1 Our surgeons can alter people beyond recognition.
2 It's a little chunk of history that they've forgotten to alter.
3 I don't imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime.
4 Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside.
5 And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
6 The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.
7 Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different.
8 When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage.
9 Throughout that time he had been intending to alter the name over the window, but had never quite got to the point of doing it.
10 Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets--anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
11 And yet to the people of only two generations ago this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history.
12 The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify.
13 Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory and live out their lives undetected in a back-street.
14 Winston, in addition to his regular work, spent long periods every day in going through back files of 'The Times' and altering and embellishing news items which were to be quoted in speeches.'
15 Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
16 They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered.
17 They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered.
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