Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 It should be added that contestability may have changed over time , especially within individual currency sectors .
2 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 .
3 Since alcohol consumption may have varied with time , efforts were made to obtain estimates based on patient recall and chart review .
4 AIthough the actual industries within the sector may have changed over time , for example with the decline in the numbers of domestic servants since the turn of the century , the sector itself has been an important source of jobs since the mid-nineteenth century .
5 Dispersal agents must have changed with time as in long-lived taxa such as Ginkgo biloba ( Ginkgoaceae ) and Podocarpaceae , which were probably dispersed by long-extinct groups of reptiles , while in the largest genus of plants with fleshy fruits in New Zealand , Coprosma ( Rubiaceae ) , comprising 29% of all such species there and 50% of the species of fleshy-fruited shrubs , 52 species are dispersed by birds , bats , lizards and formerly the moas , now extinct .
6 Had the player not been defied by a remarkable save by Kopke , Ferguson 's value would have soared in time for the day when Dundee United are finally made the offer they can not refuse .
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