Example sentences of "on this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
| 2 | The central figure on this occasion was the more locally known organizer , Margaret Irwin of Glasgow , acknowledged to be an expert on women 's trades in Scotland . ] " |
| 3 | However , Minton 's most appreciative critic on this occasion was the Marxist John Berger : ‘ One senses Jamaica as a definite place in these pictures — the alternating dryness and dampness of the vegetation , the nights of unreal moonlight , the false animation of the people in the wooden cafés beneath Coca Cola advertisements and naked light bulbs . |
| 4 | The vessel used by the smugglers on this occasion was the sailing yacht Eloise , a forty five feet sloop which had loaded her illicit cargo in the Mediterranean . |
| 5 | They formed the great bulk of the riotous crowd in 1749 who , after three sailors had been robbed in a brothel , rioted and burned down bawdy houses in the Strand in a three-day riot , although the only unfortunate Tyburn example made on this occasion was the improbably named Bosavern Penlez , a wig maker . |
| 6 | What I missed most at this occa , on this occasion was the opportunity for bible study , but I think getting pe er , a visitor of another kind there was able to visit some of the bible studies each morning . |
| 7 | Now I regret to say that the only political party that actually entered into negotiations on this occasion was the Conservative Party . |
| 8 | But by far his main task on this story was the designing of the Mechonoids , or Mechons as the first scripts called them . |
| 9 | The latest missed opportunity on this front was the 1992 Health of the Nation English health strategy , issued by the Department of Health . |