Example sentences of "he ample [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Industry bargaining was also preferable to employers in Italy since it allowed their associations to maintain a tight control on bargaining activities whilst at the same time freeing the individual employer from direct impact with the union — yet giving him ample leeway to influence his employees from outside union channels ( Treu , 1981 ) .
2 These Imperial durbars were Inayat Khan 's favourite material , giving him ample occasion to tug his forelock and fill the pages of the Shah Jehan Nama with paeans to the generosity of his Imperial paymaster .
3 The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay .
4 With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned .
5 It gave him ample time to check the house .
6 This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case .
  Next page