Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 2 | What else they saw in and near the city they did not record , but it evidently did not include on this occasion the famous caverns at Wookey Hole . |
| 3 | Sir Thomas 's father , Sir Lawrence Dundas , when active in the politics of the city of Edinburgh , was a notable supporter of charities and other good causes , contributing on one occasion as much as £1,000 for the raising of nine companies of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers for service in the American War of Independence , a contribution exceeded only by the city itself , which gave £ 1,050 . |
| 4 | Previous convictions : several as a juvenile for theft and taking without consent : conditionally discharged on each occasion . |
| 5 | He was also surprised at a later date to find on one occasion an abstract in Minton 's studio . |
| 6 | Colby Simpkins is one of the elect , above familial ties or mundane circumstances , like Harry in The Family Reunion and Celia in The Cocktail Party — although Eliot has on this occasion eschewed the Furies or martyrdom as a way of emphasizing Colby 's difference from those who are content with a secular existence . |
| 7 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 8 | Listening on one occasion to a Greek Orthodox argue against the ordination of women , I had the distinct impression that his God , who seemed to reside immediately above the ceiling of the room in which we were gathered , had issued the most precise directions to humanity . |
| 9 | What the pope had decided on one occasion would be applicable in a similar instance . |
| 10 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 11 | No losses were suffered on this occasion , although that night one of nine 148 Squadron Wellingtons failed to return from a raid on Tripoli , Flg.Off . |
| 12 | After various numbers of trials the dog had its salivation measured after it had heard the sound , even though it was not fed on that occasion . |
| 13 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 14 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 15 | A deputation from Bedford Corporation , acting on this occasion as the Sewer Authority , proposed joint action to build a temporary smallpox hospital on land held by the local government board . |
| 16 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 17 | Nothing was said on this occasion about his interest in Masai land , though he appears to have discussed the subject privately with F.C . |
| 18 | Madame Grimaud treated all this with brisk courtesy , remarking on one occasion that it could at least be said that Frederica was a good moral influence . |
| 19 | This section gives relief in respect of a disposition made on the occasion of the dissolution of the marriage or if it varies a disposition made on that occasion . |
| 20 | They formed the great bulk of the riotous crowd in 1749 who , after three sailors had been robbed in a brothel , rioted and burned down bawdy houses in the Strand in a three-day riot , although the only unfortunate Tyburn example made on this occasion was the improbably named Bosavern Penlez , a wig maker . |
| 21 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 22 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
| 23 | None of us knows what happened on that occasion , and it is sad that the participants can not remember , either . |
| 24 | Well you say it should open it very quickly , what happened on this occasion ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 26 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 27 | If the original parties to a transaction effectively have no other outlet or source once the original contract has been awarded , and they are highly uncertain about the contemporary environment at the time when terms must be renegotiated , an organizational form ( for example a monitoring and control system ) that is tailor-made for that transaction might substantially reduce bargaining costs on each occasion when renegotiation takes place . |
| 28 | So the manager or ‘ customer ’ may choose not to buy on this occasion . |
| 29 | Her marriage to Archibald earl of Angus — whose name , with unwitting appropriateness , she spelt ‘ Anguisshe ’ — and subsequent divorce , combined with her demands for a place in political life , produced on one occasion the agonized response that she might have it if only she would be ‘ a good Scots woman ’ , and created continuing and profoundly irritating headaches for those who were trying to control Scottish affairs . |
| 30 | Endoscopic ultrasonography , successfully performed on this occasion , showed that this was due to minor local thickening of the oesophageal wall . |