Example sentences of "a [adj] opportunity [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again the Democratic party may have thrown away a historic opportunity to retake the White House . |
| 2 | In his speech to the Polish parliament he said that the changes in Eastern Europe provided a historic opportunity to build a Europe made up of independent democratic states , not divided into blocs and relying on the protection of superpowers . |
| 3 | For experienced student management system users there is a rich opportunity to develop personal computing . |
| 4 | There are issues of database design , indexing and retrieval to be resolved in this area but by whatever technology , bespoke electronic archiving is already close to a practical reality for libraries offering a rich opportunity to build major archives of various kinds of multimedia data . |
| 5 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 6 | Late in September , the DTI Licensing Unit was given a heaven-sent opportunity to act . |
| 7 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 8 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 9 | Now that Grundig has priced its own recorders at dumping levels , however , the Japanese have been given a heaven-sent opportunity to welch on their promises to the EEC . |
| 10 | On the Monday , after making one mistake by phoning the Evening Standard — and I can sympathize with your reasons for that mistake ; after all , it was a heaven-sent opportunity to assert your father 's continued existence — anyway , after that you get a train back to London … |
| 11 | Their challenge , in common with three other teams of course members , was to propose a specific opportunity to reduce working capital . |
| 12 | He had a gilt-edged opportunity to beat Stephen Hendry , so far the man of the season with four first prizes , in the Stormseal UK Open at Preston , but missed a simple pink when leading 22-0 in the deciding frame and did not have another shot . |
| 13 | He had a gilt-edged opportunity to beat Stephen Hendry , so far the man of the season with four first prizes , in the Stormseal UK Open at Preston , but missed a simple pink when leading 22-0 in the deciding frame and did not have another shot . |
| 14 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 15 | The Directive also provides that contracts must be drafted in " plain intelligible language , the consumer should be given a proper opportunity to examine all the terms " , and any ambiguities in drafting should be interpreted in favour of the consumer . |
| 16 | The member must be clearly informed what the charges against him are , including the facts on which the charges are based , and given a proper opportunity to answer them . |
| 17 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
| 18 | Additionally , Rule 5 — 30(2) requires that in respect of a warrant or derivative , before a firm : ( a ) recommends a transaction ; ( b ) arranges or executes a transaction ( even if it has not recommended it ) ; or ( c ) acts as a discretionary manager ; it must have sent the private customer a Warrants or Derivatives Risk Warning Notice and obtained a copy signed by the customer so that the firm is satisfied that the customer has had a proper opportunity to consider its terms . |
| 19 | The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning . |
| 20 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 21 | A second aspect of growth we discovered was that in joining a church planting team there is a fresh opportunity to discover the joy of adopting some of the lifestyle to which Jesus called us . |
| 22 | This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the PRS of your dreams . |
| 23 | He had stopped thinking lewd thoughts ; his mind was concentrated on what might be a perfect opportunity to obey Viktor Rakovsky 's order . |
| 24 | MARY BAILEY gets many queries about albino Oscars , which gives her a perfect opportunity to talk about the other colour mutations that can occur — and why such fish rarely survive in the wild … |
| 25 | Sir : It would appear that the Prime Minster is overlooking a perfect opportunity to put her theories into practice — why not assign the security arrangements at Downing Street to a private security firm ? |
| 26 | The force of the block sends the attacker spinning around , and frequently he ends up with his back to the defender , thus presenting the defender with a perfect opportunity to deliver a counter-strike to the kidneys , a vulnerable area unprotected by bone . |
| 27 | It 's a perfect opportunity to have a swim . ’ |
| 28 | A visit to West Dorset also offers a perfect opportunity to try your hand at windsurfing . |
| 29 | When Mitchell nabs a Mafia gangster and cop killer the district attorney 's office sees it as a perfect opportunity to exercise the death penalty . |
| 30 | It seemed a perfect opportunity to satisfy the twin hungers of record company and fans alike . |