Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] over time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We require to clarify any inherent pattern that might be present in the variation of imports over time . |
| 2 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 3 | This refers to the conditions which work to maintain the cohesion of classes over time , from one generation to the next . |
| 4 | To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for . |
| 5 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 6 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 7 | Standard techniques may be used to make broad comparisons between groups of individuals but the statistical analysis of changes over time and interrelationships between events , topics often of special interest to the psychologist , is much less well understood . |
| 8 | In oral as well as in literate culture , it would appear that there are techniques whereby the directness and immediacy of everyday experience are contrasted with the holding of traditions over time , and with the ‘ fixing ’ and ratifying of definitions and meanings . |
| 9 | Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems . |
| 10 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 11 | The analysis of trends over time offers another indirect method of considering age and cohort related effects upon health . |
| 12 | If one simply looks at the level of unemployment amongst architects over time , it is difficult to identify a clear pattern linked to any of the regulatory reforms . |
| 13 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |
| 14 | As for changes over time in spatial disparities within the EC other than those generated by the accession of new members , Boltho ( 1989 ) demonstrates that from 1950 onwards there has been some reduction in the degree of regional income imbalance . |
| 15 | Ethnographic research has special qualities suited to dealing with controversial topics in sensitive locations , for it entails a gradual and progressive contact with respondents , which is sustained over a long period , allowing a rapport to be established slowly with respondents over time , and for researchers to participate in the full range of experiences involved in the topic . |
| 16 | On the developmental road towards kingdom-states , alliance networks changed with events over time ; the role of exchange in the making and breaking of such alliances can not be ignored and we should be wary of hastening true commercialisation into Anglo-Saxon England too early , even though that was the inevitable result of this society 's structure . |
| 17 | For example , the Home Office monitors violent crime by looking at numbers and trends in patterns over time and produces annual figures for offences and convictions , but in so doing avoids the problems of definition that bedevil the researcher . |
| 18 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
| 19 | This finding argues for alternative programmes and measures for application among countries and within countries over time . |
| 20 | In order to engage in comparisons over time we were faced with a dilemma stemming from the change in the range of newspapers over this period . |
| 21 | The figures in Table 5.1 are from cross-sectional data , obtained in 1980 , and could therefore be misleading as indicators of changes in households over time . |
| 22 | For a fuller understanding of the factors affecting divorce , we have to consider not only changes in rates over time but also differences between social groups in rates of divorce . |
| 23 | They allow comparisons between occupations ; within occupations over time ; between male and female workers , and between regions . |
| 24 | Differences in results over time may be due to errors which must be attached to judgements of mastery , whether test results or teachers ' judgements or both are used in making the judgement . |
| 25 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 26 | Ruling out scales designed for use with non-elderly people , for inpatient populations , for administration by clinicians , for information gathering from close relatives , and any not previously validated or not sensitive to changes over time , two scales were selected from the Comprehensive Assessment and Referral Examination ( CARE ) Schedule ( Gurland et al , 1977 ) namely the Organic Brain Syndrome ( OBS ) scale and the Depression scale , the former a ten point and the latter a 30 point scale . |
| 27 | An important function of assessment is that it can help determine the extent to which a child 's language is subject to changes over time . |
| 28 | ( Totally homogenous capital and labour markets ; constant returns to scale over all ranges of output ; marginal productivity pricing for all factors ; continuously variable relationships between factors over time ; land as an insignificant input . ) |
| 29 | When looking at changes over time ( or making comparisons between areas ) one way of overcoming differences in overall population structure is via the calculation of age and sex specific mortality rates . |
| 30 | The research programme is the first study of support networks of the elderly looking at developments over time . |