Example sentences of "[verb] had [art] opportunity " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such occasion will be when the adult is brought to hospital unconscious after an accident , and has had no opportunity to signify whether she consents to treatment or not . |
| 2 | Mrs Guest has had every opportunity to study the great taste-makers of the century — many were close friends . |
| 3 | ‘ This year , ’ explains Mr Aimetti , ‘ the German company has had the opportunity to take advantage of the boom there and made a big profit , so we pay tax in Germany . |
| 4 | He has had the opportunity to reproduce 430 of the 500 drawings which originally constituted that collection and to mount a touring exhibition over three years : for the first , and probably only time therefore , they will all be seen together right across the world . |
| 5 | The research evidence also suggests that the pupil of average socio-economic status tends to higher achievement in ‘ uncreamed schools ’ , that is schools where high ability pupils are not sent to selective schools , and where the school has had the opportunity to establish itself . |
| 6 | With R & D environments , a project may frequently be stopped or transferred to another department before the inventor has had the opportunity to reap the joy that comes from full explorations of their work . |
| 7 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 8 | For example , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for St Giles in East London considered that widows must be held in part responsible for their own condition : ‘ After the lapse of a certain number of years , when a widow has had the opportunity of showing providence on her own account , I think you may separate her from her late husband , but not immediately after his death ’ . |
| 9 | Will the Lord President of the Council , as a fellow Scot , tell me whether he has had the opportunity to study in depth the implications of the ICM opinion poll ? |
| 10 | These are usually temporary measures which can be obtained quite swiftly and will involve the court directing the developer not to carry out the development until the court has had an opportunity to consider the dispute in detail . |
| 11 | One assumes from this that there should be no repeat of the Investment Business Regulations debacle but , until such time as the Institute has had an opportunity to demonstrate that it can resist the temptation to create any further unnecessary bureaucracy , members are likely to be justifiably sceptical . |
| 12 | Lautro should reconsider its practice of issuing a press notice and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had an opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded , to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board has ruled in the application ( post , pp. 581F–G , 582A ) . |
| 13 | I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has had an opportunity to get a copy of the environmental impact assessment from the Vote Office and to read it . |
| 14 | He has had an opportunity to make his point , and I wish to end with one important point . |
| 15 | I will be contacting you again after [ date ] when my client has had an opportunity to consider all indicative offers received . |
| 16 | Worksheets could be distributed in the second half of the visit , once the group has had an opportunity to explore and react to the site . |
| 17 | If all parties consent , and the guardian has had an opportunity to make representations , the court may grant the request without a hearing . |
| 18 | Of course she was glad she 'd had the opportunity to savour this experience , but it was also curiously frightening , because it was stirring something deep inside her that she had n't realised existed . |
| 19 | and his wife , it was her second marriage , her first one had been to the doctor and he had actually examined paedophilia backed off , basically said well she did n't , she could n't get a conviction but it was quite clear that he had the motive and he 'd had the opportunity because Connie died from the fire which Harvey Jones had set cos he found out |
| 20 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 21 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 22 | Having had the opportunity to settle in a bit and have a look around , I am beginning to get my bearings . |
| 23 | Having had the opportunity through working at a hospice of attending many funerals I have grown used to seeing the shudders and worried looks that pass between grieving family and friends as they struggle to make sense of the words being read . |
| 24 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 25 | Having had the opportunity to discuss the international trade market , my understanding of requirements for market data is as follows : |
| 26 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 27 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If he ( and of course this applies to girls too ) is the oldest child in the family , he will have had the opportunity to be the centre of attention for some time . |
| 30 | Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post . |