Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
| 2 | Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now . |
| 3 | Place the container in the dark in a cool place for 8–10 weeks , checking from time to time to see if the water needs topping up . |
| 4 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 5 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 6 | After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number . |
| 7 | Tinkering with local government boundaries did not seem to help either , although it was clearly necessary from time to time to take steps to match the changing facts of social geography to local authority boundaries and status . |
| 8 | Our project took around two and a half hours to complete , stopping from time to time to take photographs and make tea ! |
| 9 | Thomas Gunson , of Middlesex , a glass seller , was to he the treasurer or receiver — advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen . |
| 10 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 11 | Do you pause from time to time to thank God for the hundred and one tiny joys that make up each day ? |
| 12 | Thus some women , especially and significantly those who have difficult relationships with men , find themselves drawn into membership of clandestine women 's groups which meet from time to time to honour their spirits . |
| 13 | He cut a dashing figure at the many conferences he addressed , raising his hand from time to time to stroke his dark curly locks as he poured out pure reason in soft well-modulated tones with a sincerity that was almost painful . |
| 14 | So quite apart from the need to make new vaccines against flu from time to time to deal with the problem of antigenic shift , individuals have to be vaccinated against flu every year and even then the vaccine may not protect more than 80 per cent of them . |
| 15 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 16 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 17 | Picking her way carefully as he 'd instructed , Robbie paused from time to time to cast a puzzled look back at Fen . |
| 18 | He spoke often of Eliot , trying from time to time to poke gentle fun at him . |
| 19 | I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet . |
| 20 | The idea was to put him in it from time to time to give his gammy leg a rest . |
| 21 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 22 | Phat escorted them , scowling and flailing their shoulders with his cane from time to time to speed their progress . |
| 23 | A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’ |
| 24 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 25 | I followed the Sergeant out to the office ; we both sat at a small table , and after a very enjoyable supper of cheese rolls we played the chanters until 1 a.m. , pausing from time to time to drink a mug of tea . |
| 26 | The professor will be a member ex officio of the committee , and will be expected from time to time to hold offices such as that of Chairman of the Committee or Director of Graduate Studies , and in due course to assume the duties of professor in charge of the Institute , which are customarily rotated by arrangement . |
| 27 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 28 | The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent . |
| 29 | Oliver likes to pretend he knows what I do , and chucks out the odd word from time to time to sound authoritative . |
| 30 | It is well worth pausing from time to time to clarify what problem each person thinks he or she is solving . |