Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should think of time as a resource and , like any resource , it can be squandered or utilised in an effective and efficient manner . |
| 2 | Unless the mutation has become established , it is extremely rare for such forms to be found in the wild , although they must occur from time to time . |
| 3 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
| 4 | The following three forms of rates of interest may be regarded as suitable for use where it is envisaged that the rate of interest should fluctuate from time to time according to market rates : |
| 5 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 6 | However pissed off we might get from time to time though , we 're going to have to accept that Wilko is at Elland Rd to stay . |
| 7 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 8 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 9 | No attempt should be made to use monetary policy to offset any disturbances which may occur from time to time . |
| 10 | The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently . |
| 11 | In general Keynesians recognized that changes in W could occur from time to time , but the factors influencing these changes were extrinsic to the equations of the income-expenditure model . |
| 12 | There was little effort at first to study how the ecological balance could shift through time as the result of evolution . |
| 13 | Where he differed from Darwin was mainly on the critical issue of evolution , i.e. , the proposition that one species could change over time into another species , but his arguments on these matters were by no means obscurantist or naive . |
| 14 | In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence . |
| 15 | ‘ But , without a faction behind him , he is n't much danger , although I suppose he could combine in time with a cousin or two . |
| 16 | He had handled many issues with skill and public spirit and good feeling , but he had no publicly recognized parcel of achievement which he could open from time to time and contemplate with satisfaction . |
| 17 | She is one of several on whose services I may call from time to time . |
| 18 | In education , as in other disciplines , bodies of opinion may develop from time to time which present an unusually sharp challenge to accepted wisdom . |
| 19 | Interest rates may vary from time to time in line with the general level of interest rates . |
| 20 | However , the reorganization of water resources may lead to the use of lower.quality water or , as is worse from the textile finishers ' point of view , water that may vary from time to time . |
| 21 | Secondly , the parties should be aware that the items taken into account in compiling the index may vary from time to time . |
| 22 | Complexity is added to this simple relationship because the predominant direction of stress along oblique-slip margins may change through time as a consequence of adjustments to the overall direction of plate movement . |
| 23 | The motives influencing a particular individual may change from time to time , and their relative importance may also vary , depending on the situation . |
| 24 | Grace Road has a ‘ starless ’ society now , though that may change in time with the development of 20-year old Ben Smith , who justified the high opinions held of him by making his maiden first-class century in the first game of the season . |
| 25 | For him , Bridgnorth would always be associated with the antics of a ghost that obviously liked railway engines and would appear from time to time to warn of impending accidents . |
| 26 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 27 | I hoped that Archie would recover in time for his first night on duty . |
| 28 | It would pay for time on military computers and research on alternative energy sources and methods of cleaning polluted soil and water . |
| 29 | A woman would come from time to time and take my money and bring me clothes and food . |
| 30 | But seriously , vacancies will arise from time to time in all areas within the company . |