Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time limit for submitting the return may be extended by the inspector if it can be shown , to his satisfaction , that there is a reasonable excuse for the inability to submit by the prescribed deadline . |
| 2 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 3 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 4 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
| 5 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |
| 6 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 7 | Normally , any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer . |
| 8 | The Quality Scotland Foundation also organises an Open Days initiative which gives members the opportunity to learn through the direct experience of others . |
| 9 | Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it . |
| 10 | At present resources are limited , but there are courses and retreats which offer the opportunity to focus on the spiritual and emotional aspects of HIV in the safety of a non-judgmental and totally confidential environment . |
| 11 | Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ? |
| 12 | It aims to provide the boys with a good education , in a caring environment , while giving them the opportunity to train towards the specific goal of reaching the top 50 in the world , as professional tennis players . |
| 13 | They took the opportunity to share in the daily 10 o'clock Mass , a privilege denied them during their working life . |
| 14 | I should very much like the opportunity to discuss with the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends , and other colleagues from Northern Ireland , how we can introduce a strategy for promoting inward investment over a longer time scale than that hitherto adopted . |
| 15 | ‘ All I wanted on behalf of the team was the opportunity to qualify for the European Cup final off the back of our last two Champions League matches , ’ said the manager . |
| 16 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 17 | As an organisation the Trust owes much to the tourist industry and it welcomes the opportunity to work alongside the regional tourist boards and the travel trade . |
| 18 | Hampstead somewhere , he thought , and then he might take the opportunity to slip into the big library at Swiss Cottage … |
| 19 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the many important proposition for future policy and action by CCW contained in this paper . |
| 20 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the proposed revision of MPG6 . |
| 21 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the proposed revision of MPG6 . |
| 22 | In these circumstances those of us who have benefited from the excellence of Somerville and Oxford must surely do what we can to ensure that future generations may also have the opportunity to benefit from the privileged education that we enjoyed . |
| 23 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |
| 24 | Mary took the opportunity to look around the small country fair . |
| 25 | The prime responsibility of the courts was to protect the public against a person who showed a propensity for very disturbing behaviour when he had the opportunity to interfere with the young and defenceless . |
| 26 | We give children the opportunity to develop to the best of their potential . |
| 27 | Children should have the opportunity to compose with scribes , tape recorders and word processors , thus gaining the opportunity to write without the dispiriting failure of knocking impotently against problems of spelling and punctuation . |
| 28 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 29 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 30 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |