Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1917 he was finally accepted , after several rejections , for front-line service in the East Surrey Regiment , and was wounded on three occasions . |
| 2 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 3 | If children are beaten with a stick by their parents when they transgress , he suggests that they will tend to avoid transgressing on those occasions when their actions are not concealed from their parents . |
| 4 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 5 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |
| 6 | In that office he had to deal first with the Visigothic king Alaric II and then with the Ostrogoth Theodoric I. He was twice accused of treason , but was exonerated on both occasions . |
| 7 | SUMMERCHILD : Oh , I think cars are usually included on these occasions . |
| 8 | Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions . |
| 9 | The Lothian Region ( Placing in Schools ) Appeal Committee is likely to meet on several occasions during late May and throughout June 1993 , to deal with appeals against refused placing requests for admission to primary and secondary schools for the session 1993/94 . |
| 10 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 11 | He was , he says , approached on two occasions by search consultants about public sector work before he entered into discussions with the Prudential in 1987 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The principal carers were to be interviewed on two occasions , firstly at or around the time of the sufferer 's first interview and secondly a year later . |
| 15 | Six children in each class are interviewed on four occasions , before the teaching of the topic , immediately before and after the formalisation lesson |
| 16 | The detective chief-inspector confirmed Anderson was interviewed on four occasions on Monday and twice yesterday . |
| 17 | He also reported on eight occasions where departments had spent more than the sums authorised by Parliament and had incurred excess votes . |
| 18 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |
| 19 | The investigation itself requires the test sessions to be repeated as often as possible , say on 5 occasions at each test time , to reduce the effects of variability . |
| 20 | No breaks in the cold chain were documented at the central storage facility , although vaccines kept at the study site were discarded on two occasions after power failures that lasted several hours . |
| 21 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 22 | In particular , I will focus on those occasions when executives try to solve problems that are potentially threatening , and they try to do so in a way that communicates caring and respect for the other . |
| 23 | He was fined on two occasions for making abusive comments to referees , he caused a storm by branding his players as ‘ boozers ’ , and his name was mysteriously connected with a local Swindon bookie . |
| 24 | In 999 he speaks of delay in getting the fleet into action , and suggests that delay occurred on other occasions , but without explaining why . |
| 25 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 26 | In Britain , there are two principal alternatives that have been proved to work on many occasions . |
| 27 | Although Walton J. referred on two occasions to the plaintiff being under a mistaken belief that they were bound to pay the duties it is clear from his findings that in relation to at least the last three payments they were in considerable doubt as to their liability and he said , at p. 745 : |
| 28 | In the United States this principle has the status of a constitutional principle , and the Supreme Court has on many occasions overturned criminal convictions because the supposed crime was too vaguely defined to give the necessary notice . |
| 29 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 30 | Insensitive and often racist policing have fused with inner urban decay to create a climate of both despair and rebellion in which black ( and white ) youth 's sense of injustice has on several occasions provoked urban revolt ( Benyon , 1984 ; West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Gifford , 1986 ) . |