Example sentences of "have [vb pp] over time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since the examination is testing what skills you have developed over time , the passage is likely to be similar in some way to passages which you have seen . |
| 2 | The words used — the labels — have varied over time : residuum ; social problem group ; hard-core ; problem families ; the culture of poverty ; alienation ; hereditary poverty ; the inadequate poor ; the urban underclass . |
| 3 | The methods of distributing the general grant have varied over time . |
| 4 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 5 | Those differences seem very largely to account for the variations in actual patterns of support which have occurred over time . |
| 6 | But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time , they have remained essentially predatory . |
| 7 | Within the movement , definitions have shifted over time . |
| 8 | However , the weights may soon become out-of-date : in particular , the Laspeyres index will tend to give too much weight to those goods whose relative prices have increased over time since increases in relative prices are usually associated with decreases in quantity demanded . |
| 9 | Also , the Paasche index tends to give too little weight to those goods whose relative prices have increased over time . |
| 10 | What is loosely termed ‘ global competition ’ is the outcome of how individual firms have reacted over time to the changing balance of opportunity and threat . |
| 11 | Although it is common practice to distinguish what Henry Sweet called ‘ form-words ’ as distinct from ‘ full words ’ and to locate the former in grammar rather than lexis , it has to be noted that these ‘ form-words ’ have emerged over time from full-blown lexical sources , and for the most part still have recognizable kin which show clear signs of the relationship . |
| 12 | One of the strengths of organisations is the expertise that officials have accumulated over time . |
| 13 | Students might find it useful to examine and discuss the figures in Table 4.1 ; it should be born in mind , however , that definitions of indictable crimes have changed over time , as we mentioned in Chapter 1 . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the characteristics of later life families have changed over time . |
| 15 | Table I.2 , which shows the expectation of further life in years and of ultimate age at various ages for men and women at various periods of the twentieth century , is another expression of their different life survival patterns and of how these have changed over time . |
| 16 | Table 3.1 lists the four factors which determine the financial status of elderly people — employment , state benefits , private savings , and family transfers — and it can be seen that their relative shares have changed over time , with the decline in employment income roughly matching the rise in state benefits . |
| 17 | To structure the discussion , I shall focus on the idea of a golden age of family responsibilities in the past as the starting-point for understanding how these have changed over time . |
| 18 | Views about the exact composition of virtue , male and female , have changed over time , and they may vary , too , with differing social and geographical contexts , but the underlying theme is constant : the theme , that is , of difference . |
| 19 | We saw in the previous chapter how productive property is inherited and distributed amongst kin , and how the patterns of wealth ownership have changed over time . |
| 20 | In particular , we are interested in the way lending patterns have changed over time , and whether in fact these changes have been optimal . |
| 21 | Figure 5.1 shows how these forms of provision have changed over time . |
| 22 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 23 | to examine the way the determinants of employment decisions have changed over time . |
| 24 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 25 | Although the media of political socialization have changed over time , the content has not . |
| 26 | The methods or ‘ media ’ they have used for these explorations have evolved over time — and have been aimed at an ever wider audience . |
| 27 | They have evolved over time ; one is not right and one is not wrong . |
| 28 | This project is concerned with examining how number of high technology industries have evolved over time . |
| 29 | Britain offers a wealth of historic landscapes , townscapes , field systems , roads , tracks and routes , railways and canals , banks and boundaries , ancient woodlands , walls and hedges and old industrial sites , settlements which have been planned , settlements which have evolved over time . |