Example sentences of "[adj] opportunity [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 2 | Firstly , because in some contexts such portrayals are a necessary part of the work of art , and serve to furnish pupils with a valuable opportunity to learn about the notion of contextualization . |
| 3 | Where the Bill has been before a standing committee , so that Members not on the committee have had no previous opportunity to speak on the minutiae of the Bill , there is now an opportunity for them to make their points . |
| 4 | After a disastrous year for British producers , they are now faced with a unique opportunity to capitalise on the benefits of an industry with the highest standards in the world . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a strange situation , but it gave me a unique opportunity to work alongside the workforce under difficult conditions . |
| 6 | It gave Kirov the ideal opportunity to return to the Kharkov air-base and , of course , to see Vologsky . |
| 7 | I find it impossible to comprehend the scale of this arena , and that afternoon provided a great opportunity to relax in the mountains and let them have their effect on us . |
| 8 | Cloudbase Paragliding are offering you a great opportunity to take to the air and raise money for the charity Barnardos . |
| 9 | There are obvious dangers in any such development which may allow the news media to be bound without having had an effective opportunity to argue against the imposition or scope of the injunction . |
| 10 | Early in the half Loughlins missed a good opportunity to level for the Swifts . |
| 11 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 12 | ( b ) You are keeping the focus on language and missing a good opportunity to focus on the message . |
| 13 | One of these areas was an arable field that had been rolled flat , and I felt that this would provide a good opportunity to experiment with the machine 's settings . |
| 14 | The meeting also provides a good opportunity to learn about the sort of medical and financial assistance available — useful for anyone who speaks little English . |
| 15 | However a number of options are open to offer mentally handicapped people a comparable opportunity to work in the community . |
| 16 | Cliftonville had a wonderful opportunity to go into the lead just after the resumption when Tim McCann , lively and dangerous darted through , but as the keeper came out to narrow the angle , he whipped the ball past the far upright . |
| 17 | This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office . |
| 18 | This both demoralised the Tory ‘ progressives ’ such as Powell and McLeod ( who denounced this selection as a victory for the ‘ magic circle ’ of Tory politics ) and gave Wilson a golden opportunity to campaign against the Tories as an anachronistic party out of tune with the ‘ realities of modern Britain' . |
| 19 | One moment of madness by Norwich goalkeeper Bryan Gunn resulted in the penalty which earned the Swiss the draw they craved , leaving the Scots to reflect on a missed opportunity to stay on the fringe of the qualifying race . |
| 20 | The application of advanced electronics and telecommunications to the production process offers a new opportunity to escape from the trap of rigid work hierarchies and the deskilling of workers . |
| 21 | In general , microorganisms present at the site have had sufficient opportunity to adapt to the contaminants and have degraded the waste to some extent . |
| 22 | There is of course no reason why this should be the way in which library skills are taught , even in library periods ; but the use of resource-based learning as an important strategy in a school gives an excellent opportunity to build in the acquisition and practice of library research skills as part of a " natural situation " . |