Example sentences of "occasion of [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently New Scientist was given the opportunity to interview Ruby , on the occasion of her first visit to the British Museum ( Natural History ) . |
| 2 | EATON class members presented with flowers and a garden token to celebrate the occasion of her 80th birthday . |
| 3 | I am delighted to be able to express my congratulations to the Society on the occasion of its 40th anniversary celebrations . |
| 4 | But on the occasion of its fortieth birthday two years ago , Herbert Read 's founding description of the ICA as an ‘ adult play-centre … a source of vitality and daring experiment ’ was leapt upon even by the quality press as the founding weakness in its independent constitution . |
| 5 | On the occasion of its 30th anniversary , the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia awarded him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science ; and this month at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science he is to receive an Honorary DSc from the University of Wales . |
| 6 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 7 | Graham has been with the company for 25 years and to mark the occasion of his first quarter century achievement , an inscribed watch was presented to him by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive of Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 8 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 9 | For himself , however , as he wrote on the occasion of his 86th birthday in a poem published as ‘ He never expected much ’ , |
| 10 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 11 | There was considerable speculation ( allegedly stemming from Chinese official sources ) that Kim would use the occasion of his 78th birthday ( on April 15 ) to complete the long-anticipated handover of power to his son , Kim Jong Il , the 48-year-old " Dear Leader " . |
| 12 | I will perhaps call it a constipation in glass , wrote Harsnet , not a delay in glass , but an advance , he wrote , on my last readymade , the hard stool , my present to Goldberg on the occasion of his third wedding . |
| 13 | The book opens with a dedication by F. A. Cotton to ‘ The Colonel ’ , Nobel prizewinner Bill Lipscomb , ‘ on ( or about ) the occasion of his seventieth university ’ . |
| 14 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 15 | I HAVE JUST celebrated , or , rather , I have just had drawn to my attention , the occasion of my 64th birthday . |