Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [adj] change " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent trends in family therapy have tended to suggest that seeking merely to increase self- and family awareness may be insufficient to bring about effective change within the family dynamic . |
| 2 | Their attempts to bring about political change first of all through breakaway Red Guard factions , then with ‘ Democracy Wall ’ had led to repression . |
| 3 | A closer look at the bourgeoisie , in terms of their social background , relationships with other classes and political opinions , lends support to the argument that , in practice , they are not the class that is going to bring about radical change . |
| 4 | Two major debates surround enterprise zones : there is the whole question of their origin , development and administration , which raises a series of issues in relation to governments ’ ability to bring about radical change ; and , second , and more importantly by the late 1980s , their impact can now be assessed in some detail . |
| 5 | Working together with the poor at home and abroad , Christian Aid , SCIAF and Shelter share the same concerns , this : to bring about lasting change in communities and to give people renewed dignity and hope . |
| 6 | But the strategy of working alongside is more likely to bring about significant change in professional thinking and classroom practice , because the partners have no alternative but to confront questions of planning and organization , and hence to explore each other 's ideas . |
| 7 | Earlier in the day Mr Galloway emphasised that the group would be seeking ‘ peaceful ways ’ to bring about constitutional change . |
| 8 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 9 | As has been implied , the motivation of the regionalist novelists was often extra-literary , the novel being used as a vehicle to draw a particular situation to the eyes of the world , to influence public opinion and , thereby , to bring about social change . |
| 10 | Folk Media and Development Communication : Myths and Realities records and interprets , in a narrative form , how groups of people in three countries tried to bring about social change through traditional or ‘ people 's ’ communication . |
| 11 | Trade Unions are organisations whose purpose it is to promote their members ' interests , and , in the view of many trade unionists , to bring about social change for the betterment of society as a whole . |