Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] the opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR Richard Stott , editor of the Daily Mirror , is to take charge of the People and will be given the opportunity to lead a management buy-out of the Sunday paper , its publisher , Mr Robert Maxwell said yesterday . |
| 2 | Mr Richard Stott , editor of the Daily Mirror , is to take charge of the People and will be given the opportunity to lead a management buy-out of the Sunday paper . |
| 3 | Parliament will be given the opportunity to consider this issue again . |
| 4 | Mentally handicapped children should be given the opportunity of mixing with other children from an early age . |
| 5 | The children should be given the opportunity to mix with handicapped people , and encouraged to participate in voluntary activities , helping in homes and at social clubs for the handicapped . |
| 6 | 15.29 Pupils should be given the opportunity to develop the ability to : |
| 7 | 15.33 Pupils working towards level 4 should , where possible , be given the opportunity to work in single sex and mixed groups of various size , with and without direct teacher supervision . |
| 8 | He believes that older people should be given the opportunity to participate in civic activities during retirement and argues for : |
| 9 | He now asked Manners why the first and second prize-winners in the competition had been passed over and Scott appointed , and requested that MPs should be given the opportunity to see all three designs displayed together before any further steps |
| 10 | Students who show evidence of sufficient merit may on completion of the course and at the discretion of the Course Committee be given the opportunity of transferring to the second year of an appropriate degree programme within the Faculty . |
| 11 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |
| 12 | These are some of the reasons why we recommend that all children should be given the opportunity to gain pleasure and critical awareness from the study of pre-twentieth-century English literature . |
| 13 | Pupils should be given the opportunity to write in a wide range of forms : diaries , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , play-scripts , TV or film-scripts . |
| 14 | They should also be given the opportunity to encounter types of writing drawn from a variety of other genres — such as letters , biographies , autobiographies , diaries , film or TV scripts , travel books and other non-fictional literature . |
| 15 | ‘ He is not in good health , and he asks only that his nephew , Nathan , who is sixteen , shall be given the opportunity to work with the firm , starting at the lowest rung of the ladder , to learn the publishing business thoroughly . |
| 16 | The five spent on the line is to enable them to have three photographic run-pasts where passengers will be given the opportunity to disembark , stand clear of the track and photograph the train at some remote and picturesque location . |
| 17 | Children must be given the opportunity to talk through their ideas before they are expected to write them down . |
| 18 | An appeal following refusal of a minerals application usually results in a public inquiry , conducted by a planning inspector , in order that all individuals or organisations with a genuine interest may be given the opportunity of presenting their case . |
| 19 | Thus , for example , the way in which it is proposed to structure the rules regulating take-over bids simply reflects a judgment about how far acquiring companies should , through the mechanism of the take-over bid , be given the opportunity of dislodging the managers of the target company — a judgment which can not be justified simply by appealing to the ideal of a free market . |
| 20 | The National Cricket Association received £350,000 to provide non-turf pitches ‘ in areas where schoolchildren should be given the opportunity to learn the game on good surfaces ’ , while among grants to some 50 other cricket organisations were sums of £90,000 for Irthlingborough CC , £26,000 for Shanklin CC and £20,000 for Halstead CC . |
| 21 | If thrown from his horse he would not be given the opportunity to remount . |
| 22 | She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution . |
| 23 | There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice . |
| 24 | Additionally , they do have continuity of employment and can be given the opportunity to do extra hours whenever possible . |
| 25 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 26 | Mr. Collins said that any person whose interest are directly affected by a decision of a body acting in the public domain must ordinarily be given the opportunity of knowing what is alleged against him and of making representations to the decision taker . |
| 27 | The submissions made by Mr. Collins for Winchester on this issue can be summarised as follows : ( i ) in exercising its functions as a recognised S.R.O. , Lautro was under a duty to act in accordance with the rules of natural justice : to act fairly in the circumstances ; ( ii ) that duty was owed not merely to Lautro 's member , Norwich Union , but to persons or bodies who would be prejudicially affected by its decisions , in particular to those whose earnings or profits would be affected ; ( iii ) fairness required that a body in the position of Winchester should be notified that Lautro was considering issuing an intervention notice , and be given the opportunity to make representations before the decision to issue the intervention notice . |
| 28 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 30 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |