Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 2 | Keen Hunter defends his Abbaye crown and the rain has come in time for John Gosden 's flier . |
| 3 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 4 | Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ? |
| 5 | The professor will be qualified for election as an official member of the board of the faculty ( which has final authority over the proceedings of its sub-faculties ) , and will be expected to serve from time to time on the various standing and ad hoc committees appointed by the board . |
| 6 | Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas . |
| 7 | The discovery in the quarries of pre-historic footprints of dinosaurs — iguanodon or megalosaurus — has occurred from time to time , notably in 1963 when samples were removed to the British Museum , and again in 1980 when over 30 footprints were uncovered at Townsend during building work . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 9 | And colleagues , a couple of colleagues that , er , few of us appear to appreciate from time to time , and those are the signers who do a very important job for some delegates who are here this week . |
| 10 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 11 | The committee has asked from time to time , that I keep it updated with er European legislation , in so far as it affects employments matters , and this I 've intended to do in Paper K. There are two Appendix . |
| 12 | His articles on his childhood and schooldays had won praise from time to time from all but the most dour Communists , who resented his privileged background . |
| 13 | You can use DATA in conjunction with READ to include data in your program which you may need to change from time to time , but which does not need to be different every time you run the program . |
| 14 | ( Ant begins to hum one of the latest hit sounds and starts to move in time to it . |
| 15 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 16 | A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource . |
| 17 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |
| 18 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 19 | The third source of signals , autonomic nervous activities , was first noticed by Darwin , although their nervous control was not then known ; he instanced shivering at times of fear in humans . |
| 20 | The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage . |
| 21 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 22 | It is said to drop at times to below 8 , but I have never yet lost it with 7 × 50 binoculars . |
| 23 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 24 | The unpulsed sounds seem to relate to times of heightened excitement , such as during feeding , when stranded or in a state of distress or alarm , or between mother and newborn calf . |
| 25 | Backs begin to bite in time for Twickenham |
| 26 | A London girl whose father had died lived at times in the next street with her grandmother , moving between the two homes . |
| 27 | The futures price tends to rise over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , so again the basis is zero at delivery . |
| 28 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 29 | I could n't understand how these moments had become frozen in time like that . |
| 30 | The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent . |