Example sentences of "change was " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this change was brought about by pressure from the integrated education movement discussed in the next section . |
| 2 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
| 3 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 4 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 5 | Even as they began , the chief Soviet spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov , was insisting that change was necessary : ‘ Those who delay will be punished by life itself . ’ |
| 6 | Saturday 's name change was the sixth this century , and the previous alterations did not necessarily lead to a radical renewal . |
| 7 | The Chancellor provided no clue on whether any policy change was in prospect during his address , but when asked about joining the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS on the BBC 's Newsnight programme he said : ‘ I have no new announcement to make about that , neither today nor indeed at the Mansion House ’ — referring to his annual speech on monetary policy and City issues at a banquet there next Thursday night . |
| 8 | Radical measures heralded by the Queen 's Speech proliferated as the momentum of change was kept up . |
| 9 | Moreover , it is not true that prior to the nineteenth century ( or eighteenth , depending on when the change was said to occur ) sexual deviance was conceptualized only as a form of behaviour . |
| 10 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 11 | At a time when change was almost synonymous with evil , or at least decline , this was indeed provocative . |
| 12 | Marx 's theory of change was based on the growing contradiction that arose in society between the technological side of production and the social system with which it was associated . |
| 13 | This dramatic change was caused both by the presence of the pairing family and by the introduction of herding and agriculture . |
| 14 | The result of this dramatic change was the nuclear family . |
| 15 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 16 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 17 | The change was welcomed by BHRCA members and , although there was no debate at the AGM before the vote , many spoke afterwards of earlier vigorous debates in the committees which make up the BHRCA . |
| 18 | But he was clear that change was inevitable . |
| 19 | The publication of A Force for Change was crucial because it represented an important internal victory for the reformers , and established glasnost as the principle by which the Met was to be put right . |
| 20 | Bob Keville , chairman of the Lloyd 's Insurance Brokers Committee , predicted the change was ‘ bound to lead to more business coming Lloyd 's way in future . ’ |
| 21 | A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice . |
| 22 | Bob Keville , chairman of the Lloyd 's Insurance Brokers Committee , predicted the change was ‘ bound to lead to more business coming Lloyd 's way in future . ’ |
| 23 | The initiative for the change was British : full-backs , working in tandem , were catching forwards offside so often that games were becoming boring and gates were going down . |
| 24 | Looking at City 's first-half performance at The Dell , he must have wondered if any change was needed at all . |
| 25 | In Britain , the key change was the removal of the ‘ corset ’ on banks in 1980 . |
| 26 | The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ . |
| 27 | Last night his hourly wage , about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins . |
| 28 | WWF says the change was made ‘ to reflect more accurately the conservation work it does ’ . |
| 29 | Climate change was probably important in both extinction and evolution of dolphins . |
| 30 | The budget 's biggest microeconomic change was on another motherhood issue , the treatment of savings . |