Example sentences of "on many occasions " in BNC.

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1 Amnesty International has asked the Government on many occasions to lift those measures which place obstacles in the path of asylum seekers attempting to gain access to the refugee-determination process .
2 While the latter 's name has been associated on many occasions with Dublin , to date it has not operated here .
3 Jamie called her Ug the Cavewoman , Francis had tried talking with her on many occasions :
4 On many occasions I seen students surprised by the unpredictability of these bits , and are unwilling to use them again .
5 But on many occasions you 've got talented people who just do n't fill the job specifications , but whose qualities , put to an objective agreed by everybody , are valuable beyond measure .
6 For the Prince , it was the beginning of a love affair , one that has taken him back to Italy on many occasions .
7 Yet the volunteers had been beavering away down there for two months , working well into the night on many occasions , and were to be there for many more months to come .
8 He was certainly present on many occasions .
9 David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain .
10 The arguments had actually been rehearsed on many occasions :
11 He has come to discuss things with me on many occasions and I am always asking him to come and do just one concert with the orchestra .
12 Gobbi had sung Falstaff on many occasions .
13 The vehicle used , as on many occasions in the past , was Chapman Pincher , the defence correspondent of the Daily Express who on 19 June entertained George Brown , the ebullient and unpredictable Labour politician , to lunch at the Ecu de France restaurant .
14 It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’
15 It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 .
16 It has been rebuilt and extended on many occasions with the passing centuries , much of the present buildings dating from the middle part of the 19th century .
17 Of course , I had heard these same sentiments expressed by his lordship on many occasions before , but such was the depth of conviction with which he spoke in this august setting that I could not help but be moved afresh .
18 In Britain , there are two principal alternatives that have been proved to work on many occasions .
19 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 .
20 As his wife had pointed out tartly , on many occasions , she herself would never get through a quarter of her work if she indulged herself in such idleness .
21 In fact , on many occasions , Maisie talked more than Henry .
22 Although Rainald was a cleric , he did not take his religious vocation with any great seriousness , and on many occasions used his intelligence to give imperial policies an anti-papal effect .
23 On many occasions I have been exasperated by people attempting these manoeuvres who ca n't even use a harness or sail consistently in strong winds .
24 During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people .
25 On many occasions the guilt caused by these problems is exacerbated by the opinions of others — from well-meaning friends and relatives to the views of media ‘ experts ’ .
26 On many occasions I have heard environmentalists say that they do not wish to be ‘ tarred by the same brush ’ which has so comprehensively covered some extremists in the Animal Rights Movement and which has brought that movement into disrepute .
27 Coleridge was to speak and write on many occasions of the ‘ visions of childhood ’ which so filled him during his London school-days .
28 Willie Allen and Jim Baxter clashed on many occasions but by far the most bizarre was the Scottish cup final replay of 1963 when Baxter played an influential role in Rangers 3–0 victory over Celtic .
29 Neither the salts nor the drug were illegal in either Scotland or England and Johnson , along with other team-mates , had taken them as part of their pre-match rituals on many occasions .
30 Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man .
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