Example sentences of "opportunity [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holidays abroad are not just a chance to unwind , they 're an opportunity to taste a different culture , see how other people live . |
| 2 | But a reorganisation last year within Telfos Holdings , Hunslet 's parent company , presented the firm with an unmissable opportunity to acquire a 100,000 sq ft factory at Telfos 's headquarters in Leeds . |
| 3 | But a reorganisation last year within Telfos Holdings , Hunslet 's parent company , presented the firm with an unmissable opportunity to acquire a 100,000 sq ft factory at Telfos 's headquarters in Leeds . |
| 4 | What can be done to give even a tenth of our people the opportunity to acquire a small stake in the land , and to replace the missing bottom rungs in the farming ladder ? |
| 5 | On the face of it , this offers a potential bidder the opportunity to acquire a complete portfolio of assets at a discount to their value by taking over the trust by buying up all its shares . |
| 6 | As a special introduction to this colourful , high-quality range of screwdrivers , 25 DIY readers have the opportunity to acquire a boxed set , worth £17.50 , free . |
| 7 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 8 | Hartley is an astute businessman , but he never passes up an opportunity to disparage a successful competitor , and I 'm certainly not the first . |
| 9 | Says organiser Rob Smith : ‘ We are offering a unique opportunity to enjoy a unique series of events in unique surroundings . |
| 10 | Feargal McSorley from BAT said : ‘ Many of those who attended Tuesday 's performance are involved in drama groups within their school or youth club , so of course they are delighted to get the opportunity to see a modern classic being staged by the very talented opera company . ’ |
| 11 | The lucky denizens of East Anglia are being given a rare opportunity to see a magnificent selection of 16th century drawings loaned form the British Museum 's great collection , which is only occasionally exhibited to the general public . |
| 12 | The opportunity to see a semantic net and dynamically generate outlines from it may help authors mold the desired document . |
| 13 | When Henry Vizetelly was prosecuted in 1888 under the obscenity laws for publishing an English translation of Zola 's novel La Terre , purists seized the opportunity to mount a sustained assault on the morally pernicious influence of French culture . |
| 14 | For the Profitboss it is an opportunity to provide a new challenge to Steve Lockhart , the graduate trainee in Personnel who 's won the confidence of the line management in engineering . |
| 15 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 16 | The Socialist government of Sr Felipe Gonzalez saw lower consumption forecasts due to lower levels of economic growth as offering the opportunity to establish a better energy balance . |
| 17 | The report , presented in November 1992 , said that while Europe was totally absent from the vector supercomputing arena , there was a unique opportunity to establish a high performance computing and networking programme . |
| 18 | If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack . |
| 19 | Video also creates the opportunity to observe a wider range of teacher personalities , teaching styles , classroom conditions and learning needs . |
| 20 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
| 21 | I make this a little difficult , creating an opportunity to encourage a shy child to communicate with the alien . |
| 22 | The main motivation is the opportunity to meet a new audience , who have a friendly relationship with foreigners , especially in deep Russia . |
| 23 | Nothing very much has happened so far , but I thought I would take the opportunity to write a longish letter , knowing that I would be busy later on . |
| 24 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 25 | Desserts give more wonderful opportunities to taste a whole range of fine wines . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that members and creditors ( actual or potential ) of companies are afforded ample opportunities to obtain a great deal of financial and other information about the companies concerned . |
| 27 | This system suits level 2 and 3 intermediates perfectly ; many will become proficient with harnesses , and there are good opportunities to try a wide range of boards . |
| 28 | In the course of school history , pupils will need opportunities to use a wide range of secondary sources and printed material . |
| 29 | Until the eighteenth century settlement within the neighbouring parish of West Bromwich took the form of small groups of cottages clustered together in ‘ ends ’ around the heaths , where squatters had opportunities to graze a few animals and to build a little workshop . |
| 30 | It opens up opportunities to supply a wide variety of users with information which is timely , accurate , significant and relevant . |