Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Heinkel , despite the enormous noise , Hess and Edward exchanged a few shouted words from time to time , their faces pressed close together . |
| 2 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
| 3 | He surfaces in different places from time to time : there he is at St Mary 's church in Finchley , North London , witnessing the marriage of sister Bessie and Alf Davidge in 1907 , then appearing as if from nowhere to perform the same function for Gertie and Frederick Foxwell in Norwich in 1911 . |
| 4 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 5 | The best known of these studies , internationally , is the now well established Values and Life Styles ( VALS ) approach pioneered by the Stamford Research Institute in California , and licensed to various European market research agencies ( in the UK , Applied Futures Ltd ) ; a number of others have been promoted by different interests from time to time , notably the Europe-wide RISC studies . |
| 6 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 7 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 8 | Squatting , tossing back his black curly locks from time to time , he was chatting to his elderly accompanist : ‘ I think we should have the Bach . ’ |
| 9 | If another cat is given a much more interesting and varied diet , with a different kind of canned food each day and many other titbits , then , paradoxically , it may refuse one of its old , favourite foods from time to time . |
| 10 | But they went down 10 minutes from time to a disputed penalty . |
| 11 | At its peak in 1792 the LCS had around 800 active members with a further 5,000 attending its divisional meetings from time to time . |
| 12 | An unfortunate accident in the solvent plant , a fire in the warehouse , a large-scale burglary , the loss of a key client , some bad publicity over a defective product , an unexpected but substantial price increase on raw materials can all present a crisis to a company , and most companies have such crises from time to time . |
| 13 | I should have thought that it would be common ground that it is right to review such organisations from time to time to establish whether they are achieving their objectives . |
| 14 | Everyone needed such things from time to time , ) and slid into bed . |
| 15 | Whatever reservations there may be about individual decisions from time to time , the basic premise that most planning decisions should be taken locally has never been seriously challenged . |
| 16 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 17 | A junior hacksaw : You 're likely to have to tackle some small metal-cutting jobs from time to time . |
| 18 | During week-ends I have two part-time helpers and I also have a couple of part-time helpers from time to time . |
| 19 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | There has been interest in these questions from time to time in the past , in particular in Britain between the end of World War Two and the early 1960s . |
| 21 | They wear these muzzles from time to time so that they become accustomed to the restrictions imposed upon them . |
| 22 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 23 | To say that human beings from time to time have sexual intercourse , and that this is because they have sexual instincts , is as circular as the argument about hunger . |
| 24 | This extraordinary and highly convoluted story has aroused interest in many quarters from time to time . |
| 25 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 26 | The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time . |
| 27 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 28 | Though flowers may more often be purple than blue , it makes sense to try blue coloured objects from time to time rather than to concentrate exclusively on purple . |
| 29 | But one gets those things from time to time . |
| 30 | They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time — and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events . |