Example sentences of "have [vb pp] an opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of the Single European Market has presented an opportunity to streamline these activities . |
| 2 | As the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) said , the Bill has missed an opportunity by not allowing the customer to know more about the quality of services . |
| 3 | These are usually temporary measures which can be obtained quite swiftly and will involve the court directing the developer not to carry out the development until the court has had an opportunity to consider the dispute in detail . |
| 4 | One assumes from this that there should be no repeat of the Investment Business Regulations debacle but , until such time as the Institute has had an opportunity to demonstrate that it can resist the temptation to create any further unnecessary bureaucracy , members are likely to be justifiably sceptical . |
| 5 | Lautro should reconsider its practice of issuing a press notice and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had an opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded , to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board has ruled in the application ( post , pp. 581F–G , 582A ) . |
| 6 | I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has had an opportunity to get a copy of the environmental impact assessment from the Vote Office and to read it . |
| 7 | He has had an opportunity to make his point , and I wish to end with one important point . |
| 8 | I will be contacting you again after [ date ] when my client has had an opportunity to consider all indicative offers received . |
| 9 | Worksheets could be distributed in the second half of the visit , once the group has had an opportunity to explore and react to the site . |
| 10 | If all parties consent , and the guardian has had an opportunity to make representations , the court may grant the request without a hearing . |
| 11 | The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures . |
| 12 | It has provided an opportunity to develop many aspects . |
| 13 | Having given an opportunity to the parties to be heard , the master or district judge will be able to make an ‘ unless ’ order to the effect that the case be struck out unless particular steps are taken within a particular time , or will be able to set the case down for trial . |
| 14 | So I also want to thank you very deeply from the innermost parts of my heart , for having given an opportunity for some of us to work in Britain to have accepted us and worked with us to build the solidarity movement that brought the apartheid regime to its knees . |
| 15 | The unions might have seen an opportunity , trustees might have been appointed … ’ |
| 16 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 17 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 18 | And if there were a proposal to establish a funding council , that would best be done in the context of the further education colleges having acquired self-governing status , having found their feet and having had an opportunity to discuss the respective roles of the funding council and of the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | They will have had an opportunity to become familiar with NACAB 's anti-racist and equal opportunities policies , as well as expectations in terms of time commitment , standards expected and training requirements . |
| 20 | It is on behalf of the latter that we should have had an opportunity of voting in Committee , which we were denied , and that we should have an opportunity tonight to vote in the House . |
| 21 | If he 'd met someone and wanted to be unfaithful , he would have found an opportunity and I could n't have stopped him . |
| 22 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | The real crime of the USSR is to have spoiled an opportunity for the whole world , they have so discredited socialism . ’ |
| 24 | Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth . |
| 25 | They had seen an opportunity in the submersible pumps market that could bring enormous benefits to the oil industry in terms of cost , time and safety . |
| 26 | Peter felt he had missed an opportunity . |
| 27 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 28 | She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’ |
| 29 | And the quality systems will help us to monitor and identify where things are going wrong and once we know what is going wrong , we 've got an opportunity to put it right . |
| 30 | You 've got an opportunity now because he 's just been appointed to make contact with him , you do n't need any other excuse to make contact with him |