Example sentences of "[vb past] the opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Richmond believes the authority squandered the opportunity to create a shops development in part of the town centre which could be hit by the new Cornmill shopping complex . |
| 2 | However , a 72nd-minute break by the powerhouse centre , Paul Rouse , produced the opportunity for Cousin , a late replacement on the left-wing for Adrian Astley-Jones , to dart in for his second try . |
| 3 | Everyone needs practise and Jack got the opportunity for more than most . |
| 4 | I could n't move much higher then because I got the opportunity to work for Jack Nicklaus ! |
| 5 | Settlers , too , when they got the opportunity , liked to bask in what they supposed to be the approbation of the Masai . |
| 6 | ‘ Dennis had played a seasson for Northants and I got the opportunity to go and see him in Perth , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | The effect of this was that young fans rarely got the opportunity to travel on the Supporters ' Club coaches and , since travelling by British Rail was often a hazardous and expensive venture , alternative arrangements were needed . |
| 8 | Helen Martin , our chairperson said , ‘ The Heatfest weekend was so important to us as tenants because for the very first time , the people who live in the damp houses got the opportunity to sit round the table with the people who in the past were responsible for creating the kinds of conditions that we are now forced to live in and we could say , hey look ! |
| 9 | It 's always been on my mind — I suppose it always will — and I 've always said that if I got the opportunity to kill the man I 'd do it , and I would take the consequences . |
| 10 | and I said as soon as we got the opportunity of moving away we would do , and we searched all over the erm , when it come to , went into Lincolnshire , went into Wales |
| 11 | Such gains were effectively only taxed as and when a UK resident enjoyed a benefit ; hence arose the opportunity for a gross roll-up of gains , followed by the eventual distribution of all gains to a beneficiary on a tax holiday . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter requested the opportunity to preach a farewell sermon and administer communion to his former flock , but this too was denied . |
| 13 | In addition the development of birth-control techniques provided the opportunity for the above changes of attitudes to be encouraged . |
| 14 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 15 | This provided the opportunity to widen the High Street . |
| 16 | In 1979 , a major reorganisation of the County Library Service for Young People and Education in Essex provided the opportunity for effecting considerable improvements in services to the County 's schools in consultation with the Education Department . |
| 17 | The club raised over £100.00 for the Orsett Hospital Fund and provided the opportunity for many visitors to the fair to try their hands at using a metal detector for the first time . |
| 18 | This provided the opportunity for Britain 's prime minister , Disraeli , to make a swift purchase of Egypt 's shares in the canal . |
| 19 | The OU provided the opportunity . |
| 20 | Mrs Murphy snatched the opportunity to ask Mrs Frizzell to proceed with her report , which she did , outlining the story as far as she knew it and using as many euphemisms as she could . |
| 21 | He also grasped the opportunity to synthesise and in 1913 published The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements . |
| 22 | Henry grasped the opportunity ; it could lead to Paris ( which the Burgundian party at that moment controlled ) and to much else , besides . |
| 23 | Canon Wheeler was impervious to the gentleness but grasped the opportunity . |
| 24 | And in the age-old tradition of sirens , whatever their sex , Zambia used the opportunity of post-coital languor , not to mention the accessory of intoxication , to gently squeeze Tammuz for information . |
| 25 | The grateful colonists used the opportunity to expropriate the cattle and other assets of the fugitives . |
| 26 | Edward I was asked to resolve the disputed succession and used the opportunity to assume control of Scotland , its revenues and administration . |
| 27 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
| 28 | Heath also used the opportunity of Trend 's retirement to change the nature of the steering-briefs for the Prime Minister — Brook 's innovation , it will be recalled . |
| 29 | Influential Inspectors like Christian Schiller of the Department of Education and Science ; headteachers like Tom Johns in Oxfordshire ; classroom teachers like Sybil Marshall ; lecturers in colleges of education , like Len Marsh ; directors of education like Alec Clegg in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; and creative thinkers like Robin Tanner , Edith Moorhouse and John Coe ; used the opportunity which the massive restructuring of state education gave and were instrumental in building up , for the first time , a coherent philosophy for the English primary school . |
| 30 | He used the opportunity to issue charters for places across the whole duchy , he rave judgements and established lasting friendships with one or two important lords from which he was later to reap benefits . |