Example sentences of "[adv] have [art] opportunity " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Everyone living or working in the area will not only have the opportunity to say what improvements they want but will also be able to participate in planning discussions ’ .
2 The photographer only had the opportunity to do it because it was a benefit and he had access to the models that he would n't normally have .
3 so had the opportunity of having a chat with her .
4 Thanks be to God that we now perhaps have the opportunity of diverting our resources from the piling up of armaments which threaten our planet 's existence , to tackling the profound injustices and deprivations of the north/south divide .
5 CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily :
6 Those members of the public who have not had an opportunity to experience contact with the mentally handicapped except in the most superficial way inevitably draw their opinions from the concepts portrayed in the mass media and , above all , from what they see on television .
7 He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun .
8 Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note .
9 The others have not had an opportunity of , of actually seeing this , so I wonder if I could ask you just to read it out and we can all share
10 ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’
11 Mary had lost both parents , her husband and two children within the space of ten years , and had not had the opportunity to acknowledge any of the effect this had on her .
12 When we mix up strange horses in this way , it is not surprising that some should display aggression , as the horses have not had the opportunity to work out their social positions in relation to each other .
13 Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ .
14 About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity :
15 When something goes wrong , the slogan ‘ Have machine , will travel ’ has a depressing ring of truth , especially disastrous in the winter season , since it is no good excavating a channel in midwinter if the ecologists working with the engineers on a scheme have not had the opportunity during the previous summer growing season to identify the existing aquatic habitat affected .
16 Ironically the Second World War enabled many people who had not had the opportunity to travel to see something of other countries .
17 To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades .
18 And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’
19 The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination .
20 In addition , I have not had the opportunity to read ’ Erskine May ’ during the debate , as I was listening attentively to contributors .
21 This , of course , may be the proverbial ‘ chicken and the egg situation ’ , in that historians in this country have not had the opportunity to use such electronic text sources , and have therefore failed to address the issues involved .
22 President of Powers Bashforth , the company behind the kit , Harry Powers , has already had the opportunity to appreciate the availability of an extra engine on the aircraft .
23 His success could thus be explicitly attributed to that capacity for influence which British administrators had always claimed to possess , but had not normally had the opportunity of conclusively demonstrating .
24 ‘ You have scarcely had an opportunity , ma'am , ’ Theda answered with automatic politeness , ‘ what with the wedding and the bereavement in this house . ’
25 There is hardly an occasion on which the government proposes when the opposition does not have an opportunity to oppose .
26 I did not have an opportunity to see any meals being served whilst I was there so I can not be sure of either the quality or quantity .
27 These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting .
28 The Chinese , many of whom have friends in Hong Kong , do not have the opportunity to prove they are genuine refugees by taking part in a screening process .
29 However , most people do not have the opportunity to obtain adequate vitamin D from this source .
30 Because of the big change in her life and all the different aspects of her new home and marriage , she did not have the opportunity to grieve her mother 's death .
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