Example sentences of "change their mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painted around 1806 , it was catalogued as by John Opie ; the auctioneers later changed their minds and attributed it to George Chinnery . |
| 2 | At the start of the campaign people thought it was the main issue being stressed by the Conservatives , but they soon changed their minds . |
| 3 | Dr Nick Barr , senior lecturer in economics at the LSE and co-author of the alternative scheme , said : ‘ It 's very fragile , and there could be a repeat of the New Zealand situation where the banks simply changed their minds , refused to take part , and scuppered the scheme there . ’ |
| 4 | Switzerland 's parliamentarians , who until then had favoured continuing restrictions on foreigners , hastily changed their minds . |
| 5 | The Russians changed their minds about intervening ‘ I do n't know how many times , ’ wrote Khrushchev . |
| 6 | The record , aptly renamed ‘ This Charming Man New York ’ , was originally intended to be a DJ pressing only but Rough Trade changed their minds and issued the offending article nationally . |
| 7 | But after the sinking of the Sheffield , they changed their minds . |
| 8 | They consulted each other , they disagreed , they changed their minds . |
| 9 | Moreover , about eight per cent of those who changed their minds with additional disclosure changed in the Wrong' direction : they made a blind or confused choice rather than a rational decision . |
| 10 | Also , about ten per cent of those who changed their minds became ‘ do n't knows ’ . |
| 11 | So , all in all , only about three-quarters of those who changed their minds with additional information can be said to have genuinely interpreted that information , and made a rational choice . |
| 12 | I can well believe that many Labour supporters changed their minds on polling day after being terrified by newspaper ads warning how much extra tax they would pay under Kinnock ? |
| 13 | Then , suddenly , they changed their minds . |
| 14 | PS : The BBC almost took Pinky & Perky off the air on Election Day for fear of its ‘ political content ’ ( ie the two jolly piglet puppets get into Downing St ) but changed their minds . |
| 15 | Following this manoeuvre some clients changed their minds . |
| 16 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 17 | Or maybe the Ivans changed their minds again and opened up . |
| 18 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 19 | Presumably , if the military or industry changed their minds about the utility of this approach they could withdraw from it . |
| 20 | ‘ They used to pull my leg , but once they 'd had a go they soon changed their minds . ’ |
| 21 | However , on Dec. 17 a motion which the Socialists had helped to draft , to indict Hervé and Dufoix but not Fabius for " failing to assist people in danger " , was blocked when the Socialists changed their minds and refused to vote on the motion as it stood . |
| 22 | The porter planted himself firmly in the aperture , presumably in case they changed their minds . |
| 23 | Well when you 're elected as a councillor , you 've got provision for three years , that 's right , I got re-elected after three years , after three months there they changed their minds and decided to put er , a labour council in , so I mean . |
| 24 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 25 | Councillors had twice rejected proposals for a new village school , but this afternoon they changed their minds and approved it . |
| 26 | But , upon reflection , they changed their minds and decided it would be the right thing to do . |
| 27 | But Teesside Crown Court was told both brothers changed their minds and tried to persuade McEvoy not to go through with the burglary . |
| 28 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 29 | They selected Hughes , who was duly elected with an 11,867 majority , but two years ago changed their mind and de-selected him . |
| 30 | ‘ I certainly do n't want to give the impression that everyone who changed their mind is an adulterer . |