Example sentences of "have [verb] on [adj] occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Working Party has met on several occasions and a research project is under way to provide all relevant background information . |
| 2 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 3 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said on many occasions in the House , the Department is more than happy to receive representations from the hon. Gentleman or anyone else about specific cases of blacklisting . |
| 4 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
| 5 | The forced reference reset can occur at this level , and has done on numerous occasions . |
| 6 | Her appearances have been singular for the genuine interest she has shown on all occasions and have been made with the avowed object of giving encouragement and , if possible raising money . |
| 7 | I do n't wonder whether it would be helpful just step back a bit and just look at the county council 's view as to how it should treat migration in the light of what the Secretary of State has approved on two occasions , when this issue has come up . |
| 8 | The Minister has promised on several occasions to ensure that the matter is cleared up . |
| 9 | Where do we shrug off the " I will if you will " tale of correlation and reach an actual decision about what has occurred on this occasion ? |
| 10 | And what of John Deacon , for whom Neil has deputised on recent occasions ? |
| 11 | But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down . |
| 12 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 13 | It has led on repeated occasions to a sense of being hemmed in , of which the doctrine of Lebensraum was the most extreme example . |
| 14 | I am sure that the House will bear with me for one or two minutes while I explain what has happened on this occasion . |
| 15 | Yesterday the Torbay coroner said 14 out of 32 suicides this year had recently been released from the unit , which he has criticised on several occasions since it replaced more secure psychiatric hospitals that have been closed by the area health authority . |
| 16 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 17 | The gridded diagrams show very clearly that an Edwardian cyclist , lacking the eighteen gears of a modern mountain-bike , would have had to dismount on several occasions along the Earsdon Mill ( West Linkhall section of the route ) . |
| 18 | Relative to the other opportunities that I have had to speak on such occasions , however , this is a lower grade privilege because the Bill has been extremely boring . |
| 19 | It 's a little surprising , then , that similar phenomena had not been recognized prior to 1902 , since they must have occurred on numerous occasions in the past . |
| 20 | The result was a bitter disappointment for Wimbledon who could have scored on three occasions in the first half . |
| 21 | It may have happened on several occasions over hundreds , perhaps thousands of years . ’ |
| 22 | Having complained on several occasions of the Church 's reticence over taking the moral lead , on this occasion her plea was successful . |
| 23 | To have intervened on either occasion might well have started a Third World War , and each time Dulles withdrew from the brink . |
| 24 | Chair can I make a suggestion quite clearly a large number of people have made some very good and valid recommendations or suggestions to you and the board this evening and you 've said on many occasions this evening the board will obviously go away discuss those and take a view on the particular ideas . |
| 25 | What the pope had decided on one occasion would be applicable in a similar instance . |
| 26 | I 've I 've I 've phoned on numerous occasions . |
| 27 | Vang Pao had earlier told the Bangkok Post newspaper of the formation of a " revolutionary government of Laos " which had established itself in Laos and which he had visited on certain occasions . |
| 28 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 29 | He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion . |
| 30 | It had happened on rare occasions in the past . |