Example sentences of "opportunity for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only when the West is strong will there be a real opportunity for peaceful negotiations with the aim of freeing not only the Soviet zone [ i.e. East Germany ] but also the whole of enslaved Eastern Europe beyond the Iron Curtain . ’ |
| 2 | While ultimately hoping for a unified effort which reaches the smaller operator , he welcomes the global approach of the WTTERC — the sheer volume of the business produces , he says , enormous opportunity for environmental gain . |
| 3 | BAe said yesterday it welcomed the decision as a major opportunity for future business and an important step in European industrial co-operation . |
| 4 | International investment involves the added dimension of dealing in foreign currencies , providing the opportunity for additional profits . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ These changes mean that there is without doubt an opportunity for many funeral directors to recover VAT they once had to write-off . |
| 7 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 8 | The tour provided the first opportunity for many years for people to call openly for the restoration of human rights , legalization of political parties and the scrapping of the Tinkhundla ( chieftancy ) system [ see p. 38048 ] . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , both provide the opportunity for such attainments to be formally recognized . |
| 10 | The Village Cafe in the Shepherd 's Market , Mayfair , one of the oldest coffee bars in London , offers a special opportunity for such artists . |
| 11 | A new opportunity for such changes could come in the current review of the board by its chairman , Andrew Large . |
| 12 | A rare opportunity for young singers from Beverley Girls ' High School to study the art of madrigal singing under the direction of Terry Edwards , Director of Chorus , Royal Opera House . |
| 13 | Teaching did provide an opportunity for young people to move up the social scale . |
| 14 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |
| 15 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 16 | It should be an opportunity for young people to deepen their understanding of the world of work by observing , participating , questioning and perhaps even making mistakes . |
| 17 | In general , further energies went into consolidation , as the struggle for day-to-day survival offered little time or opportunity for political mobilisation . |
| 18 | In theory , customs and excise appointments were made by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh , but the fact that the commissioners ' recommendations had subsequently to be confirmed by the Treasury in London allowed plenty of opportunity for political intervention . |
| 19 | Comtek ‘ 92 can , it seems , still justifiably be billed as Russia 's main trade event : this year the show attracted over 70 hard currency-paying exhibitors , most of which were Western companies ; that so many companies are willing to pay $350 per square metre is testimony to the fact that the Russian market retains the interest of a significant portion of Western companies ; show organiser Crocus International says it invited 200,000 ‘ specialists ’ to the show , but in reality , Comtek has become a popular event in all senses of the word with most companies using the show as an opportunity for general exposure to the Russian market rather than as a means of generating many hard sales leads . |
| 20 | A paper which I and colleagues in Grampian prepared for Scottish General Medical Services Committee posed the questions does this present an opportunity for general practice to have greater influence in the provision of health care for our patients ? does it put general practice in the driving seat in helping to determine the range and quality of health service provision ? or might it constitute an intolerable administrative burden on the constrained resources of an increasingly cash limited primary care service ? |
| 21 | As a result , official intervention into their lives offered police an easy opportunity for general surveillance of the poor neighbourhoods in which they resided . |
| 22 | Those in favour of fundholding saw it as an opportunity for general practitioners to have a direct impact on access to and quality of secondary care , which they could now purchase on behalf of their patients . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will consider extending the opportunity for general practitioners in Northern Ireland to manage their own budgets immediately . |
| 24 | Construction of hydroelectric dams not only removes the opportunity for adjacent populations to interbreed , it also utterly changes the characteristics of the river , with siltation and often stagnation occurring upstream of the barrier . |
| 25 | The Polytechnic Diploma in Advanced Study has proved an extremely valuable opportunity for certain types of applicant , frequently already possessing a first degree . |
| 26 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 27 | Earned bonus is the most widely used form of financial incentive , because it most closely meets the objectives of an incentive scheme , which are : ( a ) To provide the opportunity for increased earnings in return for increased output . |
| 28 | Such situations allow little opportunity for innovative behaviour and may cause a great strain on the staff ; good planning and skilful leadership are required if innovative projects are not going to suffer too much . |
| 29 | The increasingly sensitive techniques now available offer an unparalleled opportunity for fuller research into the nature of homoeopathic potencies . |
| 30 | I am not in favour of long-term institutional care in hospitals , but the balance between the opportunity for decent health care for the elderly in our hospital services and the opportunity for other care has gone much too far . |