Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] time to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 2 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 3 | In fact , the behaviour of the janissaries bred a smouldering resentment which erupted from time to time into acts of armed resistance . |
| 4 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 5 | Louis de Broglie also tried from time to time throughout his later life to find ways of reconciling quantum mechanics with a more deterministic picture . |
| 6 | Frequently generals thought it best if they were outmanoeuvred to in effect accept an honourable surrender er and er bargains of this kind occurred from time to time between largely mercenary armies . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) A recognised body which is a company limited by shares shall insure with authorised insurers against the losses referred to in paragraph ( 3 ) of this Rule over and above the maximum indemnity provided from time to time by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 8 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 9 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 10 | The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority . |
| 11 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 12 | The rate of interest on loans recommended from time to time by the Building Societies ' Association ( which is at present 11 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that , contrary to statements made from time to time by Northern Ireland Ministers , the administration of justice in Northern Ireland is signally failing to do that ? |
| 14 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 15 | We flirted from time to time with good-looking or not-so-good-looking men in the company . |
| 16 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 17 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 18 | The salary of such officers is restricted to an amount specified from time to time by the Secretary of State and they are not permitted to manage other council staff ( clause 9 ) . |
| 19 | Although the birth-rate fluctuated from time to time during the century — for example , it was low in the inter-war years and high in the immediate post-Second World War years — the proportion of survivors at each age , and especially among the young , increased throughout the period . |
| 20 | An indicator of popular views of Party leaders can be seen in the wild rumours which circulated from time to time about prominent figures in the NSDAP . |
| 21 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |
| 22 | It was thick with alder and willow ; the water , green and shaded , flashed from time to time with coins of reflected sunlight . |