Example sentences of "on [adj] occasion [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 2 | For example , an individual might go to bed later than usual on one occasion because a piece of work or some leisure time activity took longer than normal . |
| 3 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 4 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 5 | But in Belfast , quite sharp style-shifting in a formal direction was noted on one occasion when a young man addressed an older male researcher , after speaking to a woman . |