Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strains of being a Member of Parliament are extremely great from time to time . |
| 2 | All the defenders seemed to get up front from time to time . |
| 3 | Tinkering with local government boundaries did not seem to help either , although it was clearly necessary from time to time to take steps to match the changing facts of social geography to local authority boundaries and status . |
| 4 | Are regularly close in time to the problem behaviour . |
| 5 | I 've managed to get them pretty manky from time to time and a spin through the washing machine brings them up as good as new . |
| 6 | You will note that the criteria for these usable answers describe antecedents and consequences that are very close in time to the problem behaviours and can possibly be changed . |
| 7 | Thus it is very close in time to the Tyrannicides ; and the face has very much the character of Harmodios or the Kritian boy . |
| 8 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |