Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] 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 The Committee says that the draft Directive has missed the opportunity to lay down ‘ a simple , well-defined framework for the protection of personal data and the regulation of personal data processing , applied on a consistent basis ' throughout the EC .
4 He believes the Government has missed the opportunity to pave the way for badly needed investment .
5 One such occasion will be when the adult is brought to hospital unconscious after an accident , and has had no opportunity to signify whether she consents to treatment or not .
6 Mrs Guest has had every opportunity to study the great taste-makers of the century — many were close friends .
7 ‘ This year , ’ explains Mr Aimetti , ‘ the German company has had the opportunity to take advantage of the boom there and made a big profit , so we pay tax in Germany .
8 He has had the opportunity to reproduce 430 of the 500 drawings which originally constituted that collection and to mount a touring exhibition over three years : for the first , and probably only time therefore , they will all be seen together right across the world .
9 The research evidence also suggests that the pupil of average socio-economic status tends to higher achievement in ‘ uncreamed schools ’ , that is schools where high ability pupils are not sent to selective schools , and where the school has had the opportunity to establish itself .
10 With R & D environments , a project may frequently be stopped or transferred to another department before the inventor has had the opportunity to reap the joy that comes from full explorations of their work .
11 Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application .
12 For example , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for St Giles in East London considered that widows must be held in part responsible for their own condition : ‘ After the lapse of a certain number of years , when a widow has had the opportunity of showing providence on her own account , I think you may separate her from her late husband , but not immediately after his death ’ .
13 Will the Lord President of the Council , as a fellow Scot , tell me whether he has had the opportunity to study in depth the implications of the ICM opinion poll ?
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 He has had an opportunity to make his point , and I wish to end with one important point .
19 I will be contacting you again after [ date ] when my client has had an opportunity to consider all indicative offers received .
20 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 .
21 If all parties consent , and the guardian has had an opportunity to make representations , the court may grant the request without a hearing .
22 To illustrate this I will describe in some detail the example of my own school , where the governing body has grasped the opportunity presented by recent legislation to formalise a long-established tradition of teacher involvement in decision-making .
23 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 .
24 It has provided an opportunity to develop many aspects .
25 The Advanced Courses Development Programme has provided the opportunity to consolidate the existing system and simultaneously to introduce certification for individual units .
26 The restoration of the warehouse and the adjoining 457m ( 500yd ) length of canal is viewed with enthusiasm by the Wey and Arun Canal Trust , a society which has worked since the early 1970s for the complete restoration of the Arun Navigation and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal between Pallingham and the River Wey , and which has restored the opportunity for navigation to several stretches of these waterways .
27 Success at Wimbledon would have carried a £150,000 bonus , which Regal were offering for victory in both derbies , but the owner has refused the opportunity .
28 To gauge the effectiveness of the appeal of the plaque , consider that of the ten donors of $500,000 or more , only one has forgone the opportunity to take public credit for their magnanimity ; and of the thirty-one contributors of $100,000 or more , all but six , ( three have underwritten exhibition and outreach programs ) .
29 In his chairman 's statement , Terry Shand explains why the group has taken the opportunity to overhaul the presentation of the annual report and accounts and to include operating and financial reviews .
30 Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ .
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