Example sentences of "from time to time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter , and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night . |
| 2 | From time to time they shed meteorites and the odd one will make a small , exotic dent on the surface of pop . |
| 3 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 4 | From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments . |
| 5 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 6 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 7 | Kalchu and Chola were both at home and from time to time they looked down , both repelled and fascinated . |
| 8 | From time to time they surface to make regulation a topic of political debate . |
| 9 | Judges have a lively perception of public opinion on sentences ; from time to time they receive letters from disgruntled members of the public , and they read criticism of their decisions in the newspapers . |
| 10 | The goal of social independence , of helping people to ‘ look after themselves ’ , is a very important one , but many individuals with long-term mental disorder may also need specific medical and psychological treatment to lessen the burden of symptoms ; from time to time they may also need extra supervision , care and shelter . |
| 11 | ‘ I just play for relaxation nowadays , but I know two of the guys who play here regularly and from time to time they invite me to join them . ’ |
| 12 | From time to time one gains brief purchase , |
| 13 | When Madame Denis asked him why he went to such lengths , he answered , ‘ Esther , one should do like the good God ; from time to time one should go and live among His own . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Beveridge told my colleague Bryan Rostron : ‘ I think from time to time one is brought in for overseas work in parts of the world where the old English system of justice still applies . |
| 15 | From time to time one feels that an industry is approaching a critical point , one at which the pursuit of future success requires quite a significant reorganisation of existing thought patterns . |
| 16 | In education , as in other disciplines , bodies of opinion may develop from time to time which present an unusually sharp challenge to accepted wisdom . |
| 17 | Many organisations will have important " one-off " industrial relations issues arising from time to time which are suitable for a similar approach . |
| 18 | From time to time we visited the old barrio chino , the red-light district , which formed a kind of everyman 's land at the heart of the bell-haunted , church-loaded city . |
| 19 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 20 | From time to time we emerge from the factory to buy raw materials at Safeway or Mothercare , and in the end my daily discipline only echoes the great Baconian System when I purchase a frozen chicken . |
| 21 | From time to time we offer other fruit pies such as cherry , apricot , blueberry , etc . |
| 22 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 23 | From time to time we have copies of WWF News and other member communications returned to us because people have moved house and forgotten to inform us of their new address . |
| 24 | We get down in the darkness and from time to time we pull the wire . |
| 25 | All its parts work fundamentally as one ’ ( 1977 , p. 47 ) , even if from time to time its various parts seem to be moving in different directions . |
| 26 | From time to time her voice trailed off and she became her grief , heavy as a stone . |
| 27 | He wondered from time to time what sort of a life she led in that remote cottage with her writer friend , how far it had satisfied her . |
| 28 | I remember that at primary school we had to keep a diary , and from time to time someone would be picked out to face the class and read it aloud . |
| 29 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 30 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |