Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [adj] opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single service with a unified management structure for on-site , off-site and what is currently special school provision would considerably enhance the professional opportunities of its staff and reduce to a minimum the duplication or even rivalry that exists . |
| 2 | For many visitors to the country the stations might present the main opportunity to see apartheid in action . |
| 3 | ‘ Academics get on by publishing papers and TCS by it 's very nature is n't research ; it 's technology transfer and does n't give the same opportunity for publishing … |
| 4 | ‘ Academics get on by publishing papers and TCS by it 's very nature is n't research ; it 's technology transfer and does n't give the same opportunity for publishing … |
| 5 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 6 | We have shown how a good idea and some hard work can provide the ideal opportunity to bring jobseekers and businesses together . |
| 7 | The one-off session on ‘ Music in Worship ’ , offered by several colleges and courses , can hardly provide the same opportunity . |
| 8 | Thoughtful attention to the choice of business visitors to classrooms can helpfully reinforce the equal opportunity aspect of the curriculum by challenging the discriminatory stereotyping of many professions . |
| 9 | The Victorian entrepreneurs did not miss the extraordinary opportunities offered by the business of travel and Cook and his descendants had many rivals who gave them keen competition . |
| 10 | ‘ Operators like Jane 's Aviation will have the best opportunity to develop their business by being based here . ’ |
| 11 | First of all Tracey you can have the first opportunity to show how little you know . |
| 12 | It is a must for those who might have the practical opportunity to use it . |
| 13 | Yes , well this is , this is what the intention of the comprehensive school was in the beginning was to ha , let every child have the same opportunity which I 'm sure they 're getting in the comprehensive school . |
| 14 | It is right and proper that everyone should have the same opportunity , but this can be controlled by one officer in my belief . |
| 15 | I suppose the most recent lesson is that if you merge with a company you do n't have the same opportunities for changing its culture as you do if it 's a take-over . |
| 16 | On the other hand she regrets the collapse of the grant-aided sector because other women like her may not have the same opportunities in the future . |
| 17 | So I did n't have the same opportunities as other young people in the post-war years . |
| 18 | He argues that those born into the lower strata can never have the same opportunities for realizing their talents as those born into the higher strata . |
| 19 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |
| 20 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 21 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 22 | When an azure-winged magpie is fooled into accepting a cuckoo 's eggs , the cuckoo chicks will take the first opportunity to push the magpie 's own eggs out of the nest . |
| 23 | Carole would take the first opportunity to get her on her own and have a word with her in private . |
| 24 | In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it . |
| 25 | If a firm has a good product idea , but is short of capital to expand and exploit the commercial opportunity itself , licensing allows the earning of at least some profit , or more precisely , royalty , without having to commit scarce financial resources . |
| 26 | As four chapters will demonstrate , there are different places to find art criticism ; a monograph will afford the greatest opportunity for full critical treatment , while a brief newspaper article is most likely to omit one or more of the three helpful elements , perhaps through the writer 's assuming prior knowledge on the reader 's part . |
| 27 | Now would seem the ideal opportunity to — ’ |
| 28 | The comparatively high number of transport and particularly railway workers may reflect the increased opportunities for such work in late nineteenth-century Edinburgh ( none of the bridegrooms , belonging to a younger generation , worked on the railways : if in transport they were in more modern motorized jobs like van-driver : see Table 10 below ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Industry can seize the new opportunities , safe in the knowledge the Government will play its full part . |
| 30 | In a special preface to their communiqué the Foreign Ministers extended to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe " the hand of friendship and co-operation " and expressed determination to " seize the historic opportunities resulting from the profound changes in Europe to help build a new peaceful order … based on freedom , justice and democracy " . |