Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] to have the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am grateful to have the opportunity to raise the subject of the Maidenhead , Windsor and Eton flood alleviation scheme .
2 I am grateful to have the opportunity to do so .
3 I am grateful to have the opportunity to respond to the debate .
4 ‘ I am delighted to have the support of one of the biggest teacher associations , ’ said Mr Balchin .
5 I am delighted to have the opportunity to further the work of collaborative ministry in the Church .
6 I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the question of adult education in Croydon , and to see you , Mr. Speaker , in the Chair , because you and I are privileged to represent constituencies in Croydon .
7 I am delighted to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE VI — this special mobile laboratory which The Nottingham Trent University has funded to provide your pupils and colleagues with a chance to experience the excitement of working with the equipment on board , which has been developed by the :
8 ‘ I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this type of training . ’
9 The more readily answered questions , nothing wrong with it , it 's great but again er you fall into patterns do n't you I 'm sure you on training courses we know that er one or two people are content to have the answer , so what will the rest of us do ?
10 He went on ‘ We would have preferred to build in incremental stages , but we are delighted to have the opportunity of starting from Caernarfon as well as extending from Porthmadog . ’
11 They 're sure to have the time of their lives at the Pirates Club or Club 16 , enjoying hours of fun with newfound friends and leaving you with new-found freedom .
12 See it on a cinema screen — you 're unlikely to have the chance on TV .
13 The left is putting up candidates for only a handful of school districts in bohemian areas like lower Manhattan ; and even in these areas , few teachers are likely to have the courage to teach the rainbow curriculum .
14 Only women in class II and ( especially ) class I are likely to have the accommodation , income , and confidence to employ any kind of residential domestic service : au pairs , housekeepers , or nannies .
15 I am glad to have the opportunity to debate in the House today the White Paper which we published in July this year entitled ’ The Citizen 's Charter ’ .
16 Secondly , I am glad to have the opportunity of relating the framework of our Further and Higher Education Bill , which has today been debated in another place , to the education for adults as it take place on the ground .
17 I am glad to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE V — this special mobile classroom which British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering has funded is to provide your pupils a chance to experience the excitement of working on the equipment on board .
18 I have never had any qualms about refusing to fund a cause I do not support , but am glad to have the chance to give to good causes I might otherwise have missed .
19 I am glad to have the chance to follow the right hon. Member for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , whom I certainly regard as far and away the most successful Leader of the House in all my time here .
20 I am glad to have the chance at a comparatively civilised hour to draw attention to the particular problems facing teachers dealing with allegations of child abuse .
21 I am glad to have the chance of following the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Select Committee , although I strongly disagree with his suggestions , for reasons that I have given before and hope to repeat this evening .
22 The library doubles as a gentleman 's room , or , failing that ( for Kerr remarks elsewhere that ‘ the ladies are not exactly excluded ’ from it ) , they are sure to have the billiard-room to themselves , while the young of the sex may ‘ do as they like ’ in the odd room .
23 Similarly , general practitioners are unlikely to have the management resources to contract for the full range of services required by a local population .
24 I am pleased to have the opportunity of reprinting the material from the original booklet here .
25 I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time .
26 I am pleased to have the chance to complete the enclosed questionnaire and let you know what I think of the NatWest bank and why I am less than satisfied with the service received .
27 ‘ We are excited to have the Wood Group as a large equity holder , ’ he said .
28 It 's about a London-based detective and his TV bosses are eager to have the rest of the scripts .
29 By reason of their ownership rights , and given the ‘ traditional logic of ownership ’ , it is taken that the shareholders are entitled to have the company run in their interests : it is their company .
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