Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [det] occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 2 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 3 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 4 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 5 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 6 | The Council permitted the laity to communicate with the cup on a very few occasions . |
| 7 | On a very few occasions , however , the police do make a point of denying links or connections which had been too easily assumed . |