Object

• emphasis: However, in this article the intention is to shift the emphasis toward more practical aspects of the topic.

• blame: Scapegoats The story shows how ready some people are to shift the blame for their own actions onto someone else.

• burden: There seems no realistic prospect of shifting the burden of fighting to Iraqi or other allies.

• goalpost: COSLA ( the employers ) have continuously shifted the goalposts in response to UNISON's three year old claim.

• cultivation: Shifting cultivation may not completely remove this diversity but it severely reduces it.

• sand: Those who would silence doubt are filled with fear; the house of their spirit is built on shifting sands.

Preposition: in

• emphasis: One of the major impacts of this has been the shift in emphasis from structure to processes.

Adjective modifier

• modal: Where investment and training have taken place there is evidence of customer growth and modal shift from car.

• seismic: However, there has been a seismic shift in recent years and it is now the consumer that calls the shots.

• fundamental: Has there been a fundamental shift in that position?

• gradual: Despite recent criticism of LookSmart and their gradual shift to a Pay-per-Click model, a regional listing is still worth the money.

• demographic: The real change is in the demographic shift that has taken place in global Christianity.

• dramatic: But in recent years there's been a dramatic shift in who benefits from trade.

Modifies a noun

• rota: The position requires an individual who is flexible with hours and able to participate in a shift rota if required.

• pattern: The annual Workplace Report shift pay survey gives details of over 200 shift pay rates across the five main shift patterns.

Noun used with modifier

• paradigm: What the paradigm shift requires is a writing proper to making.

• graveyard: Hmm, that's the graveyard shift of conference week isn't it?

• eight-hour: Once the horizontal shafts were established, they were worked 24 hours a day with three, eight-hour shifts.

• phase: Changes are non-linear - systems change through phase shifts - radical transformations of kind rather than incremental development.

• night: They used to work in the mills, on the night shift.