Example sentences of "on several occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several occasions , however , delegates have faced obstruction and harassment in carrying out their research . |
| 2 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 3 | Harry MacAdoo , then the Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin , on several occasions put forward the argument that Southern protestants were a minority group with their own culture and traditions , and thus deserved to have schools for themselves in order to hand on their own traditions . |
| 4 | This is not a new issue and I have spoken to the Tyne Brewery and its counterpart at Masham on several occasions in the past and tried to argue that ‘ brewed in Newcastle and Masham ’ would indeed be a more honest alternative to their current advertising policy . |
| 5 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 8 | The site has a special significance for Icelanders , whose independence has been compromised on several occasions over the years . |
| 9 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 10 | The Prince and Princess had both been on particularly good form throughout that Gulf tour , and were reduced to giggles on several occasions , none more so than during a desert picnic . |
| 11 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 12 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |
| 13 | On several occasions before Isaac 's birth we have seen the purposes of God brought to the edge of disaster by Abraham . |
| 14 | On several occasions he left the bathroom feeling weak and drained , only to stop on the dark landing at the onset of another wave of nausea . |
| 15 | They resisted external governments on several occasions by fighting , sometimes with heroic defiance against overwhelming forces . |
| 16 | His anxiety was that the cost of unification would cripple the West German economy , an anxiety I was to hear expressed on several occasions . |
| 17 | Brown Windsor , also a Whitbread Gold Cup winner , in 1989 , is trained by Lambourn-based Nicky Henderson , who has gone close in the Grand National on several occasions . |
| 18 | On several occasions after that , Chelsea almost increased their lead . |
| 19 | Disputes over opting out have ended in the High Court on several occasions . |
| 20 | On several occasions the Army forwards exposed a certain frailty in the RAF 's defence around the fringes and launched promising sorties deep into enemy territory . |
| 21 | Prior to 1982 , the park 's alligators were kept in the reptile house , where , on several occasions , the female constructed a nest of dead plant material and laid eggs . |
| 22 | Gehlen knew more about Russian intelligence than anyone else in Germany and on several occasions had outwitted Russian intelligence completely . |
| 23 | The courts have made clear on several occasions that section 76 lays down a ‘ general principle ’ of parental choice which is only one of a number of factors to which an LEA could or should have regard when exercising their functions . |
| 24 | Between then and 1872 Millend was advertised for sale by auction on several occasions . |
| 25 | Jane had heard sounds of violence coming from the Shill 's room on several occasions , and she knew that in early October , shortly before their arrival , Maria had complained to the police after sustaining a broken collar bone when Joseph pushed her through a window . |
| 26 | Their conversations with the locals was verging on the insulting , and they had , on several occasions , picked up and quaffed other men 's beer , by design , but feigning error . |
| 27 | Such actions were virtually undetectable , and on several occasions suspicion there might be , but proof was impossible . |
| 28 | Feared as he was , the townsfolk had gathered to oppose him on several occasions , once when he affronted their God-fearing attitudes by ordering his men to rip the timber fan-faulting from the local church to use in the construction of Lambourn Palace . |
| 29 | In fact , on several occasions after he left , he would come down to sort out a problem for us . |
| 30 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |