Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition affects the peripheral area of the retina , including the rod cells which help vision in poor light , and can result in progressive ‘ tunnel vision ’ and ‘ night blindness ’ , the inability to see in the dark . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 4 | The opportunity to participate in the Parade on 15 September to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain was a particular honour for the Association . |
| 5 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 6 | You will have the opportunity to participate in the students ' learning processes , for example , through acting as a consultant to a Mini-Enterprise , or through working alongside teachers on the production and delivery of materials and lessons . |
| 7 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 8 | For example , someone who has a problem with alcohol may find himself or herself thinking progressively more during the day about the opportunity to drink in the evening . |
| 9 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
| 10 | You would like the opportunity to join in the shooting . |
| 11 | Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it . |
| 12 | Gary Speed now has the opportunity to play in the middle of midfield , I hope that 's where Wilko plays him . |
| 13 | They took the opportunity to share in the daily 10 o'clock Mass , a privilege denied them during their working life . |
| 14 | After all , becoming a provisional member of Equity does n't give them work , it merely gives them the opportunity to work in the career for which they have trained . |
| 15 | Thus was Fiddling denied the opportunity to keep in the fixture against the touring Indians , made famous by the celebrated arrival on the scene of Frank Tyson . |
| 16 | Word of his presence had reached the army commander at Inverness and 1500 men were secretly sent off to capture him , but his hostess got wind of the plan and sent the prince to shelter in the woods , having posted four servants with a local blacksmith to watch for the approaching column . |
| 17 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 18 | Take the centre of mass as origin and the orbit to lie in the xOy plane with the masses along the x axis at time zero . |
| 19 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 20 | The willingness to share in the experiences of patients ; to share their sense of loss , disappointment , anger and grief and the spiritual anguish which can challenge the way they have thought , perhaps believed and behaved in the past , can add to your nursing care much more than withdrawing from or denying such experience . |
| 21 | At some stage someone , either in the computer department , or in the user department , will think of using the computer to assist in the operation of their department . |
| 22 | Tammuz had dimmed the lights , put his feet up , and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen . |
| 23 | Defence Minister Volker Rühe declared that , although the operation " fell far short of any question of military deployment in the sense of force being used " , the decision to participate in the force , co-ordinated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Western European Union ( WEU ) , was " more than a gesture , more than a symbol — it is a serious step " . |
| 24 | Bernard had now taken the decision to stay in the area . |
| 25 | The class teacher retaining a copy of the certificate to place in the child 's personal file . |
| 26 | Clause 10.2 of Precedent 2 provides an express right for the buyer to cancel in the event of breach by the seller . |
| 27 | MAS also has the experience to assist in the disposal of any non-core activities purchased indirectly as part of the acquisition process . |
| 28 | When the promised sprinters were not delivered on time , when the fares increased in proportion to the decline in reliability , when children are stranded because trains have broken down , when Conservative-controlled Suffolk county council subsidises the late night train , and when central Government grant for British Rail goes up , yet the service is still like a lottery , I despaired , I despair , and I will continue to despair until we give individuals , travellers , employees and taxpayers a real incentive to make it work — the freedom to succeed in the private sector . |
| 29 | If the censor ever allowed any of the story to appear in the newspapers , there would be tales of hot pursuit and near interception — the hot pursuit line giving the l.O.s particular pleasure as the fighters mentioned were Defiants , which everybody knew could not have caught a cold . |
| 30 | Alain acquainted her with the necessity to leave in the morning and would not countenance any thought of her staying here alone . |