Example sentences of "from [noun] to time [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I receive representations from time to time about various aspects of the home improvement grants scheme and its operation ; in the main those concern individual cases .
2 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 .
3 Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted .
4 ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund .
5 ( b ) evidence of compliance with the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies ;
6 ( b ) that the body complies with the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies ; and
7 Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized .
8 Inevitably , this will involve looking from time to time at individual media , as each has its own characteristics , requirements , and available research resources .
9 I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop .
10 While Oliver was eating , the strange boy looked at him from time to time with great attention .
11 We flirted from time to time with good-looking or not-so-good-looking men in the company .
12 The majority of glaziers and glass merchants find themselves from time to time with either ‘ salvage ’ plate glass from broken shop windows or ‘ off cuts ’ from new shop windows , explained Malcolm .
13 Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface .
14 take the view that erm they are put up by the Council from time to time for various reasons .
15 I still did some acting from time to time for short periods .
16 The headship of the amalgamated department will be assigned by the Hebdomadal Council from time to time for specified periods of not less than five years to one of the persons holding an established academic post in the department , normally with the title of professor or reader .
17 The whole area had a horribly uneasy and melancholy atmosphere and he noticed that from time to time on that bright summer 's day occasional metallic rattlings came from the depths of the quarry .
18 In its place , the Home Secretary would appoint a standing Advisory Council to report and make recommendations from time to time on such aspects of penal treatment as he might refer to it or as the Council itself , having consulted the Home Secretary , felt that it ought to consider .
19 The modern modification of representative democracy is therefore to see the public as being allowed to choose from time to time between two or more broad political programmes , and being able to reject a party that has failed to carry out its promises .
20 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 ] .
21 Both his father and his grandfather Moses Harris [ q.v. ] were artists ; the younger John Harris exhibited at the Royal Academy from time to time between 1810 and 1834 .
22 Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict .
23 If this help is given it will be for three months in the first instance and the position will be reviewed from time to time after that .
24 But the publication of these magazines was of course very demanding both in time and money and several faded away in the following decade , to be revived from time to time in spasmodic bouts of enthusiasm .
25 From time to time in recent years , analyses have been made , based on information in reference books , of the social background of the more senior judiciary .
26 Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases .
27 This atmosphere will ultimately emerge as something of immense value when ‘ the kindly light of reason ’ finally sweeps away all the incredible and stifling nonsense , which has been introduced from time to time in futile attempts to counter the inexorable demand that reason and common sense shall ultimately triumph , and replace superstition and blind senseless faith .
28 From time to time in Ancient Near Eastern literature we find protest made against such conventions .
29 It causes ‘ thrush ’ , which is an infection of mucous membranes occurring from time to time in young children , characterized by white patches developing in the mouth .
30 But seriously , vacancies will arise from time to time in all areas within the company .
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