Example sentences of "been [verb] on [adj] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 2 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 3 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 4 | And actually have been to support on many occasions in her constituency . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus , where a lease has been assigned on several occasions a series , or chain , of indemnities will be built up . |
| 7 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |
| 8 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |
| 9 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 12 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties . |
| 15 | For example , the laws of optics , derived by induction from the results of laboratory experiments , have been used on numerous occasions in the design of optical instruments and these instruments have functioned satisfactorily . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 18 | The arguments had actually been rehearsed on many occasions : |
| 19 | It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts . |
| 20 | Parties of more than five are unusual , but flocks of 10–20 have been noted on five occasions , and one of 30 was seen in Chichester Harbour on 25 February 1967 , the largest yet recorded in the county . |
| 21 | At least by the time that the friend heard the click it must have been settled on that occasion that the electron 's spin was " up " . |
| 22 | Returning through Bologna he passed various tests for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica and was awarded a diploma , the conditions of entry , stipulating that members must be over the age of 20 , having been waived on this occasion . |
| 23 | Lord Lane did , however , express concern on behalf of the court that to some people , ‘ putting into the dock together defendants who [ had ] been arrested on different occasions or at different places makes it difficult to avoid the appearance of ‘ group justice ’ . |
| 24 | Jessica had been observed on many occasions , he was told , and with many young men . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been asked on many occasions if we could have more modern replacements for our 12-year-old sail designs . |
| 26 | Zipper , a gay sex shop in North London , has a licence but has been raided on numerous occasions by the Obscene Publications Squad . |
| 27 | While the latter 's name has been associated on many occasions with Dublin , to date it has not operated here . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ There you are then , ’ said Lydia , who had now been forced on several occasions to concede that Betty was not unsympathetic and understood more than Lydia would have thought her capable of . |
| 30 | 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 . |