Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have changed " in BNC.

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1 THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested .
2 To help their children benefit from schooling , parents need to understand what happens in school , to appreciate that methods of teaching have changed in the 15 or 20 years since they were themselves pupils in an infant or junior classroom .
3 Here is an area where the balance of advantage has changed since 1979 , from union leaders to employers and managers and from the consultative role granted to the unions to one in which they are virtually ignored by the government .
4 This maldistribution of income had changed little by 1900 .
5 Their mode of existence has changed , however : they no longer represent coherent subjects but discourses transmuted through ( metaphoric ) interaction into ‘ poems ’ , ‘ gaps ’ in the text at which the reader is invited to intervene , or deictics with multiple and mutable referents .
6 Smaller , but equally welcome amounts of money have changed hands for pieces of driftwood and other finds worked on by artists and later sold to tourists .
7 Figure 5.1 shows how these forms of provision have changed over time .
8 In two major respects the landscape of industry has changed since Professor Hoskins wrote .
9 The arrival of tea had changed the atmosphere , and Roger cast aside his rather sombre mood and listened with genuine interest while Breeze told him about Felicity .
10 Since Dr Sandage embarked on his quest , the world of cosmology has changed radically .
11 By the end of the seventeenth century , in Newton 's science , the terms of reference had changed .
12 In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history .
13 I hope this does n't cause you a problem , but the rates of benefit have changed very slightly since the first of October ninety one .
14 ‘ With the recession the whole concept of drinking has changed , people are going out less often and drinking more at home .
15 However , this volume , which appeared in 1916 , can remind us how techniques of archaeology have changed over this century , since the volume included hardly any of the small and often illegible coins which have been found and published in the more recent ( 1981 ) volume of Sardis finds .
16 During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace .
17 Also attitudes towards quality of work have changed .
18 In the later work , The Ego and the Id , the instinct theory of psychoanalysis had changed from the two instincts — sexual instincts and ego instincts — which were used in the paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ .
19 The alternative solution is that the structure of ownership had changed little since 1522 , and that most land values recorded at that date represented the profits from subletting customary holdings — mostly in small parcels since the sums involved did not generally exceed ten or twelve shillings .
20 In the debates on the 1968 Planning Bill , the minister said that the climate of opinion had changed .
21 Of course modes of transport have changed and people 's personal choices have widened .
22 For these same reasons , some farmers who were thinking of selling have changed their minds and fewer farms are for sale .
23 Five years of war had changed him , soured him .
24 The strong presumption of guilt has changed to a stronger presumption of innocence .
25 Peter why do you think the erm the Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution have changed their mind ?
26 Something is wrong , so already the image of self has changed .
27 We can see from Table 7.1 that the structure of taxation has changed substantially since 1948 .
28 Orders of magnitude have changed .
29 Indeed , the whole emphasis of education has changed .
30 Whilst the form and degree of criticism has changed over the twentieth century , in essence it has remained the same , with similar international contrasts being drawn .
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