Example sentences of "[verb] from time to time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with all insurance companies , Legal & General has from time to time to adjust its premium terms to take into account the changing nature and frequency of household insurance claims . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is well worth pausing from time to time to clarify what problem each person thinks he or she is solving . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 10 | Do you pause from time to time to thank God for the hundred and one tiny joys that make up each day ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pour into a bowl , cover and allow to cool , stirring from time to time to prevent a skin from forming . |
| 16 | Our project took around two and a half hours to complete , stopping from time to time to take photographs and make tea ! |
| 17 | Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way . |
| 18 | By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals , she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Picking her way carefully as he 'd instructed , Robbie paused from time to time to cast a puzzled look back at Fen . |
| 21 | But as time went on and the numbers grew , more organized arrangements had to be made ; and the abbot of Cluny had from time to time to undertake mighty journeys . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He spoke often of Eliot , trying from time to time to poke gentle fun at him . |