Example sentences of "from time [prep] time [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans .
2 Ministers from time to time make statements seeming to indicate to judges generally what sentencing policy should be , within the range of punishments laid down by statutes for different crimes .
3 Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries .
4 Timothy , although a regular caller , had n't mentioned the alternative to Yelton again , but the way he looked at her from time to time made words unnecessary .
5 ‘ Exports of imitation Stolichnaya are from time to time made from other regions of the former USSR , ’ he said .
6 Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now .
7 He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind .
8 Place the container in the dark in a cool place for 8–10 weeks , checking from time to time to see if the water needs topping up .
9 Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed .
10 I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’
11 Prime Minister William Gladstone is another well-known figure whose speeches have been ‘ discovered ’ from time to time recorded on cylinders .
12 After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number .
13 Tinkering with local government boundaries did not seem to help either , although it was clearly necessary from time to time to take steps to match the changing facts of social geography to local authority boundaries and status .
14 Our project took around two and a half hours to complete , stopping from time to time to take photographs and make tea !
15 Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery .
16 I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking .
17 The effect of the war was , as in many other industries , to force government , employers and unions in shipping to face and to solve as best they could , many problems of relationships and jurisdictions which had been simmering , and from time to time erupting , for many years .
18 Thomas Gunson , of Middlesex , a glass seller , was to he the treasurer or receiver — advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen .
19 ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges .
20 The curious , at times seemingly perverse , ambiguity in which the terms of the contract are from time to time expressed is an added reason why no one who has to wrestle with the problems which abound in this area should fail to arm himself with this book .
21 AT3 had experienced great difficulty in finding a job in teaching and from time to time expressed thankfulness for the one he had now .
22 However , we will from time to time assume that we are discussing electronic computers , implemented by the routing and gating of electrical signals .
23 He may from time to time change currencies and make gains on currencies .
24 All such rights , powers , liabilities , obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the Treaties , and all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the Treaties , as in accordance with the Treaties are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom shall be recognised and available in law , and be enforced , allowed and followed accordingly : and the expression ‘ enforceable Community right ’ and similar expressions shall be read as referring to one to which this subsection applies .
25 ‘ All such rights , powers , liabilities , obligations and restrictions from time to time created or arising by or under the Treaties , and all such remedies and procedures from time to time provided for by or under the Treaties , as in accordance with the Treaties are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom shall be recognised and available in law , and be enforced , allowed and followed accordingly . ’
26 From time to time draw up a questionnaire on some aspect of Christian truth or church life or community concerns and use those in contact with different segments of the congregation to interview selected individuals in order to sample opinion and collect suggestions .
27 One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction .
28 The professor will also be expected to undertake examining duties and such administrative tasks as will from time to time arise , including possibly being head of department ( see below ) .
29 The following three forms of rates of interest may be regarded as suitable for use where it is envisaged that the rate of interest should fluctuate from time to time according to market rates :
30 Nevertheless because they are supposed to be men of wide experience and outstanding capability the bishop may from time to time give them particular tasks to do in connection with parish priests .
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