Example sentences of "[be] from time to time [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancery , i.e. the Chancellor 's office , has a power ( Statute of Westminster II 1285 ) of framing new writs in cansimili casu — i.e. to meet new cases sufficiently like those for which writs already exist — and new writs are from time to time framed . |
| 2 | The curious , at times seemingly perverse , ambiguity in which the terms of the contract are from time to time expressed is an added reason why no one who has to wrestle with the problems which abound in this area should fail to arm himself with this book . |
| 3 | ‘ Exports of imitation Stolichnaya are from time to time made from other regions of the former USSR , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The statute only vests in the agency ( with some exceptions ) the state-owned assets of such former state enterprises which have already been converted into companies ; further , such part of the equity of other companies which was vested in the state before coming into force of the statute of conversion and which are still in state ownership ; finally , assets remaining in state ownership after the liquidation of state enterprises and any other assets which are from time to time vested in the agency by separate legislation or a resolution of parliament . |
| 5 | Accordingly , I do not derive much assistance from the definitions of natural justice which have been from time to time used , but , whatever standard is adopted , one essential is that the person concerned should have a reasonable opportunity of presenting his case . |
| 6 | It was there as early as the thirteenth century , parts of it being from time to time rebuilt or embellished . |
| 7 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 8 | Hereditary wardenships , for example , were from time to time inherited by priests : in 1207 William of Wrotham , Archdeacon of Taunton , received from King John seisin of the lands he held in chief in Somerset , and the wardenship of the forests of Somerset and Exmoor in Devon . |
| 9 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 10 | Indeed , in the training industry the acronym CBT meaning ‘ computer based training ’ is from time to time reinterpreted to mean ‘ computer based trouble ’ . |
| 11 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 12 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |
| 13 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |