Example sentences of "a opportunity [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While his approach was one of conservative conformity on the whole , in line with previous papal policy , he was not a man to overlook an opportunity to extend the Roman Church 's influence . |
| 2 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 3 | It also gives participants an opportunity to see the complete video and express their first impressions . |
| 4 | Sally Gunnell will also go to Crystal Palace with an opportunity to earn the equivalent women 's title and same bumper pay-day but her chances look more bleak after she was beaten in the one-lap hurdles for the first time in a year by her US rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick . |
| 5 | These journeys , operated by Edinburgh Transport and S.M.T. under contract to Lothian Regional Council , are specified so as to give residents of Ratho an opportunity to reach the nearest large shopping and business centre , which happens to be Edinburgh . |
| 6 | Bookmarks that also carry a message can be very popular , giving you an opportunity to research the enormous and fascinating language of flowers . |
| 7 | National Youth Sunday is an opportunity to remind the young people , and older parishioners , that we all play an equally important part within the Church . |
| 8 | He never missed an opportunity to criticise the new ruck/maul laws and he had an absolute right to do so — because it is he who has found ways to minimise their dreadful effect , because he was never one of those coaches who sought refuge under the old laws , and because he is the finest coach in the world by results , demeanour and inspiration . |
| 9 | This is because there will be an opportunity to shelter the resulting " trust gains " from capital gains tax until such time as capital payments are made by the trustees to UK-resident beneficiaries ( see s97 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 10 | She recalled to herself that the circumstances of their visit had deprived them of an opportunity to examine the ancient willow tree sprung from a plank of Noah 's Ark . |
| 11 | The reports of the SD station in Würzburg and its subsidiary agencies in the area offer an opportunity to explore the changing mood of the population of Lower Franconia in the light of the five air raids on the local town of Schweinfurt , an important centre of ball-bearing production , so crucial for the armaments industry , between August 1943 and April 1944 . |
| 12 | The Asians will not want to lose ground in the mixed doubles in the build-up to Atlanta and the Belfast match will provide them with an opportunity to test the best in Europe . |
| 13 | At Amsteg motorists who are in haste to reach a further destination have an opportunity to leave the old Gotthard road in favour of entry to the fast N2 motorway before the old road enters the steepest and most tortuous part of the route . |
| 14 | Here was an opportunity to demonstrate the architectural difference between analytical thought in the service of society and the Czech artist Karel Teige as the difference between buildings that are instruments and buildings that were conceived as expendable machines , not eternal monuments or worse , post-Modern fakes . |
| 15 | The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures . |
| 16 | where there has been surprise , as where the trial judge allows the case to proceed on a basis other than that pleaded without giving the other side an opportunity to consider the new material ; |
| 17 | The ceasefire with Iran in September 1988 was taken as an opportunity to concentrate the military offensive on those living in Iraq Kurdistan . |
| 18 | Consultants and academics alike saw an opportunity to change the recognised rules of cost management . |
| 19 | Those who argued its virtues saw in this new kind of school an opportunity to blend the best in primary and secondary habits and , in particular , to extend for two extra years some of the freedom associated with good primary-school practice . |
| 20 | This can also be used as an opportunity to discuss the relative cost of long-term and short-term debt finance . |
| 21 | And if there were a proposal to establish a funding council , that would best be done in the context of the further education colleges having acquired self-governing status , having found their feet and having had an opportunity to discuss the respective roles of the funding council and of the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | We saw it as an opportunity to demystify the male worlds of plumbing , electricity and carpentry . |
| 23 | The coming out of the horse , following long discussions and meetings between doctors , nurses , patients and artists , was also an opportunity to denounce the miserable conditions of the Mental Hospital , the backwardness of the law in force , the nurses ' working conditions and , above all , the lack of real prospects for all those patients who were already capable of living outside the hospital . |
| 24 | The current phase of the debate had been developing since January 1992 when the country 's veteran leader , Deng Xiaoping , had used a tour of the special enterprise zones in southern China as an opportunity to praise the free market as a key mechanism of economic growth [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 25 | While working on a book of tropical island pictures , earlier this year , I visited Tahiti three times and had an opportunity to vary the outward journey . |
| 26 | Roh 's subsequent decision to join them reflected the strategic vision associated with his political style ; the merger offered an opportunity to break the current legislative impasse resulting from the DJP 's failure to command an overall majority within the legislature . |
| 27 | The Ibrox manager , Walter Smith , had too much respect for tradition yesterday , however , to take an opportunity to diminish the modern-day importance of his club 's historic rivals . |
| 28 | This year we have decided to dovetail into the same period as the York Festival and Mystery Plays to offer you an opportunity to experience the remarkable cycle of York plays alongside the Early Music Festival . |
| 29 | For Sam Wanamaker aims to make this an opportunity to furnish the International Globe Centre with work by British craftspeople , while recreating the theatre using 17th century techniques . |
| 30 | The employers saw this as an opportunity to ensure the complete destruction of trade unionism and , between 1877 and 1922 , set out to achieve this aim . |