Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other . |
| 2 | The evening also gave Keith Jones , Manager , Personal Banking at Sheffield Church Street Branch , the opportunity to exhibit his Russian skills whilst conversing with the non-English speaking party member and also when rounding off the evening with a traditional toast in Russian . |
| 3 | Having been dormant for a while they are looking for funds to give Britain 's young people the opportunity to realise their full skiing potential . |
| 4 | However , brighter times are ahead , when you will get the opportunity to realise your full potential . |
| 5 | The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence . |
| 6 | But the Travelling Workshops Experiment report went on to say that : ‘ … although the new approach was welcomed , few librarians actually took advantage of the opportunity to evaluate their user-education programmes by using the evaluation materials provided by the TWE as part of each package ’ . |
| 7 | People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’ |
| 8 | In doing so they would deny Mr Ashdown the opportunity to take his painful decision . |
| 9 | Golf enthusiasts will have the opportunity to plan their entire year on the new Golfer 's 1990 Year Planner which is being launched this autumn . |
| 10 | If all input owners have a say in all decisions , decision-making is a costly process : the greater the number of decision-makers , the more resources are used up in sending out the information needed to make the decision ; and the more time is needed , in total , to give each person the opportunity to argue his preferred solution to any problem . |
| 11 | Finally , a newsletter , Studio News is issued on subscription to members , so that the wheels of communication are kept well-oiled , and not members miss out on the opportunity to seem their favourite demonstrator in action ! |
| 12 | Finally , if you will be arriving ahead of the removal lorry , use the opportunity to give your new home a thorough clean . |
| 13 | John and Mary , his second American film , did not satisfy his love of action , nor did it provide him with the opportunity to demonstrate his fine sense of place . |
| 14 | Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play . |
| 15 | Not only do the Opposition always seek to make the worst of the figures , but they would make the figures very much worse if they ever had the opportunity to put their disastrous policies into effect . |
| 16 | The response from the people he talks to gives him a grassroots view of the questions being asked throughout the Company , while the meetings give the staff the opportunity to put their own points to him straight from the shoulder . |
| 17 | We want to give them the opportunity to put their own language into practice in a genuine effort to communicate . |
| 18 | Last week a party of Dublin deaf were in Belfast and I had the opportunity to put my new skills into use . |
| 19 | ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word . |
| 20 | It was a nice bit of play by Deane which gave Speed the opportunity to translate our complete domination into material advantage . |
| 21 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
| 22 | It was n't worth going back to Edinburgh ( after the graduation ceremony ) so we took the opportunity to visit our old friends the Kembles , who live in South Croydon , which is only a mega traffic jam 's throw from Gatwick . |
| 23 | Scott , who joined the building society in January from the Midland Bank , intends to launch a savings product which he says ‘ will give customers the opportunity to mix their own savings product . |
| 24 | But Middlesbrough and the North-East is not an area that appeals to the London-based agent , despite the opportunity to expand its regional representation . |
| 25 | The Latvian Church now has the opportunity to produce its own newspaper , educational material and theological literature . |
| 26 | ‘ But you were right when you insisted that I must give myself the opportunity to learn my true feelings , although … ’ |
| 27 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 28 | He did not mention the future of Saddam Hussein , but did take the opportunity to restate his earlier assertion that the war had not been conducted against the Iraqi people as a whole . |
| 29 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 30 | The equity partners will usually want to give their junior colleagues and associates the opportunity to prove their ultimate worth to the firm and that can only be done by giving them direct experience of management . |