changing structure

collocation in English

meaningsofchangingandstructure

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changing
adjective
uk
/ˈtʃeɪn.dʒɪŋ/
us
/ˈtʃeɪn.dʒɪŋ/
in a state of ...
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structure
noun
uk
/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/
us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofchangingandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is a sea of structure andchangingstructureavailable that is potential information.
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But another is thechangingstructureof the world market in medical goods.
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In that sense, sharecropping was a partial response to achangingstructureand its relative significance varied accordingly.
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It argues that we will change values bychangingstructure.
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There was a need to make these specifications because the transformation of the land market and thechangingstructureof land ownership affected generational security.
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We must first consider the possibility against the background of thechangingstructureof farming.
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We should consider very carefully the implications for the schools of thechangingstructureof industry and employment generally.
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Equally, we cannot ignore thechangingstructureof industry and the need to cushion the impact of all these changes.
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I am therefore familiar with thechangingstructureof employment and persuaded of the need for it.
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Sociologists have studied thechangingstructureof these groups.
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Because of thechangingstructureof teachers' pay, we are able to offer teachers in shortage subjects more than we would otherwise have done.
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I think that one has to think very carefully as to what is the real implication of thechangingstructureof the industry.
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He certainly makes a good analysis of the business case for supporting equal pay and also of thechangingstructureof the work force.
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These new regulations will reflect modern circum-stances and take account of thechangingstructureand proposed privatisation of the industry.
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It is impossible to chart due to its constantlychangingstructure.
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Achangingstructurewithin the school and further education system, with fewer children at the bottom and more at the top, will inevitably cost more per child.
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We need to recognise that companies need to be part of thechangingstructure, in which parents need support at certain times if they are to work.
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Competition was not the only reason for the department stores' weakening strength; thechangingstructureof cities also affected them.
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Particular topics of his included domestic life, especially the roles of women, and thechangingstructureof the family.
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Given that the nature of the financial services sector is changing as new products are added, perhaps we ought to have a better notion of thechangingstructureof employment.
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The present position has as much to do with thechangingstructureof industry and the concentration of distribution depots along the motorway network as with good railway management.
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He aimed to show achangingstructureof geometrical elements with their unforeseeable movement, open for indeterminable constellations, - mostly on a contrasting ground.
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The survey is published every four years and the last three editions illustrate thechangingstructureof private rented sector ownership.
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