Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [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 | However , as land use patterns change over time , zone boundaries will need changing , adding to the procedural complexity . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Relationships vary over time , from authority to authority and from service to service . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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' . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Administrators meet from time to time . |
| 12 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |
| 13 | Obviously , spread sizes even for individual countries vary over time as the market makes different judgements on their creditworthiness , e.g. Brazil 1976 = 2½ per cent ; 1978 = ⅝ per cent ; 1982 = 2¼ per cent . |
| 14 | Rory could hear the stamping , slapping feet move in time to the fiddles and accordions as they played a jig . |
| 15 | The quotas rise as time passes . |
| 16 | You 've combed through Beatrix 's possessions time after time . |
| 17 | Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations . |
| 18 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 19 | ( b ) Particulars exist in time . |
| 20 | All collections alter over time ; in order to remain effective , the classification device must evolve in keeping with the development of the collection . |
| 21 | General Portfolio B P Pitney Bowes over the years have from time to time provided us with funding |
| 22 | The effect is plain to see in the way that the velocity curves change with time in Fig. 8.7(a) . |
| 23 | Such matches and mismatches change over time , and so therefore does the use of the argument , and subjects which were previously regarded as vocational even if only in relation to a teaching career — are now justified on general grounds . |
| 24 | As well as assesing how much is retained , tests will be designed to assess what kind knowledge drops out what kind is retained , and how knowledge structures change over time . |
| 25 | Defining what the user expects and wants from a service however is complicated by the fact that perceptions change over time , according to where people are in relation to the system . |
| 26 | When memories fade with time |
| 27 | Principles endure through time . |
| 28 | The fact that these things happen over time in the same place matters , even if this study does not draw on Giddens ' ( 1981 ) notion of structuration to address this sort of question . |
| 29 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 30 | As far as mental state is concerned we first examined the OBS score over time of all dementia sufferers not admitted straight away to long-term institutional care . |