Example sentences of "[be] [verb] from time to time " in BNC.
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| 61 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 62 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 63 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 64 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 65 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 66 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 67 | Lyell saw each biogeographical province as a ‘ centre of creation ’ where new species typical of that province were created from time to time , spreading out from the centre to occupy as much territory as they could . |
| 68 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 69 | The professor will be qualified for election as one of the official members of the Boards of the Faculties of Mathematical Sciences and Physical Sciences who are elected from time to time by the respective faculties from the lists of qualified persons to hold office for two years . |
| 70 | A few freaks have been discovered from time to time , one amazing animal tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs and a dwarf specimen at as little as 3 lbs , but these were abnormal . |
| 71 | ‘ Obviously some of the locos at the Snowdon Mountain Railway have been fitted from time to time . |
| 72 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 73 | It is also not uncommon to find that the projection used to map a particular phenomenon is altered from time to time . |
| 74 | The scheme may well now be complete , but revision is recommended from time to time and thought must be given as to how this might be achieved . |
| 75 | In addition , it is supplemented from time to time by statements of practice or policy issued by the Panel . |
| 76 | There is nothing to stop the parties agreeing , after a dispute has arisen , to refer their dispute to an expert for his determination , and this is done from time to time , in the same way as arbitration agreements . |
| 77 | Other subjects include Place Names , Folklore , Clan Donald , Natural History with ornithology particularly covered , Geology , Transport , Distilling and a large section under the heading Descriptions , New material is being added all the time and a library list is printed from time to time . |
| 78 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 79 | With effect from 1 April 1990 , the maximum award is £8,925 ; that limit is reviewed from time to time . |
| 80 | Certain other mechanical effects have been mentioned from time to time . |
| 81 | However , constituency boundaries are changed from time to time . |
| 82 | In the autoshaping procedure , pigeons are confronted from time to time with presentations of an illuminated disc ( a response key ) signalling the delivery of food . |
| 83 | 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 . |
| 84 | And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin . |
| 85 | 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 ! |
| 86 | This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data . |
| 87 | They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on . |
| 88 | 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 . |
| 89 | 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 . |
| 90 | No new members of the board were elected , though the odd family friend was co-opted from time to time . |