Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Outlawing the defence of following superior orders , for one , ’ said David , noticing that Julia was beginning to look tired . |
| 2 | The value of computerized information retrieval lies not only in the in-depth storage and retrieval of information but in the opportunity for developing in-depth search strategies free from the restraints of searching a number of bibliographic tools for relevant information . |
| 3 | In 1979 , a major reorganisation of the County Library Service for Young People and Education in Essex provided the opportunity for effecting considerable improvements in services to the County 's schools in consultation with the Education Department . |
| 4 | 1.3.4 Other groups such as the Scottish Sports Council and the Scottish Health Education Group saw the opportunity for providing some form of national accreditation for health and fitness training , sports coaching and community sports leadership . |
| 5 | The fund view is flexible enough to provide the opportunity for providing this kind of ‘ additional ’ information . |
| 6 | With recruitment , too , comes the opportunity for redeploying existing staff so as to widen experience . |
| 7 | Not only does it offer the opportunity for forging strong links and friendships between schools in Northern Ireland but it also allows them to learn about a very different social and cultural environment in Japan , ’ said Mr Hanley . |
| 8 | There will be numerous occasions when parents will have the opportunity of meeting Compact employers . |
| 9 | presents the student with the opportunity of displaying practical skills which may involve carrying out a specific task or procedure or the production of an artefact |
| 10 | This form of assessment presents the student with the opportunity of displaying practical skills which may involve the completion of a specified task or procedure or the production of an artifact . |
| 11 | The school-leaving age was raised to sixteen in 1974 , thereby lessening the chance of pupils leaving school without the opportunity of taking qualifying examinations . |
| 12 | Wolverton had the opportunity of giving concrete expression to a gift from the Canadian Government to the Home Office ( Fire Office Division ) by way of the manufacture of 18 mobile kitchens constructed to standards laid down by the Home Office . |
| 13 | Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning . |
| 14 | More passengers have of course benefitted from the electrification of the Oxted and East Grinstead lines , although railway euphoria was possibly dampened by the Minister of Transport who on 30 September took the opportunity of rejecting further recommendations by the Monopoly Commission that increased investment was necessary to provide a satisfactory quality of service on NSE . |
| 15 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 16 | Will you have the opportunity of spending some time with London Agents , and if so what are the financial terms likely to be ? |
| 17 | Taking the opportunity of arranging three subscription concerts in Strasburg he got stranded there because of serious flooding . |
| 18 | The scheme offered the opportunity of doing extra magistrates work . |
| 19 | We welcome the wider scope now open to married women of serving on town councils , and hope in the near future that many of our women will have the opportunity of doing useful work on our local health committees . |
| 20 | what I 'm seeing with this is the opportunity of raising particular issues |
| 21 | Long narrow plots often adjoin older properties and this can give you the opportunity of working existing trees and shrubs into the new design . |
| 22 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 23 | The court 's highly controversial decision ( against which the Prosecutor-General was to appeal ) , and its finding that the Vichy regime had " never planned and practised a consistent anti-semitic ideology " and " at no time … had the purpose or the opportunity of imposing any kind of domination or conquering ideology " had important implications for the outstanding Bousquet and Papon cases [ see pp. 37019 ; 37899 ] . |
| 24 | The withdrawal of sterling from the ERM last September and the subsequent establishment of more favourable exchange rates does , however , provide us with the opportunity of countering these pressures to some extent . |
| 25 | The Town wanted to avoid selling players and could not lightly disregard the opportunity of securing bigger receipts from a capacity crowd at Newcastle . |
| 26 | Oil provides 40% of Norway 's export earnings , and the government gives Statoil , the state-owned oil company , half the contracts for exploiting Norwegian oil . |
| 27 | A more mundane application is to the reduction of interfering mains-frequency signals accidentally picked up in circuits designed to operate at even lower frequency , for example in direct-current circuits . |
| 28 | Carrying out R & D abroad also broadens the base for seeking new product ideas , is cost saving , and is closer to markets . |
| 29 | For a brief moment , the liberal belief in unconstrained thought was hijacked by the radicals and converted into the idea that higher education should become the base for mounting social action . |
| 30 | On the assumption that there was some desired ratio of bankers ' deposits ( part of the monetary base ) to customers ' deposits below which banks would not wish to fall , then limiting the base by controlling these flows must limit the scope for deposit expansion and therefore for lending . |