Example sentences of "not [verb] over time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist . |
| 2 | This model , as indicated earlier , makes three assumptions : that ability is unidimensional ( a trait ) ; that item difficulty is independent of the other items in the test ; that item difficulty is independent of the student i.e. it does not vary with the different learning experiences of students and hence it does not vary over time . |
| 3 | However , Rosenberg ( 1982 ) has questioned the validity of estimates of the impact of climatic change on crop yields which assume that crop varieties and production technologies do not change over time . |
| 4 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 5 | Diagrammatically , the expectations hypothesis is given by the horizontal line in Fig. 8.1 ( assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 6 | This backwardation relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 7 | The contango relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( again assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 8 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |