Example sentences of "the opportunity [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | BIRKENHEAD 'S Queensway tunnel will be closed for major electrical works this week and Mersey Tunnels staff are taking the opportunity to spruce up the tube . |
2 | The audience was predominantly trade-orientated , but found the opportunity to see how the consumer side of credit operates . |
3 | Amberyarn is a real working mill , you will have the opportunity to see how the yarn is produced in a demonstration of twisting , spinning and winding . |
4 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
5 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
6 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
7 | The advent of satellite T.V. and the commitment of ITV to rugby coverage provides the opportunity to assess how the Australians cope with the challenges of Scotland , New Zealand and South Africa during a very short space of time . |
8 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
9 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
10 | The State has the obligation of ensuring this end by guaranteeing that homosexuals , living as they do in an ‘ abnormal ’ relationship , do not have the opportunity to influence directly the upbringing of children . |
11 | The tour , which ended on Thursday , gave royal journalists the opportunity to scrutinise closely the couple together on 12 occasions within four days . |
12 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
13 | They need to gain confidence and the child needs the opportunity to learn how the parent can establish limits . |
14 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
15 | Whichever route you choose , you have the opportunity to select precisely the style , layout , size , materials and finish you want , maybe even to add on an extension , with a room above the garage , and perhaps a workshop behind . |
16 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |