Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six month run there will be costly for Jenny , who had to sacrifice the opportunity of a starring role in a film to stay with the play . |
| 2 | Completed questionnaires from participating staff showed that they had welcomed the training , had greatly benefited from it , and had enjoyed the opportunity to discuss problems with staff from other Boroughs . |
| 3 | Waugh had seen the opportunities of the conte almost twenty years earlier than Orwell ; but he had exhausted his interest before war broke out in 1939 , so that Brideshead and the Sword of Honour trilogy are firmly planted in a revived realistic tradition . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Peter felt he had missed an opportunity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Boro manager Lennie Lawrence was disappointed that his side had missed the opportunity to move into an automatic promotion place . |
| 10 | Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them . |
| 11 | George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom . |
| 12 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 13 | The first that Winchester knew of the decision in regard to which they had had no opportunity to make any prior representations , was when the copy announced itself upon their fax machine on 31 October . |
| 14 | Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro . |
| 15 | Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro . |
| 16 | They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance . |
| 17 | On the facts of the case the rules of natural justice had been broken because the constable had had no opportunity to comment upon the allegations made against him . |
| 18 | If he d had a paper and a pencil he might have continued his epic composition , or drawn sketches , but he had had no opportunity in this strange land . |
| 19 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 20 | Apparently all of the husbands — or , in the case of Miss Pinkney , her father — had had the opportunity . |
| 21 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 22 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 23 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 24 | He had had an opportunity of assessing Miss Havisham 's feelings on the subject , not that these were hard to predict . |
| 25 | Rose , he knew , had had an opportunity — her dog-walking provided her with that . |
| 26 | We have pleased to reserve this hearing until we had had an opportunity of acquainting ourselves with all the circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 28 | Sir Thomas Gray of Heton said that the peace was not in accordance with the king 's will and that the queen and Mortimer had used the opportunity of the king 's minority to arrange the whole thing . |
| 29 | The government for its part claimed that the Tigers had been guilty of over 30 breaches ; reports also indicated that they had used the opportunity to build new fortifications near government military bases in the north Jaffna area and near the Elephant Pass ( linking the Jaffna Peninsula with the rest of the country ) . |
| 30 | As was mentioned earlier , they enjoyed filling out psychological tests and had requested the opportunity to fill out an IQ test . |