Example sentences of "opportunity [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Mr Farraday seized the opportunity to grin broadly at me and say with some deliberation : |
| 2 | To provide people with the opportunity to acquire even a tiny stake in the land is a daunting task calling for wisdom , courage , and political integrity almost unheard of in modern times . |
| 3 | Just mating with a single female may be difficult enough and very few will have the opportunity to mate more than once a year . |
| 4 | Of the 17 other clerks of works , several were close to retirement age and took the opportunity to retire early ; others were given severance terms . |
| 5 | NetWorld is in town October 13 through October 15 and it 's seen as the perfect opportunity to gather together Novell 's new OEMs and distributors , a subset of Novell 's Platinum and Gold resellers , for the hoopla . |
| 6 | Thus , given liberty and the opportunity to cope realistically with the problem of getting enough to eat the dream process was no longer invoked . |
| 7 | And if your friends at the club tell you there 's an opportunity to go upmarket , convince your boss of the opportunity and do just that . |
| 8 | Coleraine started brightly with Cook and Brian Donaghy both going close in the opening three minutes , but the Crues settled quickly and were presented with a golden opportunity to go ahead in the 12th minute . |
| 9 | My preferance would be to play either Strachan and Rocky together with Speed in the Batty role , this would give him the opportunity to go forward if required plus utilise his good ball winning skills or if i had to choose between the two I would pick Rocky providing he was fit . |
| 10 | So these are the areas for the new monies being spent and as I said earlier as the economic development action plan is developed , it will be an opportunity to go forward to the th th t t to fund that initiative . |
| 11 | The win earns them the opportunity to go forward to the national championships at Hemel Hempstead in the south of England . |
| 12 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 13 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 14 | Less easy to predict , though , was the way in which Scotland squandered an opportunity to go further in front 13 minutes before the interval . |
| 15 | Radio Tanzania on Sept. 18 cited Diria as saying that both sides were being given the opportunity to go home and clarify their positions . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax made the point that the rundown of long-stay care for the elderly in our health service and the move towards the elderly having the opportunity to go only into private nursing care is to be deprecated . |
| 17 | When the dust finally settled on the day 's play , the Stoddard Captain , showing no reluctance to collect the Buchanan Cup on behalf of Stoddards , even although he had played for Lyles , took the opportunity to thank both Eddie Docherty and Ian McCulloch of Lyles for the splendid organisation of the event . |
| 18 | Thousands of people flocked to the country 's newest prison over the weekend for a rare opportunity to see inside . |
| 19 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
| 20 | And also as a , a to form a sort of living erm community where there is opportunity to work locally . |
| 21 | It is not often that social workers are given the opportunity to work closely with people at the end of their lives . |
| 22 | The French staff say they 're glad to get the opportunity to work here . |
| 23 | Th th th there 's all of that and there is obviously the , the option to borrow and there is the opportunity to work as , as hired labour or handicrafts etcetera . |
| 24 | We made a team to give them the opportunity to work together … to give them the respect … to give them the idea that they could be in the top 50 , not by talking but by working together . |
| 25 | A SERIES of team-building initiatives have been taking place across AEA to give staff at all levels the opportunity to work together to formulate team action plans which can be applied in the workplace . |
| 26 | Flexible working is an added opportunity to provide even more refinement by allowing staff at the sharp end to make their own judgements about staffing levels on a day-to-day basis . |
| 27 | A Ministry Centre has also the opportunity to establish far closer links with the means and process of implementation especially in regard to publishing and distribution of materials , trial , follow up and evaluation in schools . |
| 28 | As we start afresh to build a new church , we have a heaven sent opportunity to try again for this possibility of godly unity which , if we let it , will be so powerful in persuading the world of the divinity of Jesus . |
| 29 | It was an opportunity to try again . ’ |
| 30 | Next there is an opportunity to try again : — |