Example sentences of "[art] [adj] changes [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest changes brought about by war were probably in the development of the cloth industry and the rise of the great clothiers to prominence within the English merchant class . |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody can predict what will happen over the next decade , particularly with all the agricultural changes brought about by the EC , but East Anglia can grow some of the best and cheapest grain in Europe and we are well placed to benefit from that ’ . |
| 3 | Disraeli 's Government of India Act of 1858 was introduced as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny , and as a consequence of the administrative changes brought about by that Act , Scott 's brief was considerably extended . |
| 4 | One of the crucial changes brought about by Mrs Thatcher is the attitude of those who have made it and believe that others can do likewise , or , if they fail to do so , are judged as having not really tried . |
| 5 | The physical changes brought about by drugs , alcohol and cigarettes used by a pregnant woman on her unborn child are distressingly obvious . |
| 6 | Age is a powerful basis for segmentation ( a ) because of the physical changes brought about by growth and ageing , and ( b ) because of frequently differing attitudes and preferences between age-groups . |
| 7 | It is the landscape of the cloth industry in the neighbourhood of Halifax before the revolutionary changes brought about by the invention of power-driven machinery : |
| 8 | When news of the wonderful changes brought about in Kidderminster at this time spread , it won the approval of Anabaptists and Independents who hardly believed it possible that such a work of God could take place through the ministry of a parish church . |
| 9 | Whatever the reasons , it is certain that the development of financial conglomerates could not have been fully completed without the radical changes brought about by what in Britain is known as the ‘ Big Bang ’ — the deregulation of the Stock Exchange in October 1986 . |
| 10 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 11 | The massive changes brought about by the ending of the cold war and by the collapse of state mechanism in some Eastern European countries opens up a significant opportunity to undertake work in the very near future . |