Example sentences of "[adj] from time to time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What renders science distinctive , then , is not so much the instruments that are played , for crude variants of these can be found wherever we look ; nor even the particular tune , for everyone plays brief snatches of this from time to time ; it is rather the sustained and collaborative elaboration of this particular melody in preference to all the others one might play . |
| 2 | I get tired of all this from time to time and attempt to get off the Circle Line and branch out into new conversational territory . |
| 3 | I do n't know about these , this person you 're thinking of but er a very common reaction , I certainly have this from time to time , it really does irritate my wife cos I usually wake her up , is you know , you 're just going off to sleep and you suddenly kind of feel you 're falling , does , does that happen ? |
| 4 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |
| 5 | Vera would supply us with some from time to time and I know Uncle was partial to it . |
| 6 | There is nothing to be ashamed of in having your tank go wrong from time to time — it happens to me too you know ! |
| 7 | The only one of them who appeared in public from time to time was the Conte 's daughter , who was already past what was considered a marriageable age . |
| 8 | I apologise for that omission erm it 's er erm one of those things that er er does I 'm afraid from time to time happen . |
| 9 | This was originally discovered in birds , where seed-eaters were seen to switch from one type of seed to another from time to time , regardless of the nutritional similarity of the seeds . |
| 10 | All of them , it was presumed , would continue to exist , adjusting their claims against one another from time to time , and extending their influence , sometimes , into areas where , as yet , no equilibrium of forces existed . |
| 11 | Norris virtually admits as much from time to time . |
| 12 | He liked to rub in her few months extra from time to time . |
| 13 | From time to time he would take it out and read it , but no others came ; and he had to be content from time to time with the sight of Dinah above him on the lighted stage , playing her part superbly , her breasts outlined by scarlet netted silk . |
| 14 | Deeper down , though , the main mass cools down much more slowly , so that for weeks afterwards the core of the flow will be red hot , with the glow visible from time to time when small collapses take place . |
| 15 | I 've managed to get them pretty manky from time to time and a spin through the washing machine brings them up as good as new . |
| 16 | You could hardly blame them , though , for feeling bewildered from time to time . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose because she is old and gets confused from time to time . ’ |
| 18 | They are rarely found on inland waters , although , since it is established that some of our winter visitors migrate over the interior of the county , such records are likely from time to time . |
| 19 | There was a mixture of the formal and the informal about it ; the Keeper of Zoology in the 1810s was wont from time to time to leap over the stuffed animals . |
| 20 | The patient lies still , just turning a little from time to time . |
| 21 | Everyone gets ill from time to time . |
| 22 | It may sound obvious , but take time to explain to your child that we all become ill from time to time , and we are given medicine to make us well again . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 24 | ( b ) evidence of compliance with the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies ; |
| 25 | ( b ) that the body complies with the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies ; and |
| 26 | Then there is also that nasty little disorder called ‘ eating amnesia ’ which afflicts us all from time to time . |
| 27 | slovenly from time to time , yeah . |
| 28 | The strains of being a Member of Parliament are extremely great from time to time . |
| 29 | Finally , is the language behaviour of these " London Jamaican " speakers the sort of behaviour that characterises bilinguals , or is it more like the behaviour of monolinguals who style-shift from time to time in response to conversational and situational factors ? |
| 30 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |