Example sentences of "[been] [verb] from time to time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 2 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 3 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 4 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
| 5 | Letters addressed to the present writer have been opened from time to time from at least 1973 to the present . |
| 6 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 7 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 8 | This atmosphere will ultimately emerge as something of immense value when ‘ the kindly light of reason ’ finally sweeps away all the incredible and stifling nonsense , which has been introduced from time to time in futile attempts to counter the inexorable demand that reason and common sense shall ultimately triumph , and replace superstition and blind senseless faith . |
| 9 | In January 1986 , the then Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) said that the rules had been reviewed from time to time and the judiciary of the Supreme Court and the Circuit bench consulted . |
| 10 | A few freaks have been discovered from time to time , one amazing animal tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs and a dwarf specimen at as little as 3 lbs , but these were abnormal . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously some of the locos at the Snowdon Mountain Railway have been fitted from time to time . |
| 12 | Certain other mechanical effects have been mentioned from time to time . |