Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Premier made it clear he was not being forced out .
2 In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other .
3 Conversely , if the house is demolished the layout of the park loses its main feature and is likely to become more and more ragged .
4 The evening also gave Keith Jones , Manager , Personal Banking at Sheffield Church Street Branch , the opportunity to exhibit his Russian skills whilst conversing with the non-English speaking party member and also when rounding off the evening with a traditional toast in Russian .
5 Having been dormant for a while they are looking for funds to give Britain 's young people the opportunity to realise their full skiing potential .
6 However , brighter times are ahead , when you will get the opportunity to realise your full potential .
7 The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence .
8 But the Travelling Workshops Experiment report went on to say that : ‘ … although the new approach was welcomed , few librarians actually took advantage of the opportunity to evaluate their user-education programmes by using the evaluation materials provided by the TWE as part of each package ’ .
9 He did , however , miss the opportunity to improve our dental and general health and collect another billion or so by placing a heavy excise duty on sugar , chocolate and other confectionery , on which we spend over £4 billion a year .
10 People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’
11 Now the Paul Turner-directed film is to be screened on the channel again tomorrow week at 7.45pm and this time non-Welsh speakers will have the opportunity to see what all the fuss is about there will be sub-titles .
12 In doing so they would deny Mr Ashdown the opportunity to take his painful decision .
13 The overall aims of the experience would be specified , including : to give students the opportunity to work in a real production kitchen where the pace , the expectations and the allowed tolerances would be different from a college training kitchen ; to give students the chance to see and use specialist equipment unavailable at college ; to give the students the opportunity to assess their own personal skills , including the ability to cope on their own , away from home .
14 Golf enthusiasts will have the opportunity to plan their entire year on the new Golfer 's 1990 Year Planner which is being launched this autumn .
15 If all input owners have a say in all decisions , decision-making is a costly process : the greater the number of decision-makers , the more resources are used up in sending out the information needed to make the decision ; and the more time is needed , in total , to give each person the opportunity to argue his preferred solution to any problem .
16 Finally , a newsletter , Studio News is issued on subscription to members , so that the wheels of communication are kept well-oiled , and not members miss out on the opportunity to seem their favourite demonstrator in action !
17 Finally , if you will be arriving ahead of the removal lorry , use the opportunity to give your new home a thorough clean .
18 ‘ Maybe we can give them the opportunity to do something new , to wake up a little bit of the market .
19 encouraging offenders to except responsibility for what they have done , but also to take the opportunity to do something positive about that and in that were delivering a service to the public and to the offender , so I think things are improving
20 And who , at the same time , wants to give you the opportunity to do your best for yourself and your family ?
21 Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive .
22 John and Mary , his second American film , did not satisfy his love of action , nor did it provide him with the opportunity to demonstrate his fine sense of place .
23 Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play .
24 May I take the opportunity to thank my right hon. Friend for accepting my invitation to address Wolverhampton chamber of commerce at its annual dinner , where he will meet many members of the west midlands region of the CBI ?
25 Not only do the Opposition always seek to make the worst of the figures , but they would make the figures very much worse if they ever had the opportunity to put their disastrous policies into effect .
26 We want to give them the opportunity to put their own language into practice in a genuine effort to communicate .
27 The response from the people he talks to gives him a grassroots view of the questions being asked throughout the Company , while the meetings give the staff the opportunity to put their own points to him straight from the shoulder .
28 Last week a party of Dublin deaf were in Belfast and I had the opportunity to put my new skills into use .
29 ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word .
30 Cuthbert Welch , the medical officer of health , took the opportunity to emphasise his own higher responsibilities .
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