I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a career change/move
▪ After ten years in the job, I realized that I needed to make a career change.
a change in temperature
▪ The oil is affected by changes in temperature.
a change in the rules
▪ I didn’t realise that there had been a change in the rules.
a change of address (=a new address when you move to a different place)
▪ You need to inform your bank if there’s been a change of address.
a change of clothes
▪ He only took a small bag with a change of clothes.
a change of emphasis (also a shift in emphasis)
▪ There has been a change of emphasis in the government’s foreign policy.
a change of mood
▪ Michael underwent one of his sudden changes of mood.
a change of plan
▪ The day before my flight, my boss phoned and said there’d been a change of plan.
a change of tactics
▪ They trailed 2–1 at half time, but a change of tactics brought a 3–2 win.
a change of/in policy
▪ This decision represented a major change in policy.
a change/shift in focus
▪ Over the years, there has been a change of focus from treatment to prevention.
a changing climate
▪ A changing climate will bring rising tides.
a dramatic change
▪ The Internet has brought dramatic changes to the way we work.
a fundamental change
▪ A fundamental change is needed in the voting system.
a lifestyle change
▪ There are many ways in which we can save energy without making dramatic lifestyle changes.
a percentage increase/change
▪ Poorer pensioners experienced the greatest percentage increase in their pensions.
a policy change
▪ There have been numerous policy changes in recent months.
a radical change
▪ If that offer is serious, it will mark a radical change in policy.
a situation changes
▪ The situation could change very rapidly.
abrupt change
▪ an abrupt change of plan
agent for/of change
▪ Technological advances are the chief agents of change.
amend/change the constitution (=make changes to it)
▪ Congress amended the constitution more than 300 times during 1992.
anticipate changes/developments
▪ The schedule isn’t final, but we don’t anticipate many changes.
bureau de change
call for a change
▪ Scientists are calling for a change in the law.
change a baby (=change its nappy)
▪ Could you change the baby for me?
change a bed (=put clean sheets on it)
▪ You should change the beds at least once a fortnight.
change a nappy (=take off a baby's dirty nappy and put on a clean one)
▪ My husband hardly ever changes the baby's nappies.
change a tyre
▪ I have never changed a tyre or looked under a bonnet.
change career
▪ People may change careers as many as seven times in their lives.
change channels
▪ Use the remote control to change channels.
change direction (=start to go in a different direction)
▪ Suddenly the birds changed direction.
change for the better
▪ a definite change for the better
change gear (also switch/shift gears American English)
▪ It takes some time to learn when to change gear.
change of life
change purse
change sb's outlook
▪ None of my arguments could change his outlook or behavior.
change the course of history (=do something that has many important effects)
▪ Roosevelt and Churchill helped to change the course of history.
change the focus
▪ He changed the focus from general to specific issues.
change the sheets (=put clean sheets on a bed)
change the subject (=start talking about something different)
▪ She tried to change the subject.
change your behaviour (also modify your behaviourformal)
▪ He has no reason to change his behaviour.
change your clothes
▪ I usually change my clothes as soon as I get home from work.
change (your) course (=at university or college)
▪ Some students choose to change their course after the first year.
change your expression
▪ The child did not once cry or change her expression.
change your habits
▪ It's sometimes difficult for people to change their habits.
change your lifestyle
▪ You can help prevent heart disease by changing your lifestyle.
change your name
▪ Many immigrants changed their names to seem more American.
change your plans
▪ We had to change our plans at the last minute.
change your position
▪ Since then, the party has changed its position.
change your story
▪ During police interviews, Harper changed his story several times.
change your will (=change some of the instructions in your will)
▪ Marius had decided to change his will in her favour.
change/alter the appearance of sth
▪ The proposed dam will change the appearance of the surrounding countryside enormously.
change/alter the course of sth
▪ The incident changed the course of the election.
change/alter/shift the balance
▪ Will this alter the balance of power in the EU?
▪ His appointment shifted the government’s balance decisively to the right.
change/break the habits of a lifetime (=stop doing the things you have done for many years)
▪ It is hard to change the habits of a lifetime, but you must eat more healthily or you will have a heart attack.
change/convert currency (=change money from one currency to another)
▪ There’s usually a charge for converting currencies.
changed lanes
▪ That idiot changed lanes without signalling.
changed tack
▪ Rudy changed tack, his tone suddenly becoming friendly.
changed...diaper
▪ I changed her diaper.
changed...name by deed poll
▪ Steve changed his name by deed poll to Elvis Presley-Smith.
change...fuse
▪ I taught him how to change a fuse.
change/replace the battery (=put a new battery in sth)
▪ You may need to change the battery in the smoke alarm.
change/shift your position
▪ He shifted his position to get a better view of the stage.
change/switch tactics
▪ Manchester United switched tactics in the second half.
changing room
Changing Rooms
changing table
climate change (=a permanent change in weather conditions)
▪ The world must reduce the emissions that cause climate change.
constantly changing
▪ The English language is constantly changing.
constitutional reform/change/amendment
▪ a proposal for constitutional reform
cultural change
▪ These were decades of rapid cultural change.
detect a change/difference
▪ Dan detected a change in her mood.
Drastic changes
▪ Drastic changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.
far-reaching reforms/proposals/changes
▪ The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy.
happen/appear/change overnight
▪ Reputations are not changed overnight.
impending changes
▪ impending changes in government legislation
Initiatives of Change
make a welcome change
▪ Six months in Scotland would make a welcome change from London.
moves/plans/changes afoot
▪ There were plans afoot for a second attack.
noticeable difference/change/increase etc
▪ a noticeable improvement in air quality
pocket change
▪ The money is nothing – pocket change to them.
rapid change
▪ The labour market has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years.
rapidly growing/changing/expanding etc
▪ the rapidly changing world of technology
refreshing change
▪ It made a refreshing change to talk to someone new.
regime change
represent a change/an advance/an increase etc
▪ This treatment represents a significant advance in the field of cancer research.
resist change
▪ People resist change because they fear the unknown.
sb's mood changes
▪ Then his mood changed, and he laughed.
sb’s attitude changes
▪ As you get older, your attitude changes.
sb’s priorities change
▪ As you get older, your priorities may change.
sb’s view changes
▪ Your view about these things changes as you get older.
sea change
▪ a sea change in attitudes
sex change
step change
▪ The new law marks a step change in our programme for reforming public services.
subject to change
▪ Prices are subject to change.
sudden change
▪ a sudden change in the weather
sweeping changes/cuts/reforms etc
▪ They want to make sweeping changes to education policies.
the atmosphere changes
▪ New owners bought the hotel and the whole atmosphere changed.
the focus changes/shifts
▪ The focus of the negotiations shifted to working conditions.
the pace of change
▪ The pace of change accelerated dramatically in the early 1980s.
the wind changes (=starts blowing from a different direction)
▪ The wind had to change before his fighting ships could sail against the Spanish.
things change
▪ Things have changed dramatically over the last few years.
undergo a change
▪ The equipment has undergone several important design changes in recent years.
unforeseen circumstances/events/changes etc
▪ Due to unforeseen circumstances, the play has been cancelled.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
constantly
▪ The composition of the village was constantly changing as a result of short-distance mobility.
▪ The bonus of having to traverse a network of constantly changing roads?
▪ And clubs can't help cashing in - by constantly changing the colour and style of their football strips.
▪ Now, to make it even more interesting, have the cars maintain the same close spacing but constantly change their formation.
▪ However, points may be redeemed only against certain products, which are constantly changing.
▪ It was impossible to feel loyalty to the constantly changing environment.
▪ The scene will keep constantly changing.
▪ In our constantly changing, global, highly technological society, collaboration is a necessity.
dramatically
▪ Since the Earth began, 4.5 billion years ago, its atmosphere has changed dramatically.
▪ The demographics of our population have changed dramatically over the past half-century, and particularly so over the last decade.
▪ By 1988, however, the picture had changed dramatically.
▪ But all that has changed dramatically.
▪ The western diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades.
▪ Those new standards, the product of years of work, will dramatically change the way students are taught in California.
▪ Baits Once again this area has changed dramatically in the past 12 years.
▪ The dynamic is going to change dramatically.
little
▪ But his replacement could change little.
▪ It was little changed at Y142.00.
▪ The dollar was little changed against the yen during Tokyo trading, and the government bond market barely moved.
▪ And it's changed little over the centuries.
▪ Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.
▪ Compared with yesterday the bond was little changed, after closing at 106. 50.
radically
▪ Frustration can easily occur unless members radically change their thinking to view the church-as-a-force.
▪ It was also a sign that the days of love-ins were about to change radically.
▪ In the not-so-distant future, technology will continue to change radically what we see and how we see it.
▪ By the age of 30 his work had changed radically and he withdrew all his previously published music.
▪ Mayor Michael Albano has said he wants to radically change the department.
▪ Such an unpleasant and unanticipated development radically changes the situation, and further and more profound explanations are clearly called for.
▪ Knowing that governments have lost their ability to shorten recessions also radically changes expectations.
rapidly
▪ For instance, the intended subjects are boxes of plants which remain in place and do not change rapidly.
▪ Now the rapidly changing workplace meant men had to retool routinely too.
▪ Society was changing rapidly even if institutions like the Anglo-dominated education system were slow to admit it.
▪ They make it impossible to respond to rapidly changing environments.
▪ Come the mid-i980s, however, things were changing rapidly.
▪ You ought to be viewing your product as a startup company might view whatever it was offering in a rapidly changing market.
▪ On the other hand, things can change rapidly there.
▪ Most businesses will compete globally iD. a rapidly changing world.
■ NOUN
attitude
▪ Police procedures change, and even police attitudes change over the years.
▪ Within the decade his attitudes begin to change.
▪ In the last few years, attitudes have changed and society now expects smokers to wipe out 70 years of brainwashing overnight.
▪ But such attitudes may be changing.
▪ Today that landscape is changing, as attitudes have changed.
▪ During and after the Reformation, attitudes changed more quickly.
▪ But, despite the attractions of mobility, attitudes can be changed, or at least modified.
▪ Yet, although attitudes changed, the central problem remained.
behaviour
▪ Politicians only change their behaviour when they feel threatened.
▪ They may also insist that the other spouse change their behaviour so that it would be more consistent with their own.
▪ Instead you pick the most likely payoff and test to see if altering it changes the pattern of behaviour.
▪ To change behaviour requires tactics that match the complexity of the causes.
▪ It is likely to be more difficult to change attitudes or behaviour through advertising than to reinforce them.
▪ If you want me to change my behaviour then I need to perceive some advantage in doing so.
▪ Remember that people can change their behaviour but not their personalities.
▪ Our results also suggest that awareness is not enough to change behaviour.
course
▪ The Brazos River in Texas is said to change its course abruptly once every ten years or so.
▪ Not everyone changed, of course.
▪ But Steve Martin did not change course for a second.
▪ He could carry out the intricate navigational corrections, and execute the necessary flight maneuvers when it was time to change course.
▪ The influence of the three High Elf Mages changed the course of the war.
▪ That was changing, of course, as everything did.
▪ About a mile away from me they change course and turn back slowly in graceful, wide curves.
direction
▪ She left there just before the birth of their first child, and proceeded to change direction yet again.
▪ Even the great Jim Brown used to change directions occasionally.
▪ It works on the principle that the pursuer will not be able to change direction as efficiently as the prey.
▪ As the light slows down, it also changes direction a little.
▪ Don't younger people move, have babies, and otherwise change direction?
▪ It was a dark night with just a glimmer of stars and a light and fickle wind which frequently changed direction.
▪ Films rather than books were the medium to aim for-fair comment, of course, that helped me change direction.
▪ A frustrated teacher changed career directions and obtained a position as a training officer in industry.
face
▪ Ambush marketing has changed the face of sport and sport sponsorship.
▪ Version 3.0 and the further improved 3.1 version of Microsoft Windows have changed the face of modern Personal Computing.
▪ The newer, so-called atypical medicines are helping change the face of mental illness, experts agree.
▪ The M-forty extension through fifty nine miles of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire has changed the face of the countryside.
▪ In the course of doing so he could change the face of Britain.
▪ In 2001 compulsory quotas has changed the face of the rightwing opposition.
habit
▪ They will have to change old habits and acquire new ones.
▪ They say revolution begins at home, and right now Robert Redford is trying to get you to change your viewing habits.
▪ The difficulty with habits is that they are difficult to change.
▪ They did not change their exercise habits.
▪ This makes the assumption, of course, that the plants have not changed their habits since they were fossilized.
▪ Feedback is critical to changing writing habits.
▪ I like the way it emphasises changing eating habits, along with exercising, too.
▪ He changed his habits eventually and became a college president.
law
▪ If the federal government is to change the law, it will need to act quickly, while the outrage lasts.
▪ The judges ruled that it was the job of Parliament, not the courts, to change the law.
▪ They also worry about the law changing.
▪ When they change the law Spike and I will marry immediately.
▪ There hasn't been an effort to change the law since.
▪ A collection of such material should enhance our knowledge of the factors which contributed to change in law and society.
▪ An affronted Legislature has changed the law so that Texas governments can no longer sue those seeking records.
life
▪ It has changed my life, and the lives of my family, my friends and the people I work with.
▪ Many of those involved with Black Mountain say that their courses with Albers changed their lives.
▪ Revenge and the search for justice change the life of Jimmie Rainwood played by Tom Selleck.
▪ Q: If you could change anything in your life right now, what would it be?
▪ This show was to change my life ... for ever.
▪ Now I know that we live in a wonderful era where you can change your life script.
▪ But she won't let her megabucks prize change her life ... it's only worth £160.30p.
▪ What do you need to change in your life to begin that kind of work?
mind
▪ But I can't say I'd changed my mind about Celebrity Golf.
▪ I changed my mind when everything started to end.
▪ What tragedies must occur before he and the Minister of State will change their minds?
▪ She would run a little, try to mount, change her mind and slow down again.
▪ If Brian agrees to buy the car, then changes his mind, can he withdraw his acceptance?
▪ Assigned to command the assault, Cogney had also changed his mind.
▪ I go curly I get jealous I act reasonable I change my mind.
▪ Exit polls also found that one in four voters had at one time supported Dole but changed their minds.
name
▪ Perhaps you could change your name to Gamboge Yellow and be a different person.
▪ You can change this user name is you wish.
▪ And of course she did not change my name.
▪ Perhaps he should change his name to Loan Hart, it would be more modern.
▪ She changed her name and moved to Atlanta.
▪ Elga Group has changed its name to Protean and has acquired Carbolite, the electric furnace and oven specialist.
▪ Better he should change his first name from Placido to Rapido.
plan
▪ He's had to change his plans, that's all.
▪ Faircloth is hoping this will change, once a plan to market the program to students is completed.
▪ No logical reason, he wrote, but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun.
▪ Response was so small, however, that she changed her plan.
▪ Your welcome may change my plans.
▪ But there are others who vehemently oppose changing the general plan designation in either area.
▪ We could phone and say we've changed our plans.
▪ No one can change their retirement plans quickly.
policy
▪ Overnight, after the election, it changed its policy on coal.
▪ The World was offered and turned down $ 350, 000 to change its shrill policy.
▪ Similarly, changing dividend policy to yield more cash for investment needs to be handled with care.
▪ He believed that the government recognized that it must change its policy since the old policy had not worked.
▪ Directors said yesterday they had decided to change investment accounting policy to charge the provisions as exceptional rather than extraordinary.
▪ Those who thought that President Herrera had changed his policy toward the United States now had their answer.
▪ It had changed half its policies, modernised its machine, replaced two leaders.
▪ Sensenbrenner and the team decided to see if they could change the policy.
rule
▪ The decision to change the rules of precedent in the House of Lords was not a sudden one.
▪ A bipartisan drive to change the rules for financing federal campaigns is running into stiff resistance from veteran members of Congress.
▪ They also changed their rules of gathering, confining themselves to a fortnightly meeting during Parliament's sessions.
▪ Get a free hand to change work rules.
▪ Then they changed the rules, so they did the program again.
▪ Second, the International put in a new man, Joe Manley, as secretary-treasurer, and changed the election rules.
▪ Then they changed the rules again, so they did the program again.
▪ Congress should resist the calls to change the rules in the middle of this game.
situation
▪ The advent of a national curriculum in this country may change this situation.
▪ But a few things are being done to change the situation.
▪ How can those women who do become conscious of their predicament act to change their situation?
▪ There was nothing I could do to change my situation.
▪ I later realised I had missed a major opportunity for helping change the situation.
▪ Industries in the United States, like those all over the world, are faced with a changing regulatory situation.
▪ Step 9 Be quite clear in your mind how your child must change in order for the situation to improve.
▪ In addition, a child who is aware of her anger is more likely to take assertive action to change her situation.
subject
▪ With children ... And I hastily changed the subject.
▪ They changed the subject by noting their prosecution of some highly publicized cases against the Klan and other white supremacist organizations.
▪ He should have finished at university long ago, but he kept taking extra courses, changing subjects and things.
▪ But after a minute or two Peter would change the subject on me again.
▪ Then Patrick changed the subject and when they were all away on the new tack he took Rain aside.
▪ And when I said nothing more, she abruptly changed the subject.
▪ Sometimes we deliberately flout the charge to be relevant: to signal embarrassment or a desire to change the subject.
▪ Like Mondale, he had to take a risk to change the subject and refocus attention.
system
▪ We have less than two months to train people and change our computer systems over the Easter period.
▪ Such vouchers would indeed be a step toward changing the system by creating market-type controls on the demand side of the market.
▪ I hope that a Labour Government will change that system.
▪ Our present system is analogue and the requirement for computer system links and data transmission may justify changing to a digital system.
▪ It will take a lot of time and work to achieve substantive changes in the regulatory system.
▪ More and more are going into politics with the specific intention of working to change the present unjust system.
▪ He also proposes a bipartisan commission to examine the issue as the best politically possible way to change the system.
things
▪ But today, after the disaster that has befallen a very traditional Labour strategy, things may change.
▪ But for as long as there's an Oxford University, some things will never change.
▪ The more things change, the more they stay the same.
▪ So things have changed, and the change is reflected, as Snow would have wished, in the school curriculum.
▪ He finds things have changed drastically since he graduated in 1974.
▪ In the 1980s, however, things have changed.
▪ You never know. Things change all the time.
times
▪ The groups are struggling to change with the times.
▪ I think I have changed machines more times than my husband has changed cars!
▪ Throughout the first half, the teams trade baskets, with the lead changing ten times.
▪ What acts may be considered usual for a firm of solicitors will change with the times.
▪ This revamping is geared toward helping workers adapt to changing times.
▪ Their design had been changed several times before they were finally erected.
▪ Since the cases drag on for years, the rules can change two or three times in the course of one case.
way
▪ I was hoping that perhaps human beings would change their ways after reading the stories of my life with the Houys.
▪ They are playing appropriately coy, but there are some changes in the way each man approaches the issue.
▪ In fact, there were lots of things she'd like to change about the way she looked, she reflected ruefully.
▪ Those new standards, the product of years of work, will dramatically change the way students are taught in California.
▪ The change was so significant that it actually changed the way people thought about their documents.
▪ The Factory Commission might find them all better jobs, or change the way the mill was run.
▪ The arsenal ship also may change the way the Navy buys warships in the future.
world
▪ But that changed with the Second World War.
▪ But changing the World Series to a neutral site would be a much more fundamental change than any of these.
▪ Man has greatly changed himself as a person in the same period of time by changing the world in which he lives.
▪ All this points to a sea change in the world of computers and cyberspace.
▪ They were determined to change the world.
▪ That was what had changed in the world.
▪ However, there was little doubt that it would happen, and that this revolution will change the world.
▪ The public health infrastructure of this country is poorly prepared for the emerging disease problems of a rapidly changing world.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Perhaps you've finally begun to change, Julius.
▪ But during the seventeenth century this traditional ordering of rank began to change.
▪ Rhythms in old age With increasing age, our daily rhythms begin to change.
▪ By World War I, new technology allowed the introduction of open-pit mining, and the face of Bisbee began changing for ever.
▪ In the second half the work began to change dramatically.
▪ But as we have seen, the way pentecostals explained the meaning of tongue speaking began to change almost immediately.
▪ Ford began changing the way it treated its suppliers in 1980 by rating them for qual ity.
▪ But when she accompanies Diana to the ancient Tower Abbey, she begins to change her mind.
force
▪ The move is not designed to penalise smokers or to force them to change.
▪ Years later, Dong disclosed to me his objective had simply been to force Diem to change.
▪ Quite suddenly, she forced Jacqui to change position.
▪ The recent investigations, revelations, and indictments have forced the industry to change the way it conducted business for 150 years.
▪ Now this has been forced to change.
▪ We must try to understand this, and how quantum theory forces us to change our view of physical reality.
▪ In doing so the literary canon is forced to change.
▪ Hence anticipatory governments have been forced to change the incentives that drive their leaders.
need
▪ Could she claim that he needed changing?
▪ Just because some fellow employees have gone petty does not mean that you need to change your behavior.
▪ You do not need to start changing your health-related habits until this preparation phase of one or two weeks is complete.
▪ Still others realized that they wanted to do the same kind of work, but needed to change how they did it.
▪ In this country we have a process that desperately needs changing.
▪ She realized that to use effectively the skills she enjoyed she would need to change her role in the school.
▪ From the difficult aspects - perhaps family relationships, money or health - we find out what needs to change.
▪ Things need to change for cowboys.
try
▪ Instead of trying to change old attitudes we can set out to design new ones which are not descendants of the old ones.
▪ So it is that my wife, after more than 30 years of marriage, is trying to change me.
▪ They are trying to change me into one of themselves.
▪ If you are trying to change to a completely different field you should use a functional resume.
▪ You've tried to change everything about her.
▪ Margarett tried to change Shaw, and he tried to change her.
▪ With tight defence budgets, Trinidad is trying to change the law to make use of seized assets a priority.
▪ Margarett tried to change Shaw, and he tried to change her.
want
▪ Something that wants to change me ... something that wants me to change it.
▪ He looks like some one who would make you want to change seats if he sat next to you on a bus.
▪ Mitchell wanted to change the not-for-profit model and move to a more commercial approach.
▪ You have to want to change and also believe that you can change.
▪ The main criticism seems to be that he wanted to change things, forms of service and such like.
▪ He is seen as being from the left of the party and he wants to change that.
▪ In general this only a problem if you want to change leads with a weaker climber.
▪ It now focuses only on schools that want to change.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a changed man/woman
▪ Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
▪ My father came back from the war a changed man.
▪ She returned from her travel a changed woman.
▪ But when he came home he was a changed man.
▪ He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
▪ He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
▪ He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
▪ Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
▪ Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
a chunk of change
▪ Lurie risked a pretty big chunk of change on the race.
a leopard can't change its spots
change gear
▪ Any cyclist can climb a difficult hill: you just change gear.
▪ Every ten minutes or so she would hear the tortured scream of the transmission and randomly change gears.
▪ Mark's idea of getting her to change gear was to slip on a nurse's uniform.
▪ Russ Armstrong, a Middlesbrough motorcycle dealer, has also changed gear after 18 years of the road racing power game.
▪ They saw Jekub roll backwards, change gear with a roar, and attack the truck again.
▪ Volkov changed gear and increased his speed.
▪ We must now change gear somewhat, and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations.
▪ You need to be able to move swiftly, changing gears and learning new skills without complaining.
change your mind
▪ But if students actively dislike school, higher standards and better assessments are not going to change their minds.
▪ But why Zeus changed his mind and whether Prometheus revealed the secret when he was freed, we do not know.
▪ Carruthers, I don't know what will happen now, but I have changed my mind.
▪ Good software gives you the power to change your mind.
▪ He knew what he had to do and he got up and did it before he changed his mind.
▪ Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board.
▪ Schlesinger first thought him wrong for Ratso, but changed his mind when they met in New York.
▪ When he met Lee the next morning at nine, he said he had changed his mind about going back.
loose change
▪ A sharp eyed youngster should have no difficulty in spotting the loose change, that so often litter such areas.
▪ Arnold bought the club out of loose change.
▪ Bunny felt in his pocket, fiddling for loose change.
▪ Carry some loose change to make emergency public telephone calls.
▪ I fished around in my handbag, coming up with some loose change.
▪ Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.
▪ Pockets were emptied of loose change, parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent.
▪ She would bring her loose change to Rachaela for translation into fifty-pence pieces and pounds.
move/change/keep up with the times
▪ Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
▪ The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
small change
▪ All this is very small change but very typical of our brother.
▪ Even back then forty-five cents was small change.
▪ For each member of the group, a small change of habit was the first step to an identity of its own.
▪ However, it does result in small changes in the tabulated values of the molar entropies of gases.
▪ Investors holding ninety-day Treasury bills experience very small changes in the value of those bills as interest rates fluctuate.
▪ Such small changes are invaluable in giving themes renewed vitality, while at the same time preserving unity.
▪ Try some of these steps: Make some small changes first.
▪ Very small changes make the biggest difference.
spare change
▪ A spare change of underclothing is desirable for those who value comfort.
▪ Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash.
▪ The bottom line: That guy on the street asking for spare change is actually doing you a favor.
vary/change etc from sth to sth
▪ Also, because it is a natural product, its textures may vary from one batch to the next.
▪ Like telephone charges, they can be varied from day to day and between evenings and rush hours.
▪ Only Limavady changed from unionist to nationalist hands, and Magherafelt moved from no overall majority to nationalist control.
▪ Since then virtually every small printer, and most large ones, have changed from metal to film.
▪ The change from flute to piccolo or viceversa occupies only a few seconds.
▪ The duties and powers of deans vary from university to university.
▪ The lower limits of normal for serum uric acid are arbitrarily defined and may vary from one lab to another.
▪ The prices vary from circuit to circuit, but as a rule they range from £30 for a session to £300.
winds of change/freedom/public opinion etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Have you got your bathing suit on?" "No, I'll change when we get there."
▪ "The telecommunications industry is changing at lightning speed," said Richard Miller, the company's chief financial officer.
▪ Agriculture must be changed to reduce damage to the environment.
▪ All drivers should really know how to change a flat tire.
▪ Can you change a $10 bill?
▪ Can you change this light bulb for me? I can't reach.
▪ Do you mind waiting while I change my clothes?
▪ Ed went into the bedroom to change out of his work clothes.
▪ Going to college changed him a lot. It made him much more mature.
▪ Going to college really changed my life.
▪ Having a baby changes your life completely, whatever your age.
▪ Her expression did not change, and she answered me calmly.
▪ How does the President plan to change the tax system?
▪ I'll just change my shirt and I'll be with you in a minute.
▪ I'm just going upstairs to change.
▪ I can't believe it's been ten years - you haven't changed at all.
▪ I think the batteries need changing.
▪ I tried to follow him but he kept changing direction.
▪ If the trousers are the wrong size you can always change them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As people in other staff agencies sought to perform differently and better they also improvised, learned, and changed.
▪ But he will change course if the market demands it.
▪ Each has the right to change its status in this respect, subject to relevant agreements and procedures.
▪ It is rugged country whose landscape changes every few kilometers.
▪ The bill requires health insurers to maintain coverage for anybody who changes or loses his job.
▪ This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
▪ What tragedies must occur before he and the Minister of State will change their minds?
▪ You have changed, Joan de Warenne, she thought.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ This year too was important for the Range Rover, with the biggest changes since its unveiling.
▪ This is a big change from Cleveland, but more like what I was used to in college.
▪ Perhaps the biggest change of all, though, has been in the City's population.
▪ The biggest change involves 6-5, 315-pound rookie Darrell Russell making his first start.
▪ To summarise therefore, a big change, but a happy one, and a bright future in the Norfolk countryside.
▪ The biggest visible changes will probably be seen in television programming.
▪ The biggest change in the band came when Dee Dee left in 1989 to become, of all things, a rapper.
constitutional
▪ Let us, then, deal with this second aspect of the Labour Party's proposals for constitutional change.
▪ Silvio Berlusconi and a group of Catholic parties want a widely based government to work on constitutional changes.
▪ That is why Liberal Democrats are putting constitutional change at the heart of our election campaign.
▪ Does he rule out any constitutional change?
▪ This was completely different from any idea of grandiose constitutional changes.
▪ Unfortunately, under present rules, such a constitutional change needs parliament's consent.
▪ This would effectively give the white population a veto on all constitutional changes.
▪ More significantly, Walesa's proposals for constitutional change were withdrawn, after amendments had weakened them.
dramatic
▪ Changes have certainly taken place, often dramatic and painful changes, involving exploitations and deprivations.
▪ The case touches upon decades of tradition in Dubuque, and dramatic changes affecting health care nationwide.
▪ Anyone who has kept track of developments in this field would easily notice a dramatic change in the government's approach.
▪ Then, during the prosperity of the 1950s, a dramatic change took place.
▪ Instead, he left Grobbelaar's critics in no doubt that there will be no dramatic changes in that department tonight.
▪ He added that she couldn't achieve dramatic change alone.
▪ However, even in monolinguals, dramatic changes of persona are quite possible.
▪ True, it has increased 25 percent in the last generation, but this is hardly the dramatic change commonly depicted.
drastic
▪ But now even bigger and more drastic changes are on the horizon.
▪ To hold otherwise would mark a drastic change in our understanding of the Constitution.
▪ This, in effect, would outlaw the inflationary creation of money - a drastic change, if it happens.
▪ Since any small area is exposed to drastic attrition or change, these isolated species are the most frequently endangered.
▪ The present idiotic trends can not go on for ever, and there could soon be drastic changes.
▪ But the emotional impact of drastic life changes can never be wholly sorted out in advance.
▪ If it's a drastic change you're after, take your time and choose a new style carefully.
▪ Unions will disappear entirely or undergo drastic change.
economic
▪ A key concept in understanding such major shifts, and relating them to wider economic change, is uneven development.
▪ The state has become a microcosm of the economic change that has gripped the nation.
▪ The term economic hides the fundamental point that economic change is at the same time social change.
▪ Two further general observations can be made about the view of economic change that is held by Bell and other post-industrial writers.
▪ One is its association with the rather questionable linear model of economic change proposed by Fisher and Clark.
▪ This chapter has brought together many of the negative features of economic change in 1980s Britain.
▪ Perhaps it was unrealistic to expect dramatic economic changes.
fundamental
▪ Bagehot's work continued to be regarded as an authoritative work long after the Constitution had undergone fundamental change.
▪ It is a costly myth, however that organization alignment must precede fundamental change.
▪ The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but didn't fully implement it.
▪ In other words, they are afraid of fundamental change.
▪ With such fundamental changes involved, a business can only be as strong as its weakest link.
▪ Doing so, however meant managing their way through a period of fundamental change.
▪ Six major points require fundamental design changes, perhaps costing as much as £60 million.
▪ In this regard, fundamental changes are required in organizational patterns of scientific and technological activities in the region.
important
▪ Most legal experts believe that few, if any, further important changes affecting company pension schemes are likely to ensue.
▪ There have been two important changes in the recent empirical studies of political participation.
▪ The most important change must be the abandonment of tariffs, and the freeing of international food exchange.
▪ Perhaps the most important change in Netscape Version 2 is its ability to run programs written in the Java programming language.
▪ Some observers suggest that important changes have already occurred.
▪ But the most important change of all needs to take place in public and government attitudes towards mental illness.
▪ We can identify a number of important changes which have occurred: 1.
▪ There is a big demand from social workers for more information about several important benefit changes.
major
▪ Table 17.3 illustrates a number of major changes: 1.
▪ If you are wrong, the outcome could be a positive learning experience instead of a major career change.
▪ But there's been a major change to this familiar scene.
▪ The major changes will be in the food and establishing a more casual, diner-friendly atmosphere.
▪ While it is true that no major changes have been made to the constitution, this is not through want of trying.
▪ An attempt to pass a Republican budget that includes major changes in Medicare may occur again next month.
▪ This does not have to be a major change, but it will be a shift of some kind.
▪ From the 1950s to the 1990s radical changes in teaching styles reflect major changes in social and cultural values.
political
▪ This assumption makes it easier to understand some of the sudden political changes in south-eastern Britain.
▪ He and Bourboulon could work toward the same objective, largely because of political changes then evolving in Paris.
▪ Unemployment was obviously a factor in bringing about both long-term and short-term political changes.
▪ There is substantial political energy inherent in the lower classes, and they are the active agents of major political change.
▪ In large part, Labour was successful because it responded more effectively to political and structural change.
▪ This political sea change coincided with the most dramatic incident to have occurred on the Hinkley Point site since it started operation.
▪ True, they were seeking certain renewed observances, certain reforms and certain political changes.
radical
▪ In the next decade, microcomputers will stimulate radical changes in every part of the educational system.
▪ But sometimes one longs for her to try a radical change in direction.
▪ They need time to digest radical change, otherwise their immediate reaction is negative.
▪ Even a few years earlier, the prospect of radical change in the Roman Catholic Church was virtually unimaginable.
▪ What is more, protein from plants can be cheap and need not involve you in too much radical diet change.
▪ The fortunes of the young are always the most affected by radical economic change.
▪ It is tempting to underestimate the scale and radical nature of changes occurring around us, socially or geographically.
▪ These radical changes, designed to make work more rewarding, were not confined to the tax system.
rapid
▪ However, rapid changes are sweeping the sector and trends remain flexible.
▪ They come into existence after relatively brief periods of rapid change in a small sub-population of a pre-existing species.
▪ This is an important and relatively rapid change.
▪ The key point of contention is how much change is prudent in the military, and how rapid that change should be.
▪ In a world of rapid change they never change.
▪ But in a time of rapid change it is difficult always to separate the two.
▪ Video showing rapid and intensive change, for example, will need frequent reference frames to maintain an intelligible motion sequence.
▪ It is also open-ended, in the sense of being always subject to rapid change due to innovation and importation.
recent
▪ This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life.
▪ Many of the recent suggestions for change have sought to whittle down that authority.
▪ Solidarity, quite rightly, sees the recent changes as its victory.
▪ First and foremost, we are intentionally considering a limited subset of the potential causes of recent longer-term climate change.
▪ Or are they reflecting growing disaffection among scientists with recent changes in their profession?
▪ No recent change in status is apparent.
▪ There have been many recent changes in government intervention programmes causing damaging uncertainty.
▪ Which of the many recent changes played the major part in the university disturbances of the early 1860s is unclear.
significant
▪ One very significant change from Morgan we can attribute to Marx.
▪ No significant playing rules changes are in the works.
▪ Those changes essentially relate to a slimming down in the industry itself, but also to significant structural changes.
▪ The most significant and expensive changes are those that go into effect Oct. 1 of this year.
▪ Recent reforms could bring about significant changes in the organisation of the National Health Service and in the delivery of care.
▪ The threat of lawsuits by itself is a major factor in driving up health care costs. Significant changes are definitely needed.
▪ The net result of these antagonistic effects was that no significant change in soluble calcium was observed.
▪ During adulthood significant changes in sleep occur.
small
▪ For each member of the group, a small change of habit was the first step to an identity of its own.
▪ But it does permit small changes to take place and accumulate from one generation to the next.
▪ All this is very small change but very typical of our brother.
▪ Even back then forty-five cents was small change.
▪ You're talking about small financial change across Oxfordshire.
▪ But such gestures are small change.
▪ Some small changes could well assist the introduction of electric vehicles to the market.
▪ Investors holding ninety-day Treasury bills experience very small changes in the value of those bills as interest rates fluctuate.
social
▪ Such periods will often be found to correspond with times of particularly stressful social change for the individual.
▪ Instead, it will be a vehicle for gradual, quiet yet profound social change.
▪ The transformation in earlier health patterns brought about by social and medical change is obvious, and can be expected to continue.
▪ Historians study social change and they focus on particular events for their data.
▪ Rapid social change sweeps away centuries-old ways of doing things, creating stress and insecurity.
▪ In spite of victory, Britain's participation in two world wars accelerated social changes, altering both social attitudes and power relations.
▪ There are always two tasks for professionals involved in social change: to change society for the better and to change attitudes.
▪ Further impending changes in government legislation may make the pressure experienced during the social security changes seem almost normal.
structural
▪ These proposals for major structural changes had considerable appeal.
▪ But incremental changes for women, important as they are to individuals, are not structural changes.
▪ Those changes essentially relate to a slimming down in the industry itself, but also to significant structural changes.
▪ Then, structural changes should be made.
▪ In large part, Labour was successful because it responded more effectively to political and structural change.
▪ This could have provided opportunities for structural change and review.
▪ This is the primary reason why it has proved so hard to achieve structural change in many areas.
sudden
▪ Depression is sometimes brought on by a sudden change in one's life, such as coming into a Home.
▪ A sudden change in water temperature can also be lethal.
▪ What they hadn't bargained for was a sudden and dramatic change in the weather.
▪ Saigon had always gone through sudden changes of mood, and this was simply one of those changes.
▪ A smaller organisation might be prone to sudden policy changes or changes of product when a new management team takes over.
▪ But a sudden change came over the spirit of his dreams.
▪ If water is alternately sunlit and shaded, sudden changes take place.
technological
▪ The nineteenth century was a period of extensive technological and social change, characterised by faith in progress and ` Modernity.
▪ The loss was caused by technological change and the amplifying feedback loop of responses to that change.
▪ We will follow the process of search, formulation and implementation of technological change.
▪ But aside from such trifling accomplishments, the superhero is also symbolic of an era of remarkable technological change.
▪ But improved communications, technological change, and increased demand led to concentration of food production in fewer and greater units.
▪ The computer appears to make work more efficient; technological change seems to be enhancing worker productivity at an unprecedented pace.
▪ In addition, she emphasises the broader historical context of political, technological and cultural change within which photography developed.
▪ The pace of technological change is quickening.
■ NOUN
climate
▪ But even if that could be achieved, it would not halt climate change.
▪ Unfortunately, climate records do not go back far enough to be very useful toward understanding climate change.
▪ As Jubilee 2000 draws to a close next month, climate change has been mooted as a possible successor issue.
▪ Yet, in a cruel paradox, it is the world's poorest countries that stand to suffer most from climate change.
▪ However, the uncertainties concerning the extent of climate change and the implications at local level allow political procrastination.
▪ The iniquitous climate change levy continues to be a real issue.
▪ The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise.
▪ The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods.
name
▪ It eased p to 34p on the news with investors also awaiting confirmation of a planned name change to Signet.
▪ City officials were hoping the name change would help curb the prostitution which festered in the area during the 1970s.
▪ After that date any name changes will incur an Amendment Fee - see page 11.
▪ There have been a lot of name changes in retailing lately, he noted.
▪ The former Teesside Polytechnic celebrated its name change by releasing hundreds of balloons into the sky above Middlesbrough.
▪ Hansen says the name change will bring new life to the ballpark.
▪ Another name change came in 1973, to Health and Social Service Journal.
▪ An industry insider said the name change was likely to take place at the end of March.
■ VERB
bring
▪ Even if they do not cut effective costs, they will bring about changes in patterns of demand for services.
▪ It was arguably one of those times, rare in recent years, that a California law helped bring change nationwide.
▪ Step 11 Draw up and then implement your plan for bringing about change.
▪ He had it explained to him, and was told only that the death of Robespierre had brought a considerable change.
▪ This time however government attempts to bring about change have been more determined and enduring.
▪ There are many ways in which parenthood can bring change, Schoen says.
▪ What has brought about the change in Mr Gorbachev?
▪ For many, the shift brought dramatic changes.
cause
▪ Efforts are best directed towards ensuring correct use rather than suffering the disruption caused by frequent change.
▪ We can predict an increase in equilibrium price greater than that caused by either change taken separately.
▪ The information systems project will cause changes to the roles of employees and in working relationships.
▪ Small things cause great changes in fragile lives.
▪ All the changes are autonomous in the sense that they are not themselves caused by changes in income or interest rates.
▪ A change in operating personnel should not cause any change in quality control values. 67.
▪ At a chemical level this is untrue, because different chemical agents cause different kinds of change.
▪ Typically a woman experiences either postpartum blues, caused by hormonal changes, or postpartum depression, caused by a chemical imbalance.
force
▪ Kim has managed to exploit the barrage of pressure from abroad to force through changes.
▪ Such language suggests that the riots were less about forcing material change than about making symbolic gestures.
▪ Town are forced to make a change.
▪ Injuries to the left side could force changes against the Saints.
▪ High-profile action is the quickest way to force change.
▪ Hanes and Sparta managers and supervisors had been trying to force change from the outside.
▪ But for the majority of teachers, the converse is true and changes in assessment are forcing changes in the curriculum.
▪ This fact alone would force many changes in our schools.
lead
▪ Propensity to take an unfair advantage of available opportunities by those who lead the change.
▪ Bob eventually took a different union assignment that would allow him to spend the time needed to lead change with John.
▪ This is likely to lead to radical changes in the committee's procedures, which could be implemented next year.
▪ It could lead to changes in the way biologists monitor the species, as well as efforts to boost the dwindling population.
▪ The clinical and research developments which have led to changes in the official policy will now be described.
▪ From an outside viewpoint, the therapy led to few changes.
▪ Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle.
▪ My own nomination for leading cause is the change in the nature of work.
make
▪ It must be designed to constitute an essential component of those forces making for positive change in our country.
▪ To make these changes, you must have a copy of your printer manual, and you must be cautious.
▪ Hadleigh are forced to make several positional changes with players out through injury and the international at Twickenham.
▪ And so far, no one had taken personal responsibility for making change happen.
▪ Some people, therefore, need make no changes to their pension arrangements.
▪ It was time to make a major change of plan.
▪ Midlands have also made a late change.
▪ All things considered, it seemed like the wrong time in my life to risk making yet another major change.
occur
▪ A similar change is occurring in and out of Britain.
▪ If one talks to Quebecers it is clear that a profound change in attitudes has occurred.
▪ Registered images are used to assess the degree of change that has occurred during the time-period represented by the two images.
▪ It is not necessary for changes to occur in each of the three areas to consider a significant response as having occurred.
▪ The principles of learning theory provide a prima-facie explanation of the linguistic changes which occur during childhood.
▪ Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion.
▪ In well ventilated theatres it is unlikely that any colour change will occur unless accidental spillage should take place.
▪ Nevertheless changes must have occurred even in this route, for, during the fourth century, it was partly built over.
undergo
▪ The human species has probably not undergone much genetic change in recorded time.
▪ A human being can undergo only so many changes and take in only so many experiences.
▪ The exterior decorations on the synthetic white-stone face underwent repeated changes.
▪ When proteins are denatured, they undergo a change in their tertiary structure.
▪ The ships of these fleets had also undergone a radical change.
▪ Both the computer and financial services industries were undergoing rapid change.
▪ All living organisms age, undergoing certain physiological changes as they do so.
▪ Of course, Horcher, a freshman with less than six months of service, would undergo a change of his own.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a changed man/woman
▪ Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
▪ My father came back from the war a changed man.
▪ She returned from her travel a changed woman.
▪ But when he came home he was a changed man.
▪ He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
▪ He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
▪ He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
▪ Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
▪ Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
a chunk of change
▪ Lurie risked a pretty big chunk of change on the race.
a leopard can't change its spots
change gear
▪ Any cyclist can climb a difficult hill: you just change gear.
▪ Every ten minutes or so she would hear the tortured scream of the transmission and randomly change gears.
▪ Mark's idea of getting her to change gear was to slip on a nurse's uniform.
▪ Russ Armstrong, a Middlesbrough motorcycle dealer, has also changed gear after 18 years of the road racing power game.
▪ They saw Jekub roll backwards, change gear with a roar, and attack the truck again.
▪ Volkov changed gear and increased his speed.
▪ We must now change gear somewhat, and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations.
▪ You need to be able to move swiftly, changing gears and learning new skills without complaining.
change your mind
▪ But if students actively dislike school, higher standards and better assessments are not going to change their minds.
▪ But why Zeus changed his mind and whether Prometheus revealed the secret when he was freed, we do not know.
▪ Carruthers, I don't know what will happen now, but I have changed my mind.
▪ Good software gives you the power to change your mind.
▪ He knew what he had to do and he got up and did it before he changed his mind.
▪ Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board.
▪ Schlesinger first thought him wrong for Ratso, but changed his mind when they met in New York.
▪ When he met Lee the next morning at nine, he said he had changed his mind about going back.
chop and change
▪ Don't chop and change from one style to another. It confuses the reader.
▪ I wish they wouldn't keep chopping and changing. There's a different team on the field every week.
▪ I was still chopping and changing lyrics and order of jokes.
▪ In other words, subordinates are unsettled by a boss who chops and changes between autocracy, persuasion, consultation and democracy.
▪ In the past century the institutions and the external stimuli affecting the relation between finance and industry have been chopped and changed.
▪ So you won't have to chop and change your chops to make sure they're done evenly.
loose change
▪ A sharp eyed youngster should have no difficulty in spotting the loose change, that so often litter such areas.
▪ Arnold bought the club out of loose change.
▪ Bunny felt in his pocket, fiddling for loose change.
▪ Carry some loose change to make emergency public telephone calls.
▪ I fished around in my handbag, coming up with some loose change.
▪ Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.
▪ Pockets were emptied of loose change, parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent.
▪ She would bring her loose change to Rachaela for translation into fifty-pence pieces and pounds.
move/change/keep up with the times
▪ Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
▪ The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
ring the changes
▪ It's a stunning dress but it's meant for a woman with lots of clothes to ring the changes.
▪ Slicked scrunched or back-combed, you can ring the changes with these inspiring styles.
▪ That's because we haven't published it yet ... Yep, it's time to ring the changes.
▪ The owners of this modern kitchen preferred a wood appearance and so they rang the changes.
▪ To ring the changes, hair was sprayed at the roots and lightly backcombed for an alternative look.
▪ To ring the changes, try orange or lime-flavoured jellies for the cheesecake.
▪ With a good group ring the changes - try for different effects with new faces at the front.
▪ You should choose a variety of foods and ring the changes with meals.
small change
▪ All this is very small change but very typical of our brother.
▪ Even back then forty-five cents was small change.
▪ For each member of the group, a small change of habit was the first step to an identity of its own.
▪ However, it does result in small changes in the tabulated values of the molar entropies of gases.
▪ Investors holding ninety-day Treasury bills experience very small changes in the value of those bills as interest rates fluctuate.
▪ Such small changes are invaluable in giving themes renewed vitality, while at the same time preserving unity.
▪ Try some of these steps: Make some small changes first.
▪ Very small changes make the biggest difference.
spare change
▪ A spare change of underclothing is desirable for those who value comfort.
▪ Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash.
▪ The bottom line: That guy on the street asking for spare change is actually doing you a favor.
vary/change etc from sth to sth
▪ Also, because it is a natural product, its textures may vary from one batch to the next.
▪ Like telephone charges, they can be varied from day to day and between evenings and rush hours.
▪ Only Limavady changed from unionist to nationalist hands, and Magherafelt moved from no overall majority to nationalist control.
▪ Since then virtually every small printer, and most large ones, have changed from metal to film.
▪ The change from flute to piccolo or viceversa occupies only a few seconds.
▪ The duties and powers of deans vary from university to university.
▪ The lower limits of normal for serum uric acid are arbitrarily defined and may vary from one lab to another.
▪ The prices vary from circuit to circuit, but as a rule they range from £30 for a session to £300.
winds of change/freedom/public opinion etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 1989 was a year of great political change in eastern Europe.
▪ A lot of people are frightened of change.
▪ After a number of career changes, she settled into a job with a major bank.
▪ Does anyone have change for a five dollar bill?
▪ Excuse me, I think you've given me the wrong change.
▪ For most ordinary workers, the new tax laws represent a change for the worse.
▪ French people were asked how they felt about the change from the franc to the Euro.
▪ He hates all changes to his routine.
▪ Here is your change, sir.
▪ House plants are often sensitive to changes in temperature.
▪ I've got £20 and a bit of loose change as well.
▪ I've got a £10 note and about £5 in change.
▪ I can't get used to all these changes.
▪ I hope you've got some change for the bus, because I haven't.
▪ If you are thinking about a change to a different part of the country you will need to use your vacation to look for accommodation.
▪ Labor Secretary Lynn Martin recommended major changes in the management operations of the company.
▪ Many people find it hard to accept change.
▪ The computers will record any changes to the system.
▪ The delay was the result of a change in the way that we administer the grants.
▪ The police must be notified of any change of address.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I expect to see major changes until it is ten years old.
▪ Some changes have already been introduced into schools.
▪ The movie pivots on not one but two such changes, and the result is exhaustingly cathartic, ultimately uplifting.
▪ These spectacles are in fact subject to relentless change.
▪ Two events occurred that ensured, for the time being at least, no such a change in Congressional attitudes would occur.
▪ Volatility increased, and the extent as well as the direction of change became less predictable.