Example sentences of "[subord] on occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Local Government Board , which had historically borne most of the responsibility for the treatment of poverty , had played very little part in the new measures of the Liberal government , except on occasion to disrupt them . |
| 2 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 3 | Sometimes he was called upon to take the deer with his own men , hounds and equipment , while on occasion he called upon the forest inhabitants to help him . |
| 4 | The point should not be overemphasized , since on occasion this sense of duty was not so much a cause of action but a post hoc justification of it . |
| 5 | My advice to Nationalist MPs is , whether on occasion they support Liberal Democrat or Tory motions on their merits , they should never vote with Labour , as it is a party fundamentally incapable of sticking to principle . |
| 6 | Her wardrobe was , of course , immediately refurbished when she arrived , and continually added to , though on occasion she did wear ‘ Scottish dress ’ , to the patronizing admiration of the French . |
| 7 | There are also delays — though on occasion I have had Chandos ' Bax and Hyperion 's Simpson discs in my collection before the reviews appear in GRAMOPHONE . |
| 8 | For instance , one could not say that the nervous system had simply slowed down , as on occasion the subjects could produce responses as quickly as they could when rested . |