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

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1 These four traditions have varied in eminence over time and Van Til argues that the claims on the curriculum are no longer based on a single source — a conclusion in line with the Munn Report .
2 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 .
3 Existing users will be upgraded to OpenVMS over time .
4 The research programme is the first study of support networks of the elderly looking at developments over time .
5 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 .
6 However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments .
7 Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time .
8 The latter place rather more emphasis on the social values and cultural meanings associated with family life , and look at change over time in the sentiments , attachments and emotions associated with different family relationships — usually between spouses and between parents and immature children , although in principle the same kind of analysis can be applied to the wider kin group .
9 While ditches become filled with silt over time , mounds are gradually flattened by weathering , and if a mound is adjacent to a ditch , this will affect the pattern of silting in the ditch .
10 This seems appropriate since , with the exception of fascist states and some contemporary authoritarian regimes , corporatism has developed to widely differing degrees , varies in intensity over time and is contained within vastly different state structures and administrative traditions .
11 They may change in location over time .
12 Thus even if separate communities had begun with similar ways , it is likely that the processes of structuration would lead to divergence over time .
13 In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time .
14 For large , frequently repeated studies , each is the pilot for its successor but , on the other hand , changes militate against comparability over time .
15 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 .
16 How have patterns of support between members of the same kin group changed in Britain over time , and especially over the past two centuries ?
17 A re-examination of Fig. 1 shows that cycles in practice display no obvious tendency either to diminish or increase in amplitude over time — indeed , particularly in the nineteenth century , the amplitude of the cycles was remarkably constant .
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