Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Not only does the pattern of young people 's activities change over time , it also changes as they age .
2 For example , while the present data show how soft constraints affect preference ( and thus the state of the comprehension system ) , they can not address the question of how the preferences develop over time on reading a stimulus sentence .
3 The concept of a profession is , as we have seen , based upon claims to specialised knowledge and skills developed over time through training .
4 However , as land use patterns change over time , zone boundaries will need changing , adding to the procedural complexity .
5 The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings .
6 ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset .
7 Strawson himself relies entirely on an intuitive sense of the line between them , but we can see from the history of the social sciences that such intuitions change with time and place .
8 Their gutting knives flashing in time to the music .
9 Since our model imposes no restrictions on how reservation wages or the effects of variables change over time , we can let the data decide whether each individual has an increasing/decreasing reservation wage , hazard , etc. over time .
10 And remember that this is in addition to the calories you are burning away every day during aerobic walking , another 200–400 calories depending upon time and effort .
11 From the point of view of finding its Laplace transform , a unit rectangular pulse may be conveniently regarded as the difference between two unit steps occurring at times and as shown in figure 11.5(b) .
12 The treatment of individual supporters has at times been shoddy and the club need to radically improve their attitude towards the paying customer .
13 Hair styles varied over time .
14 Most charges of seditious words occurred during times of Jacobite scares and tended to be levied at those groups suspected of Jacobite sympathy : Roman Catholics , the Irish , Nonjurors , and the high-flying clergy and gentry .
15 If it could be measured in units related to time , the quantities may be found to be proportional to the distance back in the evolutionary chain to which an individual may revert .
16 In its early days , the ERM allowed weak currencies to devalue from time to time .
17 Relationships vary over time , from authority to authority and from service to service .
18 This is easiest at places which allow schools access at times exclusively for educational visits , or where some special space can be set aside where a group can work undisturbed .
19 The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority .
20 her lips moving from time to time
21 To get the new rate demands printed in time for April East , the deadline was midday on March 31st .
22 When writing you may like to include a simple map and travel details to help candidates arrive on time .
23 By phasing in HDMAC gradually , over a number of years , the European manufacturers hoped to time its introduction to take advantage of the increasing miniaturisation of some of the associated technologies , while avoiding the high costs associated with bringing the new digital technology to the market .
24 At least they now have twelve months to recover in time for next year 's race .
25 At least they now have twelve months to recover in time for next year 's race .
26 Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries .
27 The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' .
28 Have such ties changed over time ?
29 However , the principal indicator is often typology , the way axe shapes changed over time to accommodate different methods of hafting and specialisation in use ( fig. 5.3 ) .
30 Although , as we shall argue , changing terms of trade are less adverse to the USSR than is supposed , the benefits which accrue through the structure of economic ties have over time become less economic and more political in substance .
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