .
28 Impact of climate change on British flora and fauna
29 Table 4.3 gives details of population change over the two decades for the twenty counties and Scottish regions which in 1981 had the lowest population densities ( i.e. were the most rural ) .
30 Table 3.1 sets out the pattern of employment change in the service industries between 1959 and 1981 .
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