Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] opportunity for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our arrival was just in time to take off again , so that I had no opportunity for a rest , a meal or anything else . |
| 2 | The change of Manager in 1974 coincided with Local Government Reorganisation which provided an opportunity for Derek Hyde , a Lancashire man himself , to leave Coventry City Transport which was being absorbed into the West Midlands PTE and come to Blackpool . |
| 3 | Roger Green and Peter Katin gave delightful concerts to demonstrate the new instrument which provided an opportunity for graduates to come back to the University , meet old friends again and raise funds for the Foundation . |
| 4 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 5 | A moment later she had the opportunity for a closer look , as the trio came trooping into the sitting-room , Jake in front , the two females right behind . |
| 6 | In our network 's submission on the consultation document we welcomed the opportunity for user expertise to be used in this way if properly supported and paid for . |
| 7 | Even as late as last May we had the opportunity for restructuring a number of committees we flunked it . |
| 8 | In reporting a national conference in February 1988 , Earley ( 1988 : 64 – 5 ) reported : As for the future of annual governors ' reports and APMs , most participants agreed they provided an opportunity for governors , teachers and parents to work together . |
| 9 | They seized the opportunity for independence or at least a new bargain with Moscow — regardless of whatever views might be held by the silent masses . |
| 10 | Hired by the voyage , and at the mercy of the shipowners , they had no opportunity for combination at sea short of mutiny and only rare opportunity when on shore , and then only by petition and demonstration . |
| 11 | Now they had an opportunity for acceptance , for respectability , for an official place in the social structure — in exchange for certain compromises and relaxations in dogma . |
| 12 | Though they missed the opportunity for a rapid spurt in growth in the 1970s , they were spared the social and political strains of vulnerability to the subsequent cut-off in bank credit . |
| 13 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |
| 14 | The first of these summit meetings took place at Geneva in November 1985 ; it provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on the progress made at the arms talks and on regional issues . |
| 15 | Another possible explanation for the embrace of self-effacement is that it created the opportunity for exercising power without accepting responsibility . |
| 16 | When Nicholas Logsdail opened his gallery 's Bell Street extension at the beginning of the season , he created an opportunity for showing different artists in their own spaces . |
| 17 | Whilst he missed his brother 's company , he welcomed the opportunity for being alone with his thoughts . |
| 18 | In 1916 he saw the opportunities for music-hall pantomimists in the silent movies , and sought a mixed fortune in films and the stage . |
| 19 | Hickson , the Secretary of the Cambridge Board , proposed a shared responsibility for the scheme with the LEA as it offered an opportunity for the Board to extend its role and influence within its region — a new policy stance linked to the Board 's gradual withdrawal from its traditional national university extension role . |
| 20 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |
| 21 | It gave an opportunity for entrepreneurs to acquire the lands , workshops , fishponds and mines which the monks had worked , and to integrate them into the developing secular economy . |