Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence . |
2 | Now the Paul Turner-directed film is to be screened on the channel again tomorrow week at 7.45pm and this time non-Welsh speakers will have the opportunity to see what all the fuss is about there will be sub-titles . |
3 | The overall aims of the experience would be specified , including : to give students the opportunity to work in a real production kitchen where the pace , the expectations and the allowed tolerances would be different from a college training kitchen ; to give students the chance to see and use specialist equipment unavailable at college ; to give the students the opportunity to assess their own personal skills , including the ability to cope on their own , away from home . |
4 | Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play . |
5 | We want to give them the opportunity to put their own language into practice in a genuine effort to communicate . |
6 | The response from the people he talks to gives him a grassroots view of the questions being asked throughout the Company , while the meetings give the staff the opportunity to put their own points to him straight from the shoulder . |
7 | ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word . |
8 | Cuthbert Welch , the medical officer of health , took the opportunity to emphasise his own higher responsibilities . |
9 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
10 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
11 | Scott , who joined the building society in January from the Midland Bank , intends to launch a savings product which he says ‘ will give customers the opportunity to mix their own savings product . |
12 | The Latvian Church now has the opportunity to produce its own newspaper , educational material and theological literature . |
13 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
14 | erm Obviously , as it 's being passed on to groups , we ca n't make any decision at the moment on whether we think it 's a good thing or not , we do n't get the opportunity to endorse it all , like today . |
15 | When I saw the opportunity to strengthen my own position and lay claim to that which rightfully belonged to me , I brought you the papers , and , being the trusting fellow you are , you made no bones about signing them . |
16 | A group formed to give ordinary motorists the opportunity to race their own cars safely . |
17 | What 's more , readers offer students the opportunity to direct their own learning in choosing what to read and how to tackle it . |
18 | Readers also offer students the opportunity to direct their own learning through choosing what to read and how to tackle it : readers increase students ' confidence and independence and make language learning fun . |
19 | Having said that , we have , of course , taken the opportunity to review our own sales operation in Europe . |
20 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
21 | She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution . |
22 | You will be working in a solicitor 's office or other approved organisation and will have the opportunity to handle your own cases , see clients and undertake most of the work of a solicitor whilst under supervision . |
23 | A purpose-built training facility , the IBM Information Centre , is being established to give members of staff the opportunity to enhance their own skills in this direction . |
24 | For example , the wife and mother has the opportunity to soothe her own unconscious envy of the baby vicariously by the devoted care she gives to him . |
25 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
26 | Thank you , yes , erm thank you very much for inviting me to attend to those meetings and giving me the opportunity to meet you all . |
27 | Her hopes that he might leave something to chance and throw her the opportunity to make her own way back faded as she saw him lock up and pocket the key . |
28 | discretion or it is hoped that pupils would be afforded the opportunity to make their own , if |
29 | The Daurog sniffed its own finger , then licked at the glistening nail . |
30 | The Acts gives us many examples of Christian people bearing witness to Jesus , in particular his death and resurrection , to soldiers and governors , prince-lings and mediums , crowds and individuals . |