Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 2 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 3 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees . |
| 5 | The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error , minor misspellings make no difference . |
| 6 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 7 | AN HOUR to spare on a recent visit to London gave me the opportunity to visit the famous Science Museum 's well-advertised new gallery ‘ Physics and Nuclear Power ’ . |
| 8 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 9 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 10 | The establishment of the West German state in the latter part of 1948 , enabled plans to proceed for a general election there , in August 1949 , resulting , in 139 Christian Democrats ; 131 Social Democrats and 52 Free Democrats being elected , with extreme parties winning very few seats . |
| 11 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 12 | Once again , you have an opportunity to go for a perfect ton , providing you have produced the goods during the first two days play . |
| 13 | The game against the Belgians affords Rangers the opportunity to go through a complete year without losing at home in any competition . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
| 15 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 16 | A delegation from the European Parliament was denied permission to proceed with a planned visit to the area . |
| 17 | I do believe it was n't just inability to cope with a terrible handicap . |
| 18 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 19 | It is interesting that , as the opportunity to paint for a specific exhibition has offered itself , a freer and less tentative approach can be seen both in subject matter and technique . |
| 20 | After becoming estranged from Kim Dae Jung following their inability to agree upon a single candidate to oppose Roh Tae Woo in the 1987 presidential contest , in 1990 he led his opposition party into an amalgamation with Roh 's ruling party to form the DLP . |
| 21 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 22 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 23 | The proclamation will have summoned the Parliament to meet on a specified day and it is up to the victors to turn up on that day at the time prescribed . |
| 24 | All the secondees expected and experienced professional development , which might include intellectual challenge , a gain in experience and an opportunity to work with a wide range of people , establishing nation- or region-wide contacts . |
| 25 | The overall aims of the experience would be specified , including : to give students the opportunity to work in a real production kitchen where the pace , the expectations and the allowed tolerances would be different from a college training kitchen ; to give students the chance to see and use specialist equipment unavailable at college ; to give the students the opportunity to assess their own personal skills , including the ability to cope on their own , away from home . |
| 26 | Conformity to rules relies primarily upon compliance , upon a willingness to work within a regulated framework which Etzioni has suggested rests either upon acceptance of a ‘ utilitarian ’ financial bargain or upon a ‘ normative ’ commitment . |
| 27 | There is a difficult , and unresolved , question about the application of the " fair comment " defence to comment by a third party which is published in a newspaper . |
| 28 | Sails are kept ready rigged , ready for action , and all rigs are interchangeable with all boards — an unrivalled opportunity to try to a wide range of sails with a wide range of boards . |
| 29 | But this interpretation is challenged by the observation that a reminder treatment ( foot-shock administered in a different apparatus from that used to train the avoidance response ) will allow the avoidance response to appear on a subsequent retention test . |
| 30 | I saw the lizard again , darting from her matted hair to hide in a broken fruitbowl . |