Example sentences of "opportunity for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well now it was largely , I think as a result of all that that three years later , now that was in nineteen twenty seven towards the latter of nineteen twenty seven , there was an opportunity for a detective to be appointed on a series of promotions . |
| 2 | Though the fee was ini-tially too high , the opportunity for a swap deal came up when scrum half Bobby Goulding became available at Headingley last month . |
| 3 | There is also an opportunity for a CASE studentship , leading to a PhD in work associated with this project . |
| 4 | Coordinators of the WCY , at the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ) , see the year as ‘ an opportunity for a quantum leap in the development of a complete world communications network , which will leave no one isolated from his local , national or international community . ’ |
| 5 | The way ahead , although short , was steep , with no opportunity for a rest . |
| 6 | Our arrival was just in time to take off again , so that I had no opportunity for a rest , a meal or anything else . |
| 7 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 8 | And so Katherine learned that it was better not to provide an opportunity for a row . |
| 9 | The National Curriculum offers an opportunity for a school to engage in critical thinking about practice . |
| 10 | Staff groups may be short-term or long-term , or a mixture of both , with a core of long-term members working with short-term participants who join for an agreed number of sessions in turn — this particular structure affords a good opportunity for a school to build up a core of its own consultant teachers . |
| 11 | This was the last opportunity for a dress rehearsal in the New York Preview theatre . |
| 12 | When it was suggested to them as a possibility it was understood by them as an opportunity for a breathing space in the absence of any other alternative . |
| 13 | Biometrics is a key contributor to their success , and recognition of this has led to an opportunity for a Statistician to complete a team of three . |
| 14 | The Polytechnic staff development policy requires that each lecturer shall have an annual opportunity for a development interview with a Head of Department . |
| 15 | Stonily as he said this , it could only give the CO another opportunity for a barb . |
| 16 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
| 17 | The election of a new President offered the opportunity for a review of American policy in South-East Asia . |
| 18 | From women 's point of view , changes in the occupational structure which gave young women in the twentieth century more opportunity for a career also reduced the need to marry out of pure economic necessity , which in turn increased the importance of companionship within marriage . |
| 19 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 20 | These ranged from an increase in severance compensation to almost £20,000 , an offer of secondment to industry on full salary , an opportunity for a search across the university for posts at senior lecturer level , and an offer of meeting the full cost of training for an alternative career . |
| 21 | For Baxter and George Kinnell it was an opportunity for a spot of transatlantic trouble and on arrival at their luxury hotel , the cousins ordered huge quantities of drink to be brought from a local liquor store . |
| 22 | Then seek an opportunity for a meeting . |
| 23 | Thus the reader of a ‘ good ’ book has the opportunity for a quality of understanding shared with the viewer of a particularly sensitive theatre or television play , or a cinema film . |
| 24 | The weather convinces these men to take the opportunity for a walk around the area of the war-damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , which is preserved as a constant reminder of the past . |
| 25 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 26 | A growing number of the University 's courses provide an opportunity for a period of study in another country of the European Community . |
| 27 | Mini-Enterprise is an opportunity for a group of young people to come together and make a product for sale , or market a service . |
| 28 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 29 | This interweaving of pre-Christian , reformation and contemporary religions gives Lewis its unique flavour and an opportunity for a lot of us to take stock of all that is slowly being eroded in our own cultures . |
| 30 | They lived together and even multiplied , though the opportunity for a doctor to hurry over the gangplank with a black bag , and , in his turn , fall into the river , had been missed . |