Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] this opportunity [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad and Liza went inquiring door to door while Frankie and I used this opportunity to see if our bottles were safe in the washhouse . |
| 2 | I welcome this opportunity to congratulate the Government on the Gracious Speech and on their proposal to abolish the community charge and to replace it with the council tax . |
| 3 | May I take this opportunity to dispel rumours , circulating among supporters , concerning Mr Pahdra Singh 's involvement with an unnamed supermarket syndicate which is believed to be interested in purchasing ‘ The Tip ’ for redevelopment . |
| 4 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 5 | ‘ May I take this opportunity to thank you all for the good work you are doing and assure you of my prayers . ’ |
| 6 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 7 | MAY I take this opportunity to say how relieved I was to find that the August 1992 issue of your splendid magazine was largely free of the indefatigable hostility directed towards rugby league football by its immediate predecessor ? |
| 8 | May I take this opportunity to say how sickened I was by the small group of supporters hounding the ticket kiosk for their money back , after Monday night 's County Shield match against Whaddon YMCA . |
| 9 | May I take this opportunity to offer my condolences . |
| 10 | May I take this opportunity to congratulate Hardley school in my constituency which was the first in Hampshire to achieve grant-maintained status ? |
| 11 | May I take this opportunity to introduce myself . |
| 12 | I take this opportunity to say that not only that ship but our collaboration in relation to the French frigate and the type 23 frigate orders which will be given shortly show our commitment to naval orders . |
| 13 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 14 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 15 | It was very appropriate that the 18th and last venue for the poster exhibition should be where a distinguished founding member of the Chemical Society lived and worked , and on behalf of the Essex Section Committee , I take this opportunity to thank Leaback and the Stepney Historical Trust for their most welcome contribution to this closing event . |
| 16 | A summary of export mission achievements is shown on page 10 of this Report and I take this opportunity to thank all those who have led Scottish Council missions during 1989/90 for their excellent support . |
| 17 | I take this opportunity to thank all the Councillors of both major parties who served on our access parental rights panels . |
| 18 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | We now have trust status , however , and I take this opportunity to congratulate the team on its application . |
| 20 | If the students we teach have access to video , we need to help them use this opportunity to develop their control of the language they are studying . |
| 21 | We welcome this opportunity to restate our position and encourage other units to follow our lead . |
| 22 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 23 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 24 | Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date . |
| 25 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 26 | Will he use this opportunity to ask British Steel to consider modernising the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell rather than building an expensive new plate mill , which would be less profitable for British Steel ? |
| 27 | Will he take this opportunity to give a categorical assurance that none of the agencies will be allowed or encouraged to derecognise any of the civil service trade unions ? |
| 28 | Will he take this opportunity to say what progress is being made on the question of preventive diplomacy , for which the secretary-general has set a deadline of 1 July ? |
| 29 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that it is the three strands that will form the basis of any future talks , and that against that background there will always be the Anglo-Irish Agreement , until the two Governments feel that they have something that transcends it ? |
| 30 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that sufficient resources will be made available to ensure that full establishment is maintained at each of those locations for men and resources , for training and administration ? |