Example sentences of "at [art] [adj -est] opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abandonment yesterday of unilateral nuclear disarmament ( although not the intention of abandoning Britain 's nuclear deterrent at the earliest opportunity while other countries keep theirs ) was done in the same spirit of moralism which had gone into the banning of the Bomb . |
| 2 | The final twist was that Mr Kinnock was committed to negotiating away nuclear weapons at the earliest opportunity , Mr King added . |
| 3 | Their intention is assessed as being to seize the oil installations at the earliest opportunity . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 5 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 6 | Tony Scivetti , a parent governor who supports Mrs Snelling , said Newham had already spelled out its intention to close the school at the earliest opportunity . |
| 7 | ‘ The most important objective for the next leader of the Labour Party must be to prepare to win power at the earliest opportunity . |
| 8 | In terms of selection theory it makes sense for an incoming male to kill the young , for the females then come into oestrus quickly and he can get his genes into the assembly line at the earliest opportunity . |
| 9 | The schools concerned will ideally seek to educate from an early age with a view to integrating the child into the normal educational system at the earliest opportunity . |
| 10 | The 1989–90 Committee recommended that this should be provided at the earliest opportunity , as an adjunct to the permanent televising of the House . |
| 11 | It should be noted that this type of shelf should be replaced with something more suitable at the earliest opportunity . |
| 12 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 13 | With road proposals , it is vital to object as strongly as possible at the earliest opportunity , even if you are told no route has yet been chosen . |
| 14 | I made a mental note to seek revenge at the earliest opportunity . |
| 15 | Although there may be a great temptation to seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity , you should weigh up considerations such as : |
| 16 | The overriding principle , though , is that consultation must commence at the earliest opportunity . |
| 17 | If you are wrongfully dismissed , you should therefore seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity . |
| 18 | In order to secure the option of a judicial challenge to the Commission 's determinations in such cases , a company would be well advised to complain formally to the Commission at the earliest opportunity , and to participate in the Commission 's investigation , making submissions and offering evidence of the adverse effects on its business of the conduct of which complaint has been made . |
| 19 | C64 board games have something of a chequered history — is this twin pack a ‘ renaissance ’ , the ‘ king ’ of board sims or would you rather ‘ pawn ’ it at the earliest opportunity ? |
| 20 | New legislation to be introduced at the earliest opportunity to put an end to the current need for children to give live evidence and face intimidating cross examination in either open court or by video-link . |
| 21 | Child abuse cases to be given priority to avoid delays and enable therapeutic help to be offered at the earliest opportunity . |
| 22 | Moves by the Government to incorporate the EC directive on money laundering into UK law at the earliest opportunity have received strong support from the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group . |
| 23 | There can be few people in football who do not think Flashman should be turfed out of Barnet at the earliest opportunity . |
| 24 | Capacity may also need careful consideration and you should estimate the net volume of water at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | And after their lengthy and intimate chat , he confided in a naval colleague that ‘ at the earliest opportunity ’ he would visit Janet 's shop in Beauchamp Place around the corner from Harrods . |
| 26 | Replace old foam-filled furniture at the earliest opportunity with furniture labelled to indicate that its covers and filling meet the requirements of the 1988 Furniture and Furnishings ( Fire ) ( Safety ) Regulations . |
| 27 | The Scots ' intervention was motivated almost entirely by religion , the price for their help being a commitment by parliament to introduce a Scottish-style Presbyterian church system into England at the earliest opportunity . |
| 28 | BUCKING the usual trend to paint Spitfires after completion of their flight-test programme , Historic Flying at Audley End , Essex , are refinishing in detail at the earliest opportunity . |
| 29 | I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity . |
| 30 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |