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Example sentences for "takes occasion"

  • Here again he takes occasion to combat the atomic theory of the MuÊ¿tazila and Democritus, and proves that a line is not composed of points.

  • In the course of this discussion he takes occasion to define pain and pleasure, the nature of species, the difference between element and principle.

  • The Archdeacon, however, after quoting Sir William Hamilton as to the inconceivability of space as absolute or infinite, takes occasion to say that "space is an entity.

  • Coming to the Uterus of these Fishes, he takes occasion to examine, with what ground several famous Naturalists and Anatomists have affirm'd, that Eggs are the uterus exposed or ejected out of the body of the Animal.

  • He takes occasion to justify his poem, by hinting its excellences in general, and paying a few modest compliments to himself, of which we shall transcribe the following lines.

  • In a work of Milton's called Icon Oclastes, or the Image broken, he takes occasion to charge the king with borrowing a prayer from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and placing it in his Meditations without acknowledging the favour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bed and; delirium tremens; each line; evident from; fade away; heard tell; infinitely more; kill herself; more cards; nisi prius; other grounds; pope from; prose writers; small compass; stood listening; strong smell; takes away; takes its name from; takes notice; takes occasion; takes part; takes place; takes possession; takes the; water vapour; will admit