Example sentences of "been [verb] on [adj] [adj] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions . |
| 2 | He had evidently been in fear of his life and purchased the weapon for that reason , since he had already been attacked on two previous occasions . |
| 3 | It has been used on many ceremonial occasions over the past 25 years and serves as a constant reminder of the common history and friendship shared . |
| 4 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 5 | Recalling how Meh'Lindi had been violated on that other occasion , Jaq feared for her sanity once her psychic hood was removed . |
| 6 | We have been able to maintain parity within the ERM , interest rates have been reduced on eight successive occasions and we now have one of the lowest , if not the lowest , monthly inflation rates in the Community . |
| 7 | ‘ She had been warned on four previous occasions about going overdrawn . |
| 8 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |