Example sentences of "[prep] time to [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be done , though it involves going into a little detail from time to time about points of central importance , and it needs simplifications which trouble an author 's respect for exact truth and may appal an unsympathetic expert . |
| 2 | It was thick with alder and willow ; the water , green and shaded , flashed from time to time with coins of reflected sunlight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The doctrine of precedent restrains tribunals and the trial judges in the county courts and in the High Court from digressing into frolics of legal innovation , but even the trial judge will be presented from time to time with issues upon which there are no binding precedents . |
| 5 | And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery . |
| 6 | As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market . |
| 7 | Er unfortunately one has cases from time to time on girls of this age who set out to entice men . |
| 8 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 9 | In fact , the behaviour of the janissaries bred a smouldering resentment which erupted from time to time into acts of armed resistance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was not too difficult in the 1960s and 1970s to discern such contradictions in the East European countries , in the form of conflicts among various social groups , and in particular a conflict — which appeared openly from time to time in strikes , protests or even insurrections , and was only with difficulty contained and repressed — between those who control and direct the overall development of society and those whose lives and work are thus planned and regulated from above . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 14 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 15 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 16 | Over the years , although never establishing a close friendship with the Profumos , I have had an admiring acquaintance with both of them and am happy to see that their marriage was not ruined by this solitary episode and distressed indeed by its revival from time to time by creatures animated solely by greed . |
| 17 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 18 | The life of this normally gentle giant of a man was also punctuated from time to time by acts of sudden , often inexplicable , violence , usually associated with an over-generous intake of alcohol . |
| 19 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
| 20 | In addition , it is supplemented from time to time by statements of practice or policy issued by the Panel . |