Example sentences of "changes [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Some rule changes may be voted on next year , though extensive change is not likely before 1991 .
2 Yet if talk of permanent or irreversible changes may be too bold , the Thatcher government has created a new agenda , one which a successor government will find difficult to reverse .
3 Climatic changes may be shod term , like El Nino , or long term , like global cooling or warming over millennia .
4 No work plan is infallible and changes may be necessary .
5 How a person perceives changes may be affected by how it is perceived by other members of the family and society .
6 These changes may be shown by a failure in health , or morale , or by bereavement ;
7 Some changes may be natural , such as those in the flow and direction of ocean currents , which can affect the distribution of the small pelagic fish or fish fry on which the birds depend .
8 These morphological changes may be interpreted functionally in dietary terms as a change to a diet with hard fruit as the main constituent , and this may be related in turn to the drier and more seasonal environments they lived in , but as there was little change in their postcranial skeletons it is likely that they retained their ancestral arboreal locomotor pattern .
9 Transient deterioration in neuropsychological function has been shown convincingly during short periods of experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia , and it has been argued that the changes may be due to neurotransmitter deficiency .
10 Changes may be on the way however .
11 Our approach to these changes may be divided conveniently into the two parts : the competition and the credit control aspects of the new arrangements .
12 Calls for the increased ‘ internationalization ’ of the economy , of society and of political attitudes suggest that many of the postwar changes may be less substantive than are often imagined .
13 In some cases these changes may be due to the tendency of tracheoles to migrate actively towards areas of high oxygen demand , drawing the tracheae after them ( Wigglesworth , 1954 ; Smart , 1956 ) .
14 Such a list may quite simply be typed out on sheets of paper and duplicated so that additions and changes may be made until the list has to be retyped for clarity 's sake .
15 Such changes may be associated with equally structural changes in the wider economy and society .
16 The effect of these changes may be summarized as follows :
17 Over time , those rules will be altered : in many cases slowly as responses to gradual changes in both the society and the environment that it occupies ; in some cases rapidly , as a reaction to a sudden crisis ; and occasionally as a consequence of contact with other cultures , when changes may be either voluntarily adopted , because the impacted group has observed the benefits from doing something differently , or imposed by powerful external groups .
18 Whilst the consequences of these changes may be hotly debated , their marketing impact on business enterprises has been immense .
19 Such an approach is necessary because a warming trend due to greenhouse gas changes may be counteracted initially by a cooling trend caused by other factors .
20 In Britain there are a multitude of consultative committees in which members of organized interests and officials of the bureaucracy discuss both what legislative changes may be made and how legislation can be implemented .
21 These changes may be related to the indicator of the differential effect on the welfare of the two classes introduced in Lecture 6 ( Eq .
22 The simplest way in which these changes may be projected through time is to take the total population at a given instant and to alter it year by year ( or by some other period of time ) according to a chosen assumption about future growth or decline .
23 In reality , the changes may be positive for the staff , but they may be perceived as negative ( there is also the possibility that change will be negative and resistance to change is therefore a positive thing ) .
24 These changes may be associated with the intensification of the Aleutian Low , a major meteorological system which dominates the weather of the North Pacific region .
25 Thus it seems clear that malignant transformation can affect the expression , distribution , and function of glycosylated cell surface components such as integrins , but the pattern of changes may be complex .
26 According to Professor Dick van Velzen , Royal Liverpool Children 's Hospital , UK , these changes may be important in the aetiology of SIDS because they occur in an area involved in the control of breathing , heart rate , and temperature .
27 To some extent these changes may be consumer driven , reflecting consumer dissatisfaction with impersonal and bureaucratised welfare systems in contrast with the range of choice in private markets .
28 Whilst fundamental changes may be demanded by Westminster or Brussels , implementation and supervision will foreseeably remain in Chancery Lane .
29 Alternatively , remuneration changes may be in the remit of a remuneration committee consisting of non-executive directors .
30 Water changes should be around 30% per week .
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