Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE UNITED STATES , citizens are presented with the opportunity to go to the polls at frequent and fixed intervals to elect at national , state , and local levels a host of legislators , executive heads , councilpersons , officials , and even , in some states , judges . |
| 2 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 3 | You will have the opportunity to participate in the students ' learning processes , for example , through acting as a consultant to a Mini-Enterprise , or through working alongside teachers on the production and delivery of materials and lessons . |
| 4 | The class teacher and the head can use the opportunity to talk to the parents about a particular aspect of school life or single out individual parents to discuss progress and developments and , of course , thank parents for their support . |
| 5 | The parish representatives will have the opportunity to discuss with the Agencies of their choice the forms of support which they need to have in their task of bringing alive the mission statement of each parish . |
| 6 | The effect of this was that young fans rarely got the opportunity to travel on the Supporters ' Club coaches and , since travelling by British Rail was often a hazardous and expensive venture , alternative arrangements were needed . |
| 7 | When the UKCC announced its proposals for community nursing , Professional Nurse congratulated Council on its approach , which looked set to unite community nursing and pave the way for an improved service for patients , and also for giving nurses the opportunity to comment on the proposals in true democratic fashion . |
| 8 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the proposals currently being considered by the Government for tackling the problems associated with minerals planning permissions granted in the 1950s , 60s and 70s . |
| 9 | On the Saturday Mum grabbed the opportunity to head for the shops , while the rest of us had an interesting time choosing a tennis racquet for Roland to give to me for my birthday — a generous present and already in use . |
| 10 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 11 | Word of his presence had reached the army commander at Inverness and 1500 men were secretly sent off to capture him , but his hostess got wind of the plan and sent the prince to shelter in the woods , having posted four servants with a local blacksmith to watch for the approaching column . |
| 12 | The model presented here of working with parents enables the clinician to progress at the parents ' rate of change and understanding . |
| 13 | As well as the thrill of danger there was the considerable intellectual satisfaction of taking part in the very sophisticated artillery barrages on closely defined targets which distinguished the assistance the gunners gave to the gallant infantry in the struggle to break through the defences of Tunis ; and his unit supported the epic fight of the Gurkhas , the Rajputana Rifles and the Essex Regiment on Garci . |
| 14 | The willingness to share in the experiences of patients ; to share their sense of loss , disappointment , anger and grief and the spiritual anguish which can challenge the way they have thought , perhaps believed and behaved in the past , can add to your nursing care much more than withdrawing from or denying such experience . |
| 15 | If local authority members are responsible for providing services but do not have to go to their own electorate to raise the money to pay for the services , they have less incentive to make effective use of these funds . |
| 16 | The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill . |
| 17 | Anyone who wishes to contribute must catch the Chairman 's eye and the usual practice then is for the Chairman to call on the persons in the order in which he has seen them . |
| 18 | The decision to refer to the Monopolies Commission mergers like those suggested by United Biscuits and Imperial , Guinness and Distillers , and GEC and Plessey raises important strategic issues for Britain . |
| 19 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 20 | The decision to sell off the yards come nearly four months after Devonport won a contract to refit Trident submarines against competition from Rosyth . |
| 21 | They went down to Birmingham , and while the er , two chairmen negotiated in the dining room , over a , an extremely affluent lunch , Danny Blanchflower was em , pushed into the kitchen to sit with the servants , if you like . |
| 22 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 23 | For instance , construction and similar contracts normally include provisions allocating the responsibility to insure between the parties . |
| 24 | The trainer also has the responsibility to convey to the trainees that they must not think of themselves as problem solvers , but only as facilitators . |
| 25 | He says I 'd like the university to look at the problems , not just the symptoms . |
| 26 | Owners of a historic building on a valuable site who are determined to realize substantial sums on the property often allow the building to decay during the years of indecision . |
| 27 | using natural language indexing and allowing the user to deal with the vagaries of that language , or |
| 28 | If the censor ever allowed any of the story to appear in the newspapers , there would be tales of hot pursuit and near interception — the hot pursuit line giving the l.O.s particular pleasure as the fighters mentioned were Defiants , which everybody knew could not have caught a cold . |
| 29 | The school secretary was looking for other jobs to supplement her pay packet , there was n't enough money in the budget to pay for the books to teach the new curriculum , tests for seven-year-olds were bringing their own problems . |
| 30 | This has the advantage from the point of view of the courts of largely relieving them of the necessity to enter into the merits of business judgment , a matter to which we will return below . |