Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] several occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 2 | It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts . |
| 3 | He was accused of passing on ‘ state secrets ’ to the Agence France Presse reporter Lawrence Macdonald , whose account of the student protests has been referred to several occasions . |
| 4 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 5 | Thus , where a lease has been assigned on several occasions a series , or chain , of indemnities will be built up . |
| 6 | The Walls of Troy turf maze near Brandsby , North Yorkshire , is possibly the most ancient in Britain , though it has been re-cut on several occasions , most recently in 1934 , when carts using the grass verge had obliterated it . |
| 7 | The site has a special significance for Icelanders , whose independence has been compromised on several occasions over the years . |
| 8 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 9 | Before starting school he had attended the child development centre , received speech therapy and since had been seen on several occasions by the educational psychologist . |
| 10 | The current bases agreement , which had been revised on several occasions since its original signature in March 1947 , allowed the USA to use several military installations , including the huge facilities at Clark Field and Subic Bay , respectively the largest US Air Force and naval base outside North America . |
| 11 | Elections to the National Assembly , a body which had been suspended on several occasions since independence , were held in July 1979 , September 1984 and September 1989 . |
| 12 | From the early nineteenth century Japan had been approached on several occasions by Western nations active in Asian waters and anxious to initiate trading and other contacts . |
| 13 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 14 | The defences to murder have been reviewed on several occasions , most recently in 1989 by the House of Lords Select Committee on Murder and Life Imprisonment . |
| 15 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |