Example sentences of "it [verb] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Dittmar takes a very dim view of Jansher 's behaviour , because it has occurred before . |
| 2 | Our aim is to prevent long-term unemployment , rather than just trying to cope with it after it has occurred . |
| 3 | It has occurred in Lake Victoria in East Africa . |
| 4 | It will also detect reinfection when it has occurred . |
| 5 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
| 6 | Football hooliganism is not a particularly new phenomenon , nor is it a peculiarly British problem , it has occurred all over the world . |
| 7 | It has occurred in each month from October to June , but is most usually found between December and May , either wintering or on spring passage . |
| 8 | In his book , The Stress Myth , he contradicts the usual assumption that unwanted stress is an inevitable part of life and teaches that instead of looking for ways of dealing with it after it has occurred , we ourselves should take action to prevent it happening at all . |
| 9 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 10 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 11 | ‘ It has occurred to you , Admiral Hawkins , that you might also be laying your own career on the line ? ’ |
| 12 | He admitted , however , that there had been ‘ some people in countries such as India to whom it has occurred to ask whether this [ Soviet policy ] is in keeping with the principle of non-alignment , with a non-bloc policy ’ . |
| 13 | It might be said that if the police are aware that the procession is likely to take place because it has occurred in the past , the ‘ triggering ’ justification for requiring advance notice is satisfied , and the chief of police could require compliance by indicating to those who have organised such marches on previous occasions that he is prepared to use his powers under section 12 to ensure co-operation if necessary . |
| 14 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 15 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 16 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 17 | This is not uncommon and it has occurred with many of the privatization issues in the equity market . |
| 18 | This statement was not only made but meant , said Kogan , " When change has been positively mounted it has occurred through advisory teachers rather than inspectors , in-service training rather than managerially dominated systems " ( Kogan 1973:145 ) |
| 19 | It has occurred to some that Melibee too may be a self-mocking parody but to read the work like this is to read with little sensitivity . |
| 20 | Arrested larvae accumulate during the spring and where Type II disease has been reported it has occurred in late summer or early autumn . |
| 21 | Unfortunately we 've not got to that stage yet , and it 's very rare for a threatened famine to be prevented by the international relief community , and even , once it has occurred , it 's very rare for the relief to run smoothly , so I think the research part is to try and find out how to get the right aid to the right people at the right time . |
| 22 | But it argues ministers should hesitate before going further with the publication of information that could be misused in the same way as it says occurred with published exam results . |
| 23 | Nor could it have occurred at a worse time . |
| 24 | Nor would it have occurred if her aunt had not written several gloomy letters to Mother — letters that had been full of pathos and self-pity . |
| 25 | ‘ If you had the intelligence of a retarded flea , Mr Sterne , might it have occurred to you that I was frightened ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
| 26 | The further away in time the message was situated , the less likely the speaker is to remember precisely the date and time at which it occurred , and the larger the time-span he is likely to make available for it to have occurred in . |
| 27 | I think the old lunatic asylum would be a good place for it to have occurred , do n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | It had occurred to her that most products came in a variety of sizes and offered a wide choice , but she felt the cosmetic trade was too dictatorial about what the customer should buy . |
| 29 | A hi-jacking of that magnitude would n't be likely to be quickly forgotten by the police in whose district it had occurred . |
| 30 | In the bustle of adapting to the new life of an MP at Westminster , it had occurred to me that I should look further at pensions . |