Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] from time to " in BNC.

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1 Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface .
2 But a diminishing , though still powerful , minority ensured that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was kept alive and could even be temporarily revitalized from time to time when there was a transient upturn in Germany 's fortunes or the promise of suitable retaliation for people 's miseries .
3 This will result in directly employed labour being slightly undervalued from time to time .
4 Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura .
5 As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market .
6 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 .
7 Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles .
8 The life of this normally gentle giant of a man was also punctuated from time to time by acts of sudden , often inexplicable , violence , usually associated with an over-generous intake of alcohol .
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