Example sentences of "occasionally [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an important skill because even experienced pilots do occasionally make approaches which are far too high and which can be redeemed if they can side-slip quickly and accurately . |
| 2 | A journalist , for example , or a first aid attendant , or a person acting as an ‘ observer ’ for an organisation such as the N.C.C.L. does not really take part in the event itself , although he may occasionally make the police task of keeping order more difficult . |
| 3 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 4 | I mean he might occasionally want to move it a foot , but there would be no way he 'd be able to make the nice adjustments in that way . |
| 5 | Children do occasionally comment on the length of dresses though , and have to solve the problem of the dress that is too long for them to walk in , or the jacket which is too small . |
| 6 | A person with no connection with the occult can occasionally experience this when cat-napping during the day . |
| 7 | Although I have not seen it scratch against rocks recently , it does still occasionally gulp air from the surface . |
| 8 | Polar bears for example will occasionally throw lumps of ice or rocks at seals while hunting them , and in captivity they regularly throw objects around , apparently in play . |
| 9 | Should you find that despite all this you do occasionally eat too much , try to take extra exercise , the occasional long walk at least , to work it off . |
| 10 | Unions were , by and large , organisations of favoured minorities , though mass strikes could occasionally mobilise the masses . |
| 11 | They call this the ‘ coercive hypothesis ’ when both the parent and the child learn that they can occasionally win a battle by shouting louder or hitting harder . |
| 12 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 13 | For a treat for myself I 'd occasionally buy a cream cake . |
| 14 | It 's not good just to occasionally buy a flag , or to sponsor some friends mor marathon , one needs more than good intentions . |
| 15 | You might occasionally need to change your exercise programme to fit in with different needs or different time constraints but it is essential that you maintain an adequate level of physical fitness . |
| 16 | Students of local history may very occasionally need to take into account the difference between Greenwich Mean Time and Summer Time , but those who are researching the histories of maritime ports from which merchant or royal naval vessels sailed will almost certainly have to pay regard to the system of reckoning found in ships ' log-books , particularly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 17 | One slight disappointment is in the fret finishing : the frets seem properly set into the fingerboard but some of the ends on the treble side are sitting ( or have lifted ) slightly off the fingerboard , allowing the top E to occasionally catch underneath them . |
| 18 | You have to assume that Mobs will occasionally fall prey to animosity come what may . |
| 19 | Racism was not wiped out when Lyon was minister , on the contrary some of the worst cases of human suffering at the hands of Immigration Officers occurred in his regime , but he did occasionally act with some humanity . |
| 20 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 21 | He had a tame magpie which , in keeping with tradition , would occasionally steal shiny objects , and a short-eared brown owl which was quartered in his barn and developed a habit of flying at the heads of visitors and knocking off their hats . |
| 22 | well Akhenaten took it even further and it was an offence punishable by death to even say the word gods and if you visit Ancient Egypt and walk around the ruins , you will occasionally know they were fond of putting these hieroglyphic erm er inscriptions over everything . |
| 23 | ‘ Very low risk ’ activity is not known to be a risk but could occasionally result in transfer of these body fluids to another person . |
| 24 | A very small number of text types , such as poems , advertisements , and jokes , will occasionally manipulate or flout the grammatical rules of the language to create special effect . |
| 25 | For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind . |
| 26 | Other sexual behaviour can occasionally present problems as described by a psychologist . |
| 27 | Since fleas do jump , of course , there is no certainty that they will not occasionally land on a chair , but the likelihood is greatly reduced if the dog is kept off furniture . |
| 28 | They might occasionally encroach or anticipate , but that was all . |
| 29 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 30 | He would occasionally clash with the Doctor on decisions , but would be able to make intelligent enquiry and bring sound common sense to bear in moments of stress . |