Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the volume was first published it appeared only as an expensive hardback and the opportunity for exploring an important range of writing was restricted to specialists and students willing to pass around a library copy . |
| 2 | In the absence of Ken Davies ( who had succeeded John Darbyshire as Managing Director in 1985 , and is now living in England ) he expressed the hope that at some future date we might have the opportunity of planting a third tree ! |
| 3 | The Ukraine 's first ‘ modern ’ computer-integrated manufacturing centre , using a broad range of equipment from IBM Corp , has been inaugurated in Kiev at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute , and while it was there for the ceremonies , IBM took the opportunity of establishing a Representative Office in Kiev , the first to be established outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | And in the general confusion over Sunday opening , there was the opportunity of sneaking a few extra days of trading , and most booksellers who took this up were well rewarded for their efforts . |
| 5 | Whenever possible , students should have the opportunity of accompanying the occupational therapist or physiotherapist on a home visit . |
| 6 | Even in these days of permissiveness , it may be that the one party has not had , or has been denied , the opportunity of discovering the anatomical characteristics of the other . |
| 7 | Most riders dream of the opportunity of riding the perfect schoolmaster — one who will oblige when all the right buttons are pushed but wo n't worry when they 're not . |
| 8 | For the French king , the opportunity of exercising a greater measure of control over Brittany , with its maritime outlets , was not to be missed . |
| 9 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 10 | We have the opportunity of re-fighting the Crimean War , but as we never learn from history , we are doomed to repeat our mistakes , and |
| 11 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 12 | I 'm delighted to once again have the opportunity of following the honourable member for Southend in a debate about European matters . |
| 13 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 14 | Then the opportunity of having an unexpected extra curate was presented to them by George Carey , then Bishop of Bath and Wells , in late July and a new leader moved with his family into the Carters ' house at the end of September . |
| 15 | Denying Gina the opportunity of making the quick contradiction which sprang to her lips , she addressed herself to Rune in her excellent , slightly accented English . |
| 16 | the parent would have the opportunity of making an appropriate |
| 17 | In those cases the parties and the expert should take the opportunity of securing a precise definition of the issue the expert is to decide . |
| 18 | That question shows the weakness of preparing a supplementary before hearing the answer to the main question . |
| 19 | Perhaps buyers are put off by the complexity of learning a new technology . |
| 20 | That , however , was due not just to the complexity of turning the Political Community treaty into reality , but to the problems that the Six were facing in getting the EDC off the ground . |
| 21 | Discusses the effects of social class on educational experience , and the complexity of measuring the relevant features of class in this context . |
| 22 | Even while the Occupation was continuing the pressures of the Cold War and the conflict in Korea pushed US policy in the direction of rebuilding a strong Japan as a capitalist ally in East Asia . |
| 23 | in addition , it is not clear that the re-ordering is in the direction of simplifying the causal structure of the story . |
| 24 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 25 | It drew upon a general concern to reduce the working day ; then , with renewed confidence , attempts were made to extend the struggle by forcing a closed shop . |
| 26 | Each escalation perpetuates the struggle by forcing the other side to match or overtake the enemy 's latest threat . |
| 27 | Despite Lawrence guiding Boro into the Premier League in his first season at Ayresome Park , Bassett won the award for lifting a relegation-threatened side into the top half of the First Division . |
| 28 | The trick in designing a successful patent system is to provide a big enough incentive for invention , but not such a large and long-lived cushion that the benefits of competition are suppressed for ever . |
| 29 | Practice partner uses set sentence ( at normal speed of course ) : ‘ What do people mean when they say … ? ’ and finishes the sentence by including the key word . |
| 30 | In particular , simplification of the design of such ladder filters through the technique of loading the last section with the characteristic impedance was discussed . |