Example sentences of "[prep] [art] occasions " in BNC.

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1 I tried to meet this personal and pastoral need in a four-page leaflet with printed prayers for the occasions mentioned above .
2 Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region .
3 What I am advising is that you consider acquiring some well-proven software ( I can recommend PC-Tools or the Norton Utilities , for instance ) for the occasions when a little home diagnosis is required , and learn how to use it .
4 It is a mistake to regard the falsification of bold , highly falsifiable conjectures as the occasions of significant advance in science .
5 I soon learned to differentiate between the occasions on which I would not be missed , like chapel , and those on which my absence would be obvious , like team games where positions were allotted in advance .
6 We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property .
7 And what about the occasions when a junior does most of the work , leaving the boss to come along and give an expensive twiddle of the hot brush ?
8 And on many of the occasions I had the distinct impression that the girls had dressed up too : one girl wore a big hat , another a beautiful sari in purple and black , another wore DM boots and a big overcoat ; many wore make-up , jewellery and perfume .
9 With grandparents who were visited , quite often the memory is mainly of the occasions when visits took place , or of the setting : of ‘ lovely times ’ staying with grandparents at Christmas , or of playing games — ‘ beggar my neighbour ’ and ‘ old maid ’ with a grandmother , dominoes and stories with a grandfather .
10 Overall , the Conservative Party received more than half the broadcasting time on 56% of the occasions when Members appeared in an item , as opposed to 35% for Labour and 12.6% for the Liberal Democrats .
11 When tested on the data from a further 9 boards , repaired since the initial data was collected , the resulting expert system correctly identified the faulty component on two thirds of the occasions and indicated the correct area on the remaining one third .
12 Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn .
13 Stewart was in charge on two of the occasions when they were reported by the umpires .
14 Achieving this kind of position within the group requires , in addition to being tall , a full knowledge of the entire repertoire of chants and of the occasions on which it is appropriate to use them .
15 When you attend your first lecture — one of the occasions when every student considers note-making to be obligatory — you will , no doubt , feel conscientious .
16 And on most of the occasions when they had been alone together he had n't let a chance slip by .
17 It was discovered that hotel records appeared to confirm the claim by Iranian arms dealer Jamshid Hashemi that he was indeed in Madrid in late July 1988 , one of the occasions upon which he claimed to have met representatives from the Reagan campaign .
18 Table 3.6 shows the comparison for each junction of the occasions on which it was recalled correctly with those on which it was not .
19 , it was almost the energy to manage to do it , a hundred percent of the time and a hundred percent of the occasions that they felt , I think , was a little daunting .
20 Apart from the occasions when bream are preoccupied with full larders of fry , there are times all through the year when they will eat a small fish , just the same as there are times when they will chomp a lobworm .
21 There are good reasons why ethnicity ( whatever it is ) should be politicised in modern multi-ethnic societies , which characteristically take the form of a diaspora of mainly urban ghettoes , combined with a sharp increase in the occasions for friction between ethnic groups .
22 But statistics by themselves were never enough to satisfy the inquiring mind of a man who says : ‘ The measure of greatness in a cricketer is nothing to do with numbers , but is in the occasions which watchers remember with joy — think of McCabe and his three extraordinary innings . ’
23 Questions asked by — refers to the occasions when a member of the class asked the teacher a question directly , either to repeat instructions or to clarify the teaching point .
24 There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters .
25 Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass .
26 I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen .
27 In Nicholson 's case , the description came with the ever-present prefix that on the occasions he has tried acid , it was used properly to avoid bad trips ; thus , he had ‘ come to terms with things that you perceive would be otherwise impossible — things that help you understand yourself … plus , if used properly , it can means quite a lot of kicks . ’
28 On the occasions I have played this course as the guest of a member , I have never had to queue to start play , and have rarely even seen other players on the course .
29 I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her .
30 I found it personally difficult to justify the cost to my society of attending these occasions in times of recession , and I would have dearly loved to have had the support of my spouse on the occasions when I did go .
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