Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] change [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shrimps can live for several years and the average mortality rate in adults within a population is a good predictor of the proportion of individuals within a population which will change sex . |
| 2 | One club who may change venue are tiny Tabard from Hertfordshire , at home to possible First Division champions Northampton . |
| 3 | I am the carbuncle of the sun , the most noble purified earth , through which you may change copper , iron , tin and lead into gold . |
| 4 | When knitting in stripes you must change colour on the correct rows of the card if you are following a written pattern . |
| 5 | In some printers the two are one , and you replace the photoconductor with the toner every time , albeit less frequently than you might change toner cartridges in those printers which maintain the two separately . |
| 6 | After five weeks of hill work , you 'll change hill repeats to fast repeats on a flat surface . |
| 7 | Yeah well I did n't know you could change gear I just thought it was automatic . |
| 8 | 3 A class of words may undergo regular change of form to provide for certain changing circumstances , in particular : ( a ) They may change form because they appear in more than one element of a structure : It is my father ; It is my father 's car . |
| 9 | ( b ) They may change form because of their relationship to some changing word ( or other item ) in the structure , eg the demonstrative this changes to these if dependent , say , on men rather than man . |
| 10 | ( c ) They may change form because they reflect what is for the language being considered , a regularly observed semantic distinction . |
| 11 | They may repeat operations at certain levels , ( a second interview or a re-offer ) ; they may double back , as when the company regrets them and later decides to re-establish contact ; and they may change vacancy . |
| 12 | So that when they come to assessment in the Upper School … they can actually analyse and rationalize why things work and why they do n't , why they should change direction , why they should give up and start again , and why they should logically follow the piece through . |
| 13 | There 's a car coming out so they should change colour . |
| 14 | They might change colour . |
| 15 | In an earlier film directed by Tim Burton , Beetlejuice ( 1988 ) , there are recurrent cuts between the model village built by the Maitlands ( Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ) in their attic and full-size sets of parts of the model when it is inhabited by the eccentric spirit Betelgeuse ( Michael Keaton ) and at times by the Maitlands too — being ghosts , they can change size rather easily , if involuntarily . |
| 16 | Or , it may change position in the word , as in " I am fourteen " and " I have fourteen classmates " . |
| 17 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |