Example sentences of "there [verb] [been] a change " in BNC.

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1 A spokeswoman said : ‘ Although some staff have been allowed to take unpaid leave before , there has been a change in emphasis .
2 Recently there has been a change in emphasis within the textile industry from Europe to the Far East , and CAC has had to react to this new situation .
3 There has been a change in the genes , which alters the genetic programme .
4 Though there has been a change of Prime Minister and of the Secretary of State for the Environment since the publication of the White Paper , the environmental cause seems as strong as ever .
5 You can measure them later to see if there has been a change .
6 These payments are tax-free provided that they cover such ‘ essential purchases ’ as : new carpets and curtains when essential ; light fittings , new cooking or heating appliances where there has been a change of power ; and redecoration costs .
7 AFTER some 19 years there has been a change of leadership on the North Norfolk Railway .
8 Each step should be simple and complete in itself — preferably with some indication that successful completion has been achieved , for example the appearance or the change of colour of a signal light , or the noise of a motor starting or a change of pressure which indicates that there has been a change in the flow of some material .
9 So many record companies are only interested in kids — but there has been a change , more people are listening to classical type music at an earlier age .
10 Er as to whether there were any recor if there are any record or minutes as to when er the the change of mind occurred , er because plainly there there has been a change of mind .
11 There has been a change .
12 Whenever there has been a change within television in this country there has always been the accusation that quality would suffer .
13 The same factor comes into play with value added tax , in which there has been a change as a result of last spring 's Budget .
14 In the light of the arguments which have been put forward about the size of the constituency can we take it that there has been a change in Government principle on the boundary reorganisation ?
15 There has been a change in the approach of local government to compulsory competitive tendering , but it appears to have been lost on the Labour party .
16 Whether we like it or not , we , we 've got elderly people to look after , a lot of them , and whether we like it or not , there has been a change in attitude of the government .
17 In a slightly different context , that of the attitude to be adopted by an appellate court where there has been a change in the circumstances of the plaintiff since the trial at first instance , Harman LJ enunciated the principle that , " the court should never speculate where it knows " : Curwen v James [ 1963 ] 1 WLR at p753 .
18 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor .
19 ( a ) where there has been a change in circumstances of an exceptional and specific nature ( but a change in general economic , industrial or political circumstances will not justify failure to proceed with an announced offer ) ;
20 Tell him there has been a change of plan , that you can not be with him tonight . ’
21 No , I think there has been a change .
22 At least , she thought she was — until the day before her flight , when a DSD representative phoned and told her there 'd been a change of plan .
23 A Bill of Parliament received its second reading on 23 March 1930 , but by February 1932 , there had been a change in the government and Mr. Pybus , the new Minister of Transport , decided to drop the Bill .
24 It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move .
25 He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’
26 By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’
27 Simultaneously , it seemed , there had been a change in barometric pressure .
28 The Secretary of State did not tell us that there had been a change in circumstances since the Government rejected the Prior report .
29 Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users .
30 From the clinical notes and manometry report it was determined whether there had been a change of diagnosis , a confirmation of diagnosis , or a change in management .
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