Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Ant begins to hum one of the latest hit sounds and starts to move in time to it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is said to drop at times to below 8 , but I have never yet lost it with 7 × 50 binoculars . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Backs begin to bite in time for Twickenham |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Managers who do not work as a team and provide support for each other and their staff can not hope to succeed at times of staff shortage . |
| 16 | These are just a few of the situations that you may have to tackle from time to time . |
| 17 | Their low cost means that a secretary can have a computer to herself instead of having to compete for time with many other users from other departments in the company . |
| 18 | Miss Berggren 's hair appears to move in time of its own accord as James Brown 's Feel Good song plays . |
| 19 | Such periods will often be found to correspond with times of particularly stressful social change for the individual . |
| 20 | ( 123 ) Patriotic Englishmen have been known to strike in time of war . |
| 21 | Willey , credited with bringing Manly to pre-eminence before spells with Balmain , Norths , Souths and , most recently , Penrith , hopes to arrive in time for Sunday 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay , against Halifax . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is , however , a video of his performance which he is encouraged to play from time to time by his two children . |
| 24 | Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name . |
| 25 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 26 | The children remained preoccupied by their loss and would continue to cry from time to time , but in an increasingly hopeless and dejected way . |
| 27 | As it was imperative that they get to Paris as quickly as possible they embarked on a slow train , hoping to arrive in time for their turn at the theatre . |
| 28 | The phone continued to ring from time to time ; messengers continued to call . |
| 29 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 30 | It will therefore be desirable to define the consequences of a failure to perform on time , for instance by stating that " time for performance is of the essence " , or by defining a term as a " condition " or by expressly providing that " if X fails to perform on time in accordance with this provision , Y shall be entitled to terminate this contract " . |