Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it , this offers a potential bidder the opportunity to acquire a complete portfolio of assets at a discount to their value by taking over the trust by buying up all its shares . |
| 2 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 3 | This meeting welcomes the decision of the CLE to conduct a comprehensive review of its admissions and assessments procedures . |
| 4 | This meeting welcomes the decision of the CLE to conduct a comprehensive review of its admission and assessments procedures with the involvement of the CRE . |
| 5 | Phonetics and Phonology : — An extension of the core course to include a detailed consideration of two of the following topics : Allophones and allophonic transcription , with reference to dialectal varieties of English ; further work on supra-segmental features ; the nature of orthography ; introduction to acoustic phonetics . |
| 6 | The two final categories call for no comment at this stage beyond the fact that the fiscal evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of husbandmen did actually have less than £10 worth of personal estate ; the £10-£99 group looks like an intrapolation to accommodate a broad spectrum of well-to-do peasants ( including yeomen ) , master craftsmen and small-time merchants . |
| 7 | The local Soprintendenza in charge of archaeology in the Salerno region hopes to find the money to conduct a systematic excavation of the villa . |
| 8 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 9 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 10 | A particular feature of such a view of what is just is that any attempt to translate it into practice must begin by favouring the weakest and the least advantaged , since these are the people least likely to have the opportunity to enjoy an equal share of what we have , and are thus most in need of help . |
| 11 | So , if we are concerned with what constitutes a just allocation of resources , my prescription , at the very least , would call for policies aimed at ensuring , as far as possible , that everyone had an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net welfare of society . |
| 12 | It follows that a just society must set its policies and write its laws to ensure that everyone , beginning with the least advantaged and most vulnerable , has an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net resources allocated to health . |
| 13 | Pop can be sufficient intoxication to induce a different state of being , other than the one in which you exist . |
| 14 | Lack of communication and the inability to see a differing point of view are cited as being the main causes . |
| 15 | The lucky denizens of East Anglia are being given a rare opportunity to see a magnificent selection of 16th century drawings loaned form the British Museum 's great collection , which is only occasionally exhibited to the general public . |
| 16 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 17 | The direction of your movements should always be towards the heart to encourage a good flow of blood , and therefore nutrients , to the part being treated . |
| 18 | The aim of the research is to help those with responsibilities for educational provision to meet a significant challenge of the 1990s , namely : to establish systematic and credible systems for assessing the quality of schooling and thereby to improve the learning opportunities of all young people . |
| 19 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 20 | We are using this as an opportunity to try an alternative method of staffing . |
| 21 | She could have laughed at her husband 's struggle to hide a strange mixture of emotions . |
| 22 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 23 | This meeting urges the CLE to accept an independent review of all its relevant decisions and procedures in consultation with the CRE , and to award all CLE students who believe they have been discriminated against on racial grounds or otherwise treated unfairly , a deemed pass , after consultation with the independent review body . |
| 24 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | North Korea 's willingness to accept a phased withdrawal of US troops from South Korea marked an apparent departure from its previous insistence upon their immediate removal . |
| 26 | The women 's resistance movement was inhibited by its own willingness to accept an undervalued estimate of women 's work , whatever the actual work process . |
| 27 | They are usually " top down " decisions taken by nurses at district or unit level which , in terms of the workforce , may be about deciding how many nurses it is possible to " squeeze out of a budget or how to negotiate around a budget to obtain a particular number of nurses . |
| 28 | The competition , sponsored by Fina plc , challenges children to create a picture of their local environment using paint , crayons , collage or photography to provide a visual record of how their neighbourhoods shape up environmentally . |
| 29 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 30 | which seemed to consist mainly of abusing Asquith , were symptomatic of the party 's inability to discover a real sense of direction . |