Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just a strange feeling and of course the inability to contact anyone in the Shill 's room . |
| 2 | This would give her the opportunity to say something in time for the next morning 's American newspapers . |
| 3 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 4 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 5 | Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task . |
| 6 | He used to listen to his music all the time when he was not at college , so the opportunity to do something like this was like a homage to Hendrix , a thank you for letting him discover music . ’ |
| 7 | and Phyllis had n't had the opportunity to discuss anything with |
| 8 | Sadly , the British Museum , which does not own a plate by the artist , has turned down the opportunity to buy one on grounds of expense . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 'm relishing the opportunity to follow someone like John but I have my own goals . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I 'm relishing the opportunity to follow someone like John . |
| 11 | The stairway brought one to a first-floor lobby , a vast room of chandeliers and mahogany panelling and bentwood chairs with velvet cushions . |
| 12 | Or did the Prince expect something in return ? |
| 13 | The trial did nothing for Musgrave 's popularity . |
| 14 | And as if Ontario was n't pretty enough of a picture , there are the galleries showing everything from the avant-garde to Old Masters . |
| 15 | Ian 's not far enough across the board to do anything to me . |
| 16 | Surely the Board have someone in mind . |
| 17 | The technique requires lots of data and lots of computing . |
| 18 | Moreover , the measure says nothing about how the wealth is distributed ; a country could raise its GNP by expanding capital intensive industries which leave the poorest sectors of that society completely untouched . |
| 19 | And The Shamen have plenty of theories . |
| 20 | You see now our Judy 's gone , I mean she weeed everywhere and there were nobody had got the heart to do anything about it . |
| 21 | But the narrative has plenty of life and is enlivened by aperçus of Butler , Kennedy and other contemporaries . |
| 22 | The case says nothing about other restaurants , but there are almost bound to be more in a city centre location . |
| 23 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 24 | Such readings of the text lead one to the conclusion that patriarchal presuppositions are woven into the writing in such a way that they can not be extricated . |
| 25 | Initially , the plans said no-one with a disposable income of more than £42 per week would get advice and assistance . |
| 26 | Schellenberg said cautiously , ‘ So the Führer knows nothing of the affair ? ’ |
| 27 | It was like a virtually an all night blitz job and so bits of it , you know , it was n't like , totally completed , you know , you 've got and as Scouse was doing some of it it was er the paintwork leaves something to be desired in areas . |
| 28 | Subsequently , Apricot did sell its manufacturing side to Mitsubishi , though it denied that the decision owed anything to Troubleshooter . |
| 29 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |
| 30 | My point is simply that the decision to put something in other words is a decision about style , which like all decisions about style , is constrained by the search for relevance . |