Example sentences of "the change was " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 2 | Moreover , it is not true that prior to the nineteenth century ( or eighteenth , depending on when the change was said to occur ) sexual deviance was conceptualized only as a form of behaviour . |
| 3 | The change was welcomed by BHRCA members and , although there was no debate at the AGM before the vote , many spoke afterwards of earlier vigorous debates in the committees which make up the BHRCA . |
| 4 | Bob Keville , chairman of the Lloyd 's Insurance Brokers Committee , predicted the change was ‘ bound to lead to more business coming Lloyd 's way in future . ’ |
| 5 | Bob Keville , chairman of the Lloyd 's Insurance Brokers Committee , predicted the change was ‘ bound to lead to more business coming Lloyd 's way in future . ’ |
| 6 | The initiative for the change was British : full-backs , working in tandem , were catching forwards offside so often that games were becoming boring and gates were going down . |
| 7 | WWF says the change was made ‘ to reflect more accurately the conservation work it does ’ . |
| 8 | The change was good . |
| 9 | The date of the change was 1494 , the year of Charles VIII 's Italian campaign , beginning the destructive French , and therefore Spanish , involvement in Italy which was to be such a dominant theme in European politics and war in the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 11 | The change was profound . |
| 12 | The change was aimed at reducing stoppages for offside , which in the 1920s were the cause of much monotony as full-backs played further and further upfield . |
| 13 | In England the change was not effected until the Earl of Chesterfield 's Act of 24 George II which stipulated , in March 1751 , that the first day of the January immediately following should be the start of 1752 , and that 2 September 1752 should be followed by 14 September . |
| 14 | The justification for the change was founded on the need to provide an exciting finish for the television audience rather than the interests of cricket of the fairness of the result . |
| 15 | Possibly it could have led to gastric ulcers and an early coronary , so perhaps the change was a blessing in disguise ? |
| 16 | Punishments administered by the colonial courts were more inflexible than those available through indigenous judicial procedures , but the change was neither sudden nor drastic . |
| 17 | In the rest of the country , and in post-Plague London , the change was due to social trends more than anything else . |
| 18 | But the change was only cosmetic . |
| 19 | Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas , but for Amy the change was sudden . |
| 20 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 21 | AD 675 , a shortage of gold forced a change to silver coins ( sceattas ) and their frequency in Kent points to both Kentish supremacy in exchange and , perhaps , the direction in which commerce was moving when the change was necessary . |
| 22 | The change was immediate and profound . |
| 23 | The change was radical . |
| 24 | Anselm was not unchanged by his new office , but the change was slow and never deep . |
| 25 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 26 | The change was announced internally on April 2 and will extend to all units in the US . |
| 27 | For most workers and consumers , the change was noticeable only in the gradual change in letterheads , titles and nameplates : the familiar paraphernalia of institutional changes . |
| 28 | The essence of the change was the removal of sin from the ambit of the law . |
| 29 | At The Times , the change was signalled by the appointment as columnist of Bernard Levin , a writer whose highly distinctive voice , originally anonymous in the Spectator , could not ‘ unnamed ’ have stood regular exposure in a daily paper . |
| 30 | In Scotland the resistance to the change was crushed quickly enough . |