Example sentences of "[adj] on [det] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not merely a false stance though : the only person who knows the real Morrissey , his mother , has proved this on many occasions by telephoning Rough Trade 's office to complain about their handling of her delicate son . |
| 2 | So , I 'm sure members of this Committee have heard this on several occasions as we 've introduced the system , but we have had to put in a fairly complex and detailed system of assessing people 's needs , producing care packages to meet those needs , offering choice to those people , and responding to that choice , then doing what the D S S used to do , I E , a financial assessment of their ability to meet the costs of that care , and settling our contribution , and we 're involved therefore in contracting with the independent sector for purchase of that care , and with the collection of contributions from those individuals , with increasing numbers and increasing complexity . |
| 3 | In theory the theatre can hold about 2,800 people , although new security measures limit this on most occasions to around 2,000 . |
| 4 | Hull supporters , who have never seen their side successful at Wembley , have a list of what went wrong on each occasion . |
| 5 | Our instincts are wrong on this occasion ! |
| 6 | They are just as wrong on this occasion as they were on the previous one . |
| 7 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
| 8 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 9 | We have made that clear on many occasions . |
| 10 | The Scottish National party has made its view perfectly clear on many occasions and I reiterate that view this evening : radioactive material , whether it be spent nuclear fuel or waste , should be stored above ground , on site , where it can be subject to close inspection . |
| 11 | The courts have made clear on several occasions that section 76 lays down a ‘ general principle ’ of parental choice which is only one of a number of factors to which an LEA could or should have regard when exercising their functions . |
| 12 | Dad 's first name was George , and he had already made it clear on several occasions that when Granpa retired he had no intention of taking over from him as he did n't want to leave his mates on the docks . |
| 13 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 14 | Thanks , , it has proved acceptable on many occasions . |
| 15 | The word occurs twice in the present draft and I have explained in some detail why it is not acceptable on either occasion . |
| 16 | A majority will do but even less will be acceptable on some occasions . |
| 17 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 18 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 19 | The behaviour was similar on each occasion . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Leicester , East ( Mr. Vaz ) is specifically identifiable on this occasion . |
| 21 | It is appropriate on this occasion to record particular gratitude to Mr. James Baker , the United States Secretary of State . |
| 22 | So serious on many occasions that it subsided into ponderousness , pretentiousness , and treated the subject as life-style , liberation , and meaning of life . |
| 23 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 24 | You 've been peevish , arrogant , downright rude on most occasions that we 've met , so I 'm hardly likely to be labouring under any illusions , am I ? ’ |
| 25 | AIB engineers are not afraid of getting their hands dirty ; in fact , they claim that they are lucky on most occasions if it is only their hands . |
| 26 | I hasten to add that the North West , Yorkshire and Southern Divisions have notified me of their annual events and members will be most welcome on these occasions as well . |
| 27 | Brown Windsor , also a Whitbread Gold Cup winner , in 1989 , is trained by Lambourn-based Nicky Henderson , who has gone close in the Grand National on several occasions . |
| 28 | The latter on each occasion was either defeated by rough seas or spotted by enemy aircraft . |
| 29 | The level of funding has proved inadequate on several occasions ( Eros and Americana failures in 1983 and Budget Travel in 1984 , for instance ) . |
| 30 | He has always feared that he looks embarrassed or patronizing on these occasions . |