Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett filled the wine cup , drank some himself and then forced the goblet between his servant 's lips , snarling at the porter to bring a blanket . |
| 2 | This is not surprising , since other studies with natural DNAs have shown footprints around GC and GT sites , but confirms that the inability to produce a DNase I footprint in ( AT ) n is not merely due to the close proximity of the overlapping bleomycin cleavage sites . |
| 3 | You may also have the opportunity to attend a course . |
| 4 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 5 | The British note gave Acheson and other officials the opportunity to force a decision . |
| 6 | In any case the resolution of the party conference of 1943 gave Hugh Dalton , who was on the side of the ‘ anti-Germans ’ , and was chairman of the party 's International Committee , the opportunity to draft a statement on the ‘ International Post-war Settlement ’ emphasising German responsibility for the war and the need for her to pay reparations to the Allies . |
| 7 | Lucy felt a surge of excitement , not only because here was the opportunity to see a kiwi in its natural surroundings , but also because she would be returning to the bush with Silas . |
| 8 | There 's the opportunity to take a cookery course as an add-on , and Sue 's first students have requested another course this year on the role of the evening meal . |
| 9 | He would n't miss the opportunity to point a moral . |
| 10 | Partnership provides a forum for the consideration of the evidence and the opportunity to reach a view on it . |
| 11 | So that everyone in Scotland could have been covered and given the opportunity to carry a donor card . |
| 12 | Little by little , however , MacDonald and his closest colleagues became convinced that if they were given the opportunity to form a Government it would be folly to turn it down . |
| 13 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 14 | And now FT Ferguson and Co is giving home buyers the opportunity to view a brand new collection of detached houses in the Ashbury Avenue area of the town . |
| 15 | However , the LNG business is very complex and can confuse even the most experienced analysts , many of whom welcomed the opportunity to spend a day learning about this important asset in LASMO 's portfolio . |
| 16 | In particular , it is felt that the student needs to be allowed some freedom to choose the elements of his own course within the disciplines concerned and to be given the opportunity to spend a proportion of his time working outside his chosen disciplines , for which appropriate credit should be given in the assessment of his degree . |
| 17 | While I was trying to develop this approach to meaning , I was given the opportunity to spend a year in the U.S.A. as a Harkness fellow ( 1964–1965 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Never mind the rights or wrongs of the decision , we should never have given the referee the opportunity to give a penalty in a situation like that . |
| 19 | Giovanna , smiling as she left , said that the bambina had never stirred and she had taken the opportunity to do a pile of ironing . |
| 20 | Obviously with the coming of two elections shortly we have the opportunity to do a lot more canvassing and contact more members of the public and to draw in new members from there . |
| 21 | This service gives clubs and organisations the opportunity to invite a speaker from Scottish Nuclear to give a talk and slide presentation to help them find out the true facts about us . |
| 22 | The tackling of Selkirk 's back row/midfield triangle was a revelation and Graham Marshall took the opportunity to issue a reminder with Scotland 's team to face Fiji being named in midweek . |
| 23 | We took the opportunity to perform a postmortem on one of them , a 5 ½ m male . |
| 24 | The opportunity to own a home and pass it on is one of the most important rights an individual has in a free society . |
| 25 | Renters are not ‘ down-and-outs ’ , but those who do not yet have the opportunity to own a home , though they may well do so in later life . |
| 26 | erm usually if it 's just one or two things people are offered the opportunity to submit a piece of work over the summer |
| 27 | Television also gave her the opportunity to stage a bravura farewell to the nation , not just to fellow MPs , in her last speech as Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Richard Baxter requested the opportunity to preach a farewell sermon and administer communion to his former flock , but this too was denied . |
| 29 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 30 | MR Richard Stott , editor of the Daily Mirror , is to take charge of the People and will be given the opportunity to lead a management buy-out of the Sunday paper , its publisher , Mr Robert Maxwell said yesterday . |