Example sentences of "[pers pn] gives [pron] [art] opportunity " in BNC.

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1 It gives me the opportunity to see God in young people and watch them develop in their faith in the short time that they are here .
2 For one thing it gives me the opportunity to write to you , and also I must have time to draw breath and come to terms with this astounding piece of good fortune that has befallen me .
3 It gives me the opportunity to explain in proper terms why the Government took that step and to give the lie to many of the hon. Gentleman 's arguments .
4 It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate .
5 Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups .
6 It gives them the opportunity of working on a real live project er which actually has an end point and is going to be used .
7 As for the girl , it gives her the opportunity to start again and , hopefully , refrain from future transgression . ’
8 It gives everyone an opportunity to take stock .
9 It gives us the opportunity to shape the direction of the Community and to establish its priorities .
10 On tonight 's match , Cooper said : ‘ There 's a lot at stake and it gives us the opportunity to put things right . ’
11 It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials .
12 It gives us the opportunity to work on persuading the huge catchment area around us that it is perfectly possible to get the Hamilton habit after work when experiencing a top evening out . ’
13 It gives us an opportunity to say , if the end date 's not been done , has the price increase been done ?
14 ‘ The firm is so departmentalised , it gives you an opportunity to get to know people very quickly .
15 When your technique is good , it gives you the opportunity to create any type of situation on the court .
16 This is n't necessarily a good thing , but at least it gives you the opportunity to advance those big blocks of troops close to his army .
17 It gives you the opportunity , not only to concentrate on legal work , but also to learn about management and the way institutions work .
18 Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes .
19 So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese .
20 erm and then you can , I mean , well it gives you the opportunity to , you know bang in a bloody jazz band or whatever you wan na do in there somewhere
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