Example sentences of "[art] [adj] opportunity for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time they appeared to offer the greatest opportunities for the cities , yet ten years afterwards they appear to reflect a lost age . |
| 2 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 3 | It was also the first opportunity for the Sandinistas to assess their opposition role after losing elections in February 1990 to the right-wing National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios [ see p. 37236 ] . |
| 4 | Stag parties and hen parties used to be held the night before the wedding , the last opportunity for the girls and boys to go out , or stay at home , with friends of their own sex . |
| 5 | Professor Colin Bell , of Edinburgh University 's sociology department , said : ‘ The conference represents a unique opportunity for the doctors and nurses who care for people who are generally regarded as being ‘ hopelessly ill ’ to get together with lawyers , philosophers and sociologists to discuss the very real dilemmas — social , legal and medical — posed by such people . |
| 6 | AFTER five minutes Loughlins missed a good opportunity for the Swifts . |
| 7 | The real point about the events of 1558 is that it was a missed opportunity for the Catholics , missed because Mary of Guise still temporized , still would not put the weight of the ‘ state ’ behind that of the church . |
| 8 | The tunnel was a long-overdue link with Europe as well as a new opportunity for the railways . |
| 9 | In the old days , when Margaret Thatcher was still a chemist , and John Major was John Major-Ball , most MPs and many Ministers stayed away from the Party conferences , regarding it as a necessary vulgarity , an annual opportunity for the spear-carriers and party bit-players to travel to a seaside resort out of season to spend a few days in the proximity of the great . |
| 10 | But in addition there is an immediate opportunity for the authorities concerned to reformulate , in collaboration with the Law Commission , the appropriate limits to recovery , on a coherent system of principles suitable for modern society , in terms which can ( if it is thought right to do so ) embrace the unusual circumstances of the present case . |
| 11 | They play Newry this Saturday at the Showgrounds and it 's an excellent opportunity for the Reds to move a step nearer their target of a quarter-final place . |