Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
| 2 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 3 | Edward I was asked to resolve the disputed succession and used the opportunity to assume control of Scotland , its revenues and administration . |
| 4 | The club raised over £100.00 for the Orsett Hospital Fund and provided the opportunity for many visitors to the fair to try their hands at using a metal detector for the first time . |
| 5 | One of the reasons why Colnaghi 's wanted a presence in Paris and welcomed the opportunity to be at the Hotel Bristol is the attraction which Paris holds to the Japanese ; furthermore , a high occupancy rate at the Hotel Bristol is Japanese and I look forward to being able to meet this clientele . |
| 6 | In the Department of Trade and Industry case , reported above , junior staff were short of money and welcomed the opportunity to earn more through overtime . |
| 7 | Then , touched by a strange panic , she took a deep breath and grabbed the opportunity to change the subject . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 9 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 10 | I recently visited my relatives in Morecambe and took the opportunity to do some fell walking in the Lakes . |
| 11 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I wish he did have cause to be jealous of me , ’ I said , and took the opportunity to draw her towards me and fold my arms around her . |
| 13 | In May , just before VE Day , he travelled to Paris in order to lecture on " The Social Function of Poetry " and took the opportunity to bring small presents of soap , China tea , and other commodities to old friends there like Sylvia Beach . |
| 14 | I am on a , ’ her pause was not due to a transmission fault , ‘ fact-finding tour of the outlying regions , and took the opportunity to contact you directly . |
| 15 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 16 | Nelson Mandela was one of the guests of honour , and took the opportunity of meeting Shevardnadze as well as US Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 17 | Last year I visited Cape Town and took the opportunity to visit the Dam . |
| 18 | ‘ Yesterday you were a very Good Samaritan , ’ she smiled , and took the opportunity , while he seemed halfway friendly , to enquire , ‘ I do n't suppose it would be convenient for me to interview you now , Mr Gajdusek , would it ? ’ |
| 19 | Of the 17 other clerks of works , several were close to retirement age and took the opportunity to retire early ; others were given severance terms . |
| 20 | They were shown videos of past plays performed in the department and offered the opportunity to watch Soviet television or the latest satellite language learning materials . |
| 21 | It compounded what had been learnt , and gave the opportunity to learn new skills through five different types of dive . |
| 22 | After the completion of his second term as governor in 1975 , he was unemployed and had the opportunity to trail back and forth across the country making contact with local and state party leaders , raising financial support and fashioning a personal organization . |
| 23 | Representatives of colleges met the NDO and SCOTVEC staff and had the opportunity to raise issues with the unit writers . |
| 24 | There was Ling 's list to be purchased from the wholesale stores … alterations to the house to be considered … an architect to pin down while I was in town and had the opportunity to do so — ’ |
| 25 | When Christine Osborne travelled 4,348 kilometers across Australia on the Indian-Pacific she met some down-to-earth characters and had the opportunity to see some of the country 's most remote mining centres . |
| 26 | At least I had my say in it , and had the opportunity to put something in . |
| 27 | Canon Wheeler was impervious to the gentleness but grasped the opportunity . |
| 28 | The audience was predominantly trade-orientated , but found the opportunity to see how the consumer side of credit operates . |