Example sentences of "[be] on [adj] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 2 | So it proved to be on this occasion . |
| 3 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 4 | Otherwise how could speaker Lentor tell the King that the speaker on that 's on that occasion could only be instructed by parliament . |
| 5 | Because it is on that occasion that you will already have , and will on your final visit , have made up your mind as to the nature of the northern part of the village of Skelton , the nature of the land immediately surrounding it , whether it be a paddock , or a small field , whether it be more associated in the minds of some with the open country , or in the minds of others with the village . |
| 6 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 7 | It concerned Lord Alfred Douglas who was on this occasion accompanied by Gide ( but not Wilde , who had returned to England ) and a boy called Ali with whom , according to Gide , Douglas was in love . |
| 8 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 9 | It was on this occasion , as we have seen , that Gandhi for the first time resorted to fasting as a form of satyāgraha . |
| 10 | If Baldwin is to be trusted , this visit had serious consequences , for it was on this occasion that the abbess placed a monastic veil on Matilda 's head , and when Rufus saw the veil , he went away . |
| 11 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 12 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |
| 13 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 14 | It was on this occasion that I drew Eliot 's attention to the remarkable tribute to the English church contained in Thomas Hardy 's Preface to the volume Late Lyrics and Earlier . |
| 15 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 16 | The annual gathering was on this occasion attended by supporters of far-right groups in Austria , Belgium , Germany and Italy . |