Example sentences of "change their " 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 | Some changed their paper-types , and others were persistent readers of a myriad of papers with individual readerships too small for us to analyse ( the Scotsman , the Glasgow Herald , and regional English papers , for example ) . |
| 4 | the argument was continuous and as it developed both sides changed their positions . |
| 5 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Switzerland 's parliamentarians , who until then had favoured continuing restrictions on foreigners , hastily changed their minds . |
| 8 | The Russians changed their minds about intervening ‘ I do n't know how many times , ’ wrote Khrushchev . |
| 9 | As saints became ubiquitous , they also changed their functions . |
| 10 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 11 | They selected Hughes , who was duly elected with an 11,867 majority , but two years ago changed their mind and de-selected him . |
| 12 | Few had considered this and a number who had previously chosen evenings changed their answers after reflecting on this follow-up question . |
| 13 | When they learnt about the money they soon changed their tune . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1893 they changed their name from Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal , adopted professional status and were elected to the Second Division . |
| 16 | Each child had his or her own particular repertoire with a preference for some actions over others , but with time they changed their repertoire . |
| 17 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |
| 18 | But after the sinking of the Sheffield , they changed their minds . |
| 19 | But the horn was blown and the lady of the manor 's bailiff shouted ‘ out on ye ’ three times before they all changed their muddy boots and went home , happy to have maintained tradition for another year . |
| 20 | They consulted each other , they disagreed , they changed their minds . |
| 21 | But that single question , reminding them of who he was and what he represented , chilled the room and changed their mood from fascinated and horrified interest to a slightly embarrassed unease . |
| 22 | However , when scientists first tried to work out how life on Earth got started , they had to perfect their understanding of the original primeval gases , and whether and how such gases changed their nature . |
| 23 | The earlier unicellular species were by now well adapted to their environment , and only changed their biochemical functions because of the genetic ‘ errors ’ , the mutations , that periodically occurred . |
| 24 | I do n't think gay men changed their habits because of advertisements ; we did so , some of us , because we saw our friends dying of it and the horrible effect that it has . |
| 25 | When Adam Peters and Ben Watkins changed their band 's name to Sunsonic they maintained this virtue to release a couple of refined , ambient , floating singles . |
| 26 | The family changed their name to ‘ W ’ . |
| 27 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 28 | 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Also , about ten per cent of those who changed their minds became ‘ do n't knows ’ . |