Example sentences of "[ex0] are occasions [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , there are occasions and occasions . ’ |
| 2 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 3 | So there are occasions when it is important to check the meaning attached to a particular word . |
| 4 | There are occasions when time drags , and others when it flies . |
| 5 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 6 | While a number of such problems can be treated successfully with deep-acting remedies or hypnotherapy , there are occasions when these can not reach deeply enough into the patient 's core . |
| 7 | But Mr Westbrook adds : ‘ There are occasions when we might invoice a customer in Austrian schillings , bank it in a DM bank account and yet account for it in sterling . ’ |
| 8 | Naturally , there are occasions when it is not possible for the carrier to deliver the goods . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But there are occasions when they can conflict with the official policy of the organisation . |
| 11 | Irrespective of party , Home Secretaries are well aware that there are occasions when they are expected to appear ‘ tough ’ and take care to adjust their vocabulary and presentation according to their audience . |
| 12 | But there are occasions when this is not so clear . |
| 13 | If for any reason you need to revoke your will urgently , and there are occasions when it comes about , you need to destroy it . |
| 14 | It 's er partly chlorine yes but it there are occasions when it smells like T C P . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , levity is sometimes difficult to resist , for there are occasions when even the most solemn and serious student of legislation is compelled to the conclusion either that Parliament has gone off its collective head or that the parliamentary draftsman was drunk , demented or determined to perpetrate ( and perpetuate ) some private joke in the well-founded hope that it would not be spotted until it was too late . |
| 16 | There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line . |
| 17 | The reason is that the main function of such an extended phrase remains identification of some entity or other ; and there are occasions when that purpose can be helped along by introducing a P which applies to some other E. |
| 18 | But the timber of woodlands always has a claim to be treated as a commercial crop , and though the making of a tree preservation order does not necessarily involve the owner in any financial loss ( isolated trees or groups of trees are usually planted expressly as an amenity ) , there are occasions when it does . |
| 19 | Now there are occasions where members legitimately need to attend committees to speak to something in which they have an interest but the difficulty is , that in the past when we had permanent chairman , a member who wanted to attend the meeting had to ask the permission of that permanent chairman and there are occasions when that permanent chairman thought , well , there is no need for that member to attend and he has said no . |
| 20 | But there are occasions when we 've had to rip and tip but it 's causing a problem |
| 21 | There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate , but been too cowardly to refuse . |
| 22 | I mean there are occasions when you |
| 23 | There 's actually a very different difficult problem with sexual harassment , which is that erm there are occasions when it looks as if it 's going to be difficult for a college not to go ahead , even when the victim has withdrawn her or his complaint . |