Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 2 | However , observers questioned its likely fairness , considering the inability to participate of three leading opposition figures : Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , the secretary-general of the main opposition party , the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , under house arrest since July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] and on Jan. 16 , 1990 , banned from participating in the elections [ see p. 37188 ] ; Gen. ( retd ) Tin U , the NLD chairman , imprisoned in December 1989 [ see p. 37123 ] ; and former Prime Minister U Nu , leader of the League for Democracy and Peace ( LDP ) , in December 1989 placed under a restriction order and banned from participating in the elections [ see pp. 37123-24 ] . |
| 3 | Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence , the dying out of speech as expression , the inability to communicate at all . |
| 4 | The inability to operate with high levels of trust itself implies the use of more complex formal organisational arrangements as a replacement for the more informal co-ordination mechanisms which are possible when there is a higher level of good will . |
| 5 | Indecisiveness , insufficient financial resources , a hostile press , the inability to count on sufficient political support , and lack of creative imagination are the negative factors which will bear on his personal decision . |
| 6 | They often went to the park to sit by that lake . ’ |
| 7 | What the trust offered was the opportunity to invest in interest-bearing mortgages . |
| 8 | Wirral , at the time of writing , is in the enviable position of having the opportunity to respond to any switch from smoking to injecting heroin , and of ensuring that those drug users who do inject have clean equipment and are aware of the risks ( cf. |
| 9 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 10 | The overseas trade fair will give 25 companies from all over Northern Ireland the opportunity to sell to hundreds of US buyers . |
| 11 | Moreover , we regard such fees as undesirable because we are keen that there should be no avoidable barriers to access on the part of people who have not traditionally had the opportunity to go into higher education . |
| 12 | Her studies were interrupted by the opportunity to go into local politics , from which she has never looked back . |
| 13 | The table shows the enthusiasm with which centres took the opportunity to go beyond straightforward transfer of old courses . |
| 14 | The important thing to emphasize is that women are given the opportunity to participate in all areas of work and that there exists a definite attempt to organize and train women for tasks outside the domestic sphere , One finds many women who are in charge of supplies , or working in the munition workshops , in tailoring , shoe-making , pottery or local manufactures , such as hammocks and so on . |
| 15 | The Joint Venture and other gas producers in this area have the opportunity to participate in each package of contracts . |
| 16 | As far as their disabilities allow they should have the opportunity to participate in normal community activities . |
| 17 | It is a common and enormously frustrating experience for foreign language learners , presented with the opportunity to participate in authentic conversation with native speakers , to fail to join in successfully , despite having a high level of proficiency in the classroom . |
| 18 | ‘ I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this type of training . ’ |
| 19 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 20 | He believes that older people should be given the opportunity to participate in civic activities during retirement and argues for : |
| 21 | Yet the judge left as alternative verdicts open to the jury , guilty of causing grievous bodily harm , contrary to section 20 or guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm , contrary to section 47 , without indicating to counsel his intention of doing so or giving the defence the opportunity to deal with such alternatives . |
| 22 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 23 | But if voters have voted for a successful candidate why should some of them — just which , we shall examine later — be given the opportunity to vote for another candidate ? |
| 24 | MORE THAN two million Britons living abroad have not taken the opportunity to vote in this election . |
| 25 | Being free from the constraint of responding to logged calls and from the need to react quickly to one call after another gives the neighbourhood police the opportunity to engage in prolonged contact with the public . |
| 26 | Acting , he told me , was ‘ a wonderful job that gives me the opportunity to drink with some really good friends in exotic places around the world ’ . |
| 27 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 28 | It gives me the opportunity to explain in proper terms why the Government took that step and to give the lie to many of the hon. Gentleman 's arguments . |
| 29 | Such an idea offers elders , carers and practitioners the opportunity to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate suffering . |
| 30 | After a week in the country , Baxter 's health greatly improved and so he took the opportunity to preach in some of the needy country churches in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |