Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj] occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine of the 28 subjects were found to have been exceeding the speed limit on at least one of the four occasions . |
| 2 | If noise pollution is made a more clearly identifiable criminal offence , this will prove one of the rare occasions on which hard cases have generated a much-needed law . |
| 3 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 4 | It was one of the rare occasions in his life when Sean Walsh spoke without calculation . |
| 5 | On one of the rare occasions Prince Charles came too , he made it obvious he liked Raine . |
| 6 | One of the rare occasions on which they ventured beyond the studio was for Carry On Up The Khyber . |
| 7 | It was one of the rare occasions when her tight-lipped mouth opened into something approaching a smile . |
| 8 | My most pressing experience of Wigg as a tipster was on one of the rare occasions when I went to the Derby . |
| 9 | ONE OF THE few quotable quotes attributed to Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssoen Quisling , uttered with contempt on one of the many occasions when his Norwegian countrymen rejected him , is : ‘ Ibsen knew his people . ’ |
| 10 | That was one of the many occasions when we were sent for after supper and beaten by the Library . |
| 11 | Over the three pairs of tests ( N = 269 ) , 46 pupils would have passed on one of the two occasions had the pass mark been 50 per cent and 54 had it been 70 per cent . |
| 12 | On one of the several occasions that Gary Grugel became aggressive and threatening , he nearly dropped half a paving slab on a victim 's head , Liverpool Crown Court was told . |
| 13 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 14 | It was also one of the few occasions where the singer 's sense of humour was enticed from the shell . |
| 15 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 16 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 17 | The political activity around Clause 28 was one of the few occasions when lesbians and gay men have worked together and successfully expressed their anger . |
| 18 | In fact , there 's a simple explanation for the loopily lopsided emphasis , spelled out by the BBC 's Election 92 editor , Peter Horrocks : ‘ Election night is one of the few occasions when BBC and ITV are in direct competition with the same programming . ’ |
| 19 | This was one of the few occasions when Joan was unable to accompany her half-sister . |
| 20 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |
| 21 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 22 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 23 | ‘ It was one of the few occasions in his life when he tried and failed . |
| 24 | One of the few occasions , it appeared , when Dame Iris had met her match . |
| 25 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 26 | Oh , then I am young again and , for one of the few occasions in my life , deeply in love . |
| 27 | This is one of the few occasions in the House when I can say that many hon. Members on both sides of the House told the Government that that would happen if the Government allowed the policy to develop in the way it has . |
| 28 | It was also , I learned , one of the few occasions anyone at PKB could remember that Patterson had a meeting with his door shut and nobody got fired . |
| 29 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 30 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |