Example sentences of "[verb] the opportunity [to-vb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament will be given the opportunity to consider this issue again . |
| 2 | The public choice school again has the opportunity to explain this inconsistency . |
| 3 | Each student then has the opportunity to apply this experience in an individual research project supervised by a member of staff . |
| 4 | In the light of all that , ladies and gentlemen , the choice of a speaker for the Charles Darwin centenary was not difficult , and indeed I know that he welcomed the opportunity to give this lecture , not least I 'm sure because of the controversies and the general noise that have erupted once again over the issues of evolution , both in the academies of the civilized western world , and even in deepest Arkensaw |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wimpey Plant and Transport took the opportunity to celebrate this achievement on the occasion of the retirement of George Maisey as chief buyer . |
| 7 | I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to raise this issue and I am glad that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is present , because I know that he will listen with his usual thoughtfulness , great knowledge and understanding of the problems that I will enunciate . |
| 8 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 9 | And last but not least on these issues of planning which I think is very important , I 'm glad to get the opportunity to put this thing over to people ; I very much regret the way that planning laws have been weakened so that the local authorities do n't have the power they used to have . |
| 10 | Obviously our readers are among the best machine knitters around but this month we take the opportunity to demonstrate this fact . |
| 11 | ‘ The council already had the opportunity to buy this land and would n't . |