Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from time to time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 2 | And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin . |
| 3 | Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold ! |
| 4 | This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data . |
| 5 | My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street . |
| 6 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 7 | No new members of the board were elected , though the odd family friend was co-opted from time to time . |
| 8 | In order to prevent the seasons getting out of phase , a thirteenth month was inserted from time to time , but there was no regular system for the intercalation of this additional month until the fifth century BC , when seven of these months began to be inserted at fixed intervals in a cycle of nineteen years . |
| 9 | He was initially sentenced to three months in jail ; the period was renewed from time to time until 1672 . |
| 10 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 12 | The Director-General 's Newsletter was published from time to time as a further means of membership communication . |