Example sentences of "occasions [subord] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There are a few occasions where it is absolutely necessary to issue a general instruction . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 4 | Yesterday the Torbay coroner said 14 out of 32 suicides this year had recently been released from the unit , which he has criticised on several occasions since it replaced more secure psychiatric hospitals that have been closed by the area health authority . |
| 5 | On those rare occasions when it slipped out accidentally , her rage was a clear indication of how deeply his carelessness pained her . |
| 6 | The reduction of the horse 's anxiety through movement and calm handling , not only solved the bit problem for that day but also prevented the horse from establishing an undesirable form of behaviour to present on other occasions when it felt anxious . |
| 7 | And it is certainly true that , on previous form , the centre party has failed to extract any long-term benefit from recent occasions when it has held the balance of power . |
| 8 | There may be rare occasions when it is desirable to emphasise the importance of some decisions by stating specifically that it is the decision of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 9 | So there are occasions when it is important to check the meaning attached to a particular word . |
| 10 | ‘ But there were occasions when it just was n't possible to get time off to meet her , especially during vital periods such as haymaking . |
| 11 | Pavlov 's dog analogizes to previous occasions when it learns to expect its dinner as before when the bell rings as before , the ape simulates when it ‘ apes ’ . |
| 12 | Naturally , there are occasions when it is not possible for the carrier to deliver the goods . |
| 13 | ‘ On rare occasions when it is unbearable , with a jet engine noise screaming inside my head , and combining with other roaring noises , I take sleeping pills and try to go back to sleep . |
| 14 | Ever since I started observing it , about 30 years ago , the magnitude has remained between 4.6 and 5.3 , with a mean of 4.9 , but there are occasions when it has fallen to below 6 . |
| 15 | While market forces may undoubtedly bring many positive benefits , both socially and politically , there are many occasions when it is legitimate to subject them to regulation in order to secure confidence and fairness in the operation of the financial markets . |
| 16 | Such experimental evidence can of course be extremely valuable , but there may be occasions when it needs to be augmented by observations of children in more natural surroundings . |
| 17 | We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property . |
| 18 | I say " in principle " because , life being what it is , there are many occasions when it is impossible to say whether a story is a pure detection affair or one partaking of more of the crime element . |
| 19 | If for any reason you need to revoke your will urgently , and there are occasions when it comes about , you need to destroy it . |
| 20 | There are also occasions when it is fitting for everything in a service to be either purist and ‘ traditional ’ or ‘ modern ’ . |
| 21 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
| 22 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 23 | It 's er partly chlorine yes but it there are occasions when it smells like T C P . |
| 24 | It tried to define more clearly those occasions when it could make a positive and explicit contribution to solving the problems facing local activists rather than just becoming involved in learning-through-doing activities with the latter . |
| 25 | Most of the time it was rigid and still under the hot sky but on the occasions when it swayed , though no one noticed a breeze , there was a tiny ticking noise of brittle head against dry stalk . |
| 26 | Apparently you were n't averse to trying to score with me — on the occasions when it suited you . |
| 27 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 28 | If the relationship between recall and other measures is entirely mediated by characteristics of the different junctions we would expect to find that within an individual junction there would be no consistent differences between those occasions when it was recalled and those when it was not recalled on any of the other variables . |
| 29 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 30 | There are some occasions when it is educationally valuable to offer such a child the " centre-stage " for a while through the drama itself . |