Example sentences of "[verb] over time " in BNC.

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1 Quite the contrary , degrees of review may have differed over time but it is indisputable that the judiciary accepted that non-jurisdictional errors of law could exist .
2 It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said on Friday that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ .
3 It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ .
4 MINIS , moreover , was an ongoing system capable of having refinements added over time .
5 Like the best wines , distinguished architecture matures over time : 50 years from now , Lloyds will be championed by as yet unborn conservationists , fought over in the media and ultimately listed Grade One .
6 The key point made by these analyses of team or group development is that effectiveness ( see below ) is an outcome which develops over time , as the group begin to understand what is required of them and how they can utilise the knowledge , skills and attributes of the individual members in fulfilling group and individual goals .
7 As Tuckman 's analysis shows , cohesiveness develops over time .
8 Finally , it is important to note that however tight an exclusion clause may be , it will not prevent the introduction of new fiduciary duties into the relationship between firm and customer as it develops over time .
9 Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time .
10 In this chapter , the primary concern is with changes occurring over time spans from minutes to centuries and from spatial wavelengths from about 1 m to about 100 km .
11 It leads on to one of the basic processes of geographical inquiry , to study the impact of processes occurring over time on different areas .
12 There seemed real evidence they would be forgotten over time . ’
13 Liquidity preference theory , on the other hand , recognizes the possibility that the forward rate may contain some element of liquidity premium which declines over time as the period approaches , so that .
14 Whilst it is intuitively obvious that the utility of most things declines over time , it is more difficult to identify the extent of that decline over a given period .
15 Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do .
16 I remember when I worked in Ninewells and the Queen Mother was coming and the same thing happened , the domestics had to work over time to clean up Ninewells which is a relatively new hospital .
17 They have looked at the commission of offences reported over time by a sample of youths in longitudinal surveys .
18 Anyone who needs an operation will wish to be operated on by a competently trained surgeon ; the necessary skills need to be honed over time .
19 Naturally , these inconsistencies do not affect the comparability of the ‘ all items ’ index over time and , in part , the changes were introduced to conform more closely with international classifications .
20 Although it is fairly complicated now , it will be simplified over time and will offer a migration route up from things like XT Intrinsics .
21 Hair styles varied over time .
22 The words used — the labels — have varied over time : residuum ; social problem group ; hard-core ; problem families ; the culture of poverty ; alienation ; hereditary poverty ; the inadequate poor ; the urban underclass .
23 Unfortunately , the Society would not accept boys below a certain minimum height , and this minimum varied over time .
24 He had dowsed a spiral of energy on the stone which he found varied over time .
25 The methods of distributing the general grant have varied over time .
26 They measured price changes over periods of one week , one day , five minutes and one minute , and concluded that the relationship between spot and futures prices has varied over time .
27 Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater .
28 These sums can then be varied over time to reflect changes consequent upon the damage caused to the injured party .
29 In some cases local authorities have even set up their own associations to deal with this , although since many housing associations are organized on a regional and increasingly even a national basis , local input is likely to diminish over time .
30 Although the value of the market index will tend to increase over time , this will not cause the size and variance of this measure to rise .
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