Example sentences of "and on [adj] occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior tutors offer information and advice to applicants both on an individual basis and on collective occasions such as visit and interview days . |
| 2 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 3 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 4 | Sometimes there 's bluster , other times overstatement creeps in , and on two occasions ham-fistedness drops its calling card ( concept instrumentals like ‘ Necropolis ’ , for instance ) . |
| 5 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 6 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 7 | Their willingness to grant ex-parte and interlocutory injunctions has meant that liberties are sometimes extinguished without proper adjudication , and on other occasions that their vindication has been crucially delayed ( see the Zircon affair and the Spycatcher litigation in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 9 | For this reason , masks may be worn by personnel in operating theatres and on other occasions e.g wound dressing , when the patient is likely to be at risk of succumbing to infection . |
| 10 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 11 | What professionals discuss informally at conferences and on other occasions , within and across agency lines , is as important as contributions to journals in setting and sustaining this mood . |
| 12 | On occasion the sub-licence was signed by both parties in the foreign country , and on other occasions the whole negotiations were concluded by telex with no representative of the taxpayer visiting the foreign customer . |
| 13 | In these matters we were often able to avoid costly mistakes being made , and on other occasions improve the operational efficiency of our craft with advice on training and equipment , although I must admit that our requirements seldom matched the amount of money available . |
| 14 | ‘ It is here of course that Dickens himself stayed , in a house now put of this hotel , while finishing the writing of the immortal Nicholas Nickleby , and on other occasions and later in the hotel itself . ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Lady has also raised the issue of the European dimension , both here and on other occasions . |
| 16 | Sometimes , the mortgage advance will be sent by cheque and on other occasions it may be sent by telegraphic transfer . |
| 17 | Although in English we do on occasions say yes or no and on other occasions yes or no , no speaker of English would say that the meaning of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ was different with the different tones . |
| 18 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 19 | Although Rainald was a cleric , he did not take his religious vocation with any great seriousness , and on many occasions used his intelligence to give imperial policies an anti-papal effect . |
| 20 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 21 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 22 | Twice during the 1980s , Brazil effectively defaulted on its foreign debt and on many occasions has declared itself unable to carry out the promises made in its successive Letters of Intent to the IMF . |
| 23 | Reeth has always been a good walking centre , particularly for walkers from Tyneside and Teesside , and on many occasions I 've heard the hills round about echoing to a sound I love so well , the lilt of Geordie accents . |
| 24 | In the early part of 1991 , before all this occurred , I went through a period of time when my find rate dropped drastically and on many occasions I went out and came back home with nothing at all . |
| 25 | Their expertise is incredible and on many occasions they defeated Spanish invaders who were armed with swords and lances . |
| 26 | I mean you ask what it 's like erm being a member of the majority Labour group , being the leader of the City Council , it 's extremely hard work , it 's an enormous responsibility , and on many occasions it 's extremely frustrating because the amount of freedom that the City Council has to decide its policy and decide its spending priorities is reducing all the time . |
| 27 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 28 | For most people the church provided the main consolations in a short and hard life : devotions , ritual and , occasionally , the feasts of Scot ales , where the parson paid for the drink , and on great occasions , such as the Feast of St Pancras in Lewes , festivities and public ceremony . |
| 29 | At twelve and three-quarters stone , and on rare occasions touching thirteen , the load upon my one good leg had been considerable . |
| 30 | It may be that biologically we are on a continuum , and on rare occasions a child is born whose sex is uncertain . |