Example sentences of "and on occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the Ireland beloved of the tourists who fill the pubs of the south-west , but the neglected northern coast , where a walker can sample some of Western Europe 's most dramatic coastline , indulge in legends without recourse to a leprechaun , and on occasions enjoy the trip without bumping into a non-resident . |
| 2 | But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly . |
| 3 | Whilst writing this throughout 1986 , it was clear that the Club had found a new style and confidence , although , just as in 1907 ( and on occasions since ) , the new furnishing is not universally popular . |
| 4 | My cobby mare is very unhappy about being led in and out of her stable and on occasions rushes out of the stable when I open the door . |
| 5 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 6 | These involved being unable to breathe properly , and on occasions even caused her to faint . |
| 7 | Many town corporations resented the rival jurisdiction of ecclesiastical institutions , and on occasions their officers became embroiled in unseemly disputes with the heads of cathedrals and monastic houses ; in 1506 , for example , the sheriff and gaol-keeper of Norwich became involved in a brawl with the prior of the city 's Benedictine cathedral priory , who was seeking to rescue one of his servants recently arrested by municipal officers . |
| 8 | In contrast , local newspapers tend to take cases much less selectively and on occasions will continue to maintain interest in a case which seems unconnected with any other . |
| 9 | In some cases these features were associated with an atmosphere that was unwelcoming and on occasions " oppressive and unstimulating " . |
| 10 | Junior hospital doctors may be on call for extended periods and on occasions have to manage with little or no sleep . |
| 11 | He was often quiet when he had nothing to say , sometimes taciturn and on occasions could be brusque . |
| 12 | And therefore I think this principle of anticipation i is also an equally valid er er principle that we , we should er er look forward in faith to the day when we celebrate , and on occasions we should be able to anticipate that unity . |
| 13 | Between the Col d'Aubisque and the Col du Soul or , six miles further on , the road is a quite dramatic corniche , clinging hard to the southern slope of a deep valley , always close against the rock and on occasions passing through it , in brief tunnels . |
| 14 | There are many groups ( 4000 in Birmingham alone ) and it is difficult to boil all interests down to something called " class " ; on a number of issues ( and at certain levels of the state ) we can discover a pattern of competitive interest-group politics in which no one group appears to be overwhelmingly dominant ; and on occasions the state does simply referee the group struggle and is content to ratify the outcome of the balance of competing forces . |
| 15 | They employed Christian names rather than titles but their turns of phrase for communication with each other , whether written or spoken , were formal in all cases and on occasions orotund . |
| 16 | They are heavily fortified for fear of terrorist attack — and on occasions troops can be flown in and out by helicopter to avoid further risk of confrontation in the lower floors . |
| 17 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 18 | Because er there 's too much , because they did n't like the way things were run , something like that and on occasions we have had to say to people , we 're sorry , we just do n't think you 're the right kind of person for us . |