Example sentences of "have [been] occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 2 | There have been occasions when the security forces have over-reacted and strayed from the strictly enforced doctrine of ‘ minimum force ’ . |
| 3 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 4 | For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition . |
| 5 | During queuing periods , there have been occasions when I have witnessed nursery nurse students , with the best of intentions , ‘ helping ’ life preparation students , for example by operating the machine for them or by ‘ allowing ’ them to jump the queue . |
| 6 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 7 | Documentary programmes : These are usually made by the TV companies themselves , but there have been occasions where the film has been made jointly with an outside organisation . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , there have been occasions over the past four years when my morale has been very low , ’ he told The Bookseller this week . |
| 9 | As a consequence , there have been occasions when reports produced at the central point have either been suspect in content or alternatively have failed to meet their deadline . |
| 10 | But their have been failings of the system have n't there , I mean there have been occasions |
| 11 | There are occasions — there have been occasions in this Parliament — when I have to make a supplementary business statement . |
| 12 | There have been occasions — |
| 13 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 14 | I accept that , and I admit that there have been occasions when I and other hon. Members have blackmailed various organisations , including British Rail , with the amount of time that we would take in the House unless they did something to improve the position of our constituents . |
| 15 | He says that there have been occasions when he 's had a gun held to his head and been told to operate on someone 's brother first , or he 'd be shot . |
| 16 | ‘ There have been occasions when there were three different speakers all preaching at the same time , attempting to drown each other out . |
| 17 | There have been occasions this season when Quakers have taken the lead and then sloppily folded ; but this time the players rolled up their sleeves to jealously protect the three points . |
| 18 | And unless we happen to be absolute saints , I 'll bet most of us would admit that there have been occasions when we would willingly have ‘ divorced ’ our young ourselves … |
| 19 | And there have been occasions now where our local police , certainly , and that er frees areas and just knock the back of the . |