Example sentences of "from time [prep] time [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers from time to time make statements seeming to indicate to judges generally what sentencing policy should be , within the range of punishments laid down by statutes for different crimes . |
| 2 | From time to time draw up a questionnaire on some aspect of Christian truth or church life or community concerns and use those in contact with different segments of the congregation to interview selected individuals in order to sample opinion and collect suggestions . |
| 3 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 4 | Such comment may , and no doubt does , from time to time overstep boundaries acceptable to the individual or local authority so criticised . |
| 5 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 6 | It seems clear that there is a distinction between the one who is a prophet and those who from time to time prophesy . |
| 7 | They are precise in detail yet from time to time break away from the formal patterns of Petipa 's well-ordered conventions . |
| 8 | Theresa Scott and Helen Chalmers look after the Baptist Missionary Society Birthday Scheme in Queens Park , and from time to time send a gift to the BMS . |
| 9 | There are calm , spaciousness and perfectly balanced pictures within the overall design which from time to time acquire a more athletic quality , particularly in Monotones H ( i.e. two boys and a girl ) . |
| 10 | This suggests that a fusion of languages is taking place which can not be explained simply by an appeal to the notion that speakers from time to time animate different personas , some " British " and some " Caribbean " . |
| 11 | Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority . |
| 12 | I apologise for that omission erm it 's er erm one of those things that er er does I 'm afraid from time to time happen . |
| 13 | The successful introduction of a rationalised and acceptable meaning to the word ‘ god ‘ would destroy the dominance of those people , often of superior intelligence , who from time to time have come to power in nearly all civilisations , by exploiting the fear of the unknown among their fellows . |
| 14 | To say that human beings from time to time have sexual intercourse , and that this is because they have sexual instincts , is as circular as the argument about hunger . |
| 15 | To be specific about it , many of the Christian circles that I enter from time to time do not believe in the Devil . |
| 16 | The Federal Executive shall have power , after appropriate consultations and subject to ratification by the Federal Conference , to make and from time to time vary Party rules as to membership , elections and such other matters as it may consider necessary or desirable to give effect to or supplement the provisions of this Constitution . |
| 17 | Much of it is a matter of planning and approach , and most of us from time to time talk with colleagues and seek advice from older and perhaps wiser hands . |
| 18 | From time to time diate experience into this wider context . |