Example sentences of "[adj] occasions [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 2 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 3 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 4 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 5 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 6 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 7 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 8 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 9 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 10 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 11 | There was little enough fun in her life ; she had no friends , she rarely left the house and on the few occasions she did , it was never on her own and her only contacts were with her mother , the tutors , some of the servants and Patrick . |
| 12 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 13 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 14 | On some occasions they made a response if the word and picture name sounded similar ; otherwise they decided whether the two stimuli were related in meaning . |
| 15 | In the majority of cases fixed costs will be irrelevant in decision-making , but on some occasions they may be relevant . |
| 16 | This meant that on some occasions they would be conducted by Busacher , on others by Anton , the old répétiteur , and in emergencies by their own lead violinist . |
| 17 | So a supervisor appears at random , on some occasions they get tokens , some occasions they do n't . |
| 18 | So a supervisor appears at random , on some occasions they get tokens , some occasions they do n't . |
| 19 | Being a historical review , I shall deal primarily with facts ; however , on some occasions I shall be expressing opinions and I must make it clear from the beginning that these are my own personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the MOD . |
| 20 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 21 | Internally , it was a different matter where ultra-nationalist rivals and critics of even temporary accommodation with the French , as well as those who were suspected of favouring them , were being liquidated in purges which were probably as bloody as most in Eastern Europe and on some occasions it seems the former were killed as a result of Franco-Vietminh collaboration . |
| 22 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 23 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |
| 24 | For the question is , how can he be sure that in observing two similar individuals on two different occasions he is in fact observing the same pair ? |
| 25 | Ontological existents are a sub-species of possible topics of discourse , and any topic of discourse , qua topic of discourse , is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " ; with " A " being a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 26 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 27 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 28 | Beginning with ‘ La Turquie ’ in L'Europe galante , in which he set out to portray ‘ as far as was possible on the stage … the passionate nature of Sultanas ’ , he associated E major with the emotion of jealousy on four of the six occasions he employed it . |
| 29 | Not that day or on any of the countless occasions I resolved to , because I was sharing my house with Francis again . |
| 30 | On such occasions we might be tempted to write{ x : P(x) } where P is a property characterising those and only those elements of the set in question , P(a) indicating that the object a has property P and hence lies in the set . |