Example sentences of "[art] opportunity [to-vb] [adv prt] " 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 | However , periods of solitude are essential to all ages and may be therapeutic to the elderly , providing the opportunity to reflect on and analyse their lives . |
| 3 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 4 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 5 | You completely the wife actually what erm another good point was that you got in are , are there dependants there were certain close questions again , the fact that the wife smoked a pipe gave you the opportunity to turn round and say well that 's , that 's good , that 's a benefit because she could be classed as a non-smoker there 's just wee er opportunities there and that 's as much as I had if anyone else wants to add to these comments . |
| 6 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 7 | Passera responds solemnly that there had been the opportunity to sell out to AT&T Co at a very good price , and that option had been rejected . |
| 8 | JUNE 16 : Today I visited the Department of Trade and Industry , where I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of The Personal Protective Equipment Directive ( Directive 89/686/EEC ) , which as a every single-market fan will know , cam into force on July 1 , 1992 . |
| 9 | Free tea , coffee and biscuits were on offer and , as well the opportunity to pick up useful leaflets and booklets , visitors could consult stallholders . |
| 10 | did succeed in persuading Croydon Corporation to let them work their tramways on a lease and shortly afterwards , they had the opportunity to take over two new tramway schemes , outside but adjoining Croydon boundaries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 15 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 16 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
| 17 | The opportunity to go over to regain my citizenship was a must because of the pressure I was under . |
| 18 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 19 | and you would n't have the opportunity to go along |
| 20 | It will only be small at the outset for example one might get the opportunity to go in and on or might get the opportunity to go and advise on P R P or something and it 's not suddenly going to result in an invitation er to . |
| 21 | Well that 's why I did it because I do n't often get the opportunity to go out and enjoy myself like that . |
| 22 | Once NT is installed in a NetWare LAN , Microsoft will have the opportunity to point out to users that NetWare ( especially pre-version 4 ) is largely superfluous . ’ |
| 23 | Someone who is working as the only in-house solicitor in a relatively small company , will also probably be a member of the senior management team with a high profile and the opportunity to participate in and influence commercial decisions . |
| 24 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 25 | ‘ The Territorial Army are using the opportunity to carry out an exercise in — ah — conditions where large numbers of civilians are present . |
| 26 | The Henley Research Centre acts as a focus for research at Henley and offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance . |
| 27 | Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance . |
| 28 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 29 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
| 30 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |