Example sentences of "opportunity for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostrava , only an hour away , will also provide ample opportunity for shopping . |
| 2 | This can be kindly meant , but your hearing loss must not mean that you discuss matters that you would prefer not to discuss , solely because it gives an opportunity for conversation . |
| 3 | That night , they had plenty of opportunity for conversation , and here they had one of their most memorable encounters . |
| 4 | The club is a popular opportunity for conversation , refreshments and games playing . |
| 5 | The deployment of current resources within a coherent , unified service , the adaptation of the use to which off-site units are put , the mobilization of resources from within the special schools sector and the imaginative employment of in-service training each provide some opportunity for developments in the very immediate future . |
| 6 | There is considerable opportunity for transfer between one degree curriculum and another , at least until the end of the second year . |
| 7 | Some community organisations are concerned that Compacts might : a ) be a means of encouraging young people to leave school too early to perform menial jobs ; b ) be an opportunity for employers to recruit selectively without using proper procedures ; c ) allow discrimination according to gender , race and disability ; d ) discourage the development of different philosophies springing from different cultural backgrounds and points of view ; e ) develop an unchallenging , potentially exploited , workforce . |
| 8 | An opportunity for Suffolk |
| 9 | There will also be an opportunity for fellowship and a cup of tea after the meeting . |
| 10 | It was a splendid opportunity for Douglas Hurd to recall those long-lost Victorian values which the Thatcherite brand of Conservatives so ardently wished to revive . |
| 11 | The absence of the Lesothan men creates further opportunity for Lesothan economic advancement . |
| 12 | In other cases , the decrees seemed to provide an opportunity for insurance against other possible future decrees . |
| 13 | The window of opportunity for survival from sudden cardiac arrest is narrow , the best chance occurring when the emergency medical services are activated first so that a defibrillator can be brought in good time . |
| 14 | It is questionable , however , whether the provisions actually add to a victim 's opportunity for compensation and it has been argued that the procedure differs little from that required for any civil action except that the funds are preserved . |
| 15 | 'As you all know , this was to have been a happy occasion , an opportunity for members old and new to join together and indulge ourselves with history in pleasant surroundings , linked in our common interest by the traditions of the Circle . |
| 16 | An important feature of the Scottish Council 's work is the opportunity for members to exchange views with visitors and specialists . |
| 17 | An important feature of the Scottish Council 's work is the opportunity for members to exchange views with visitors and specialists . |
| 18 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
| 19 | Given alternative attractions this afternoon , though , we shall make sure this is not the only opportunity for members to contribute to the debate . |
| 20 | The dinner was a pleasant opportunity for members to catch up with each other 's news . |
| 21 | At best , these courses integrated the twin goals of relevance and continuity providing a set of learning experiences over 4 to 6 months which enabled several thousand NHS managers to have their first and , in many cases , only systematic opportunity for development . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , for spiritual recovery to have the best opportunity for development , it must be true that sufferers from any form of addictive disease would ultimately be best advised to avoid all substances and behaviours that may have an inappropriate mood-altering effect . |
| 23 | There was opportunity for maladministration in terms of both efficiency and peculation . |
| 24 | Citizenship should , it is suggested , be regarded not only as a burden , or even as a set of rights or entitlements , but also as an opportunity for self-fulfilment and a reciprocal relationship between citizens and the state . |
| 25 | It certainly continued to give opportunity for glory , for self-advancement , and for material gain ; in that respect it has not changed much to this day . |
| 26 | If anyone had been there , thought Dalgliesh , there was plenty of opportunity for concealment behind the hunks of concrete or in the crevices of the sandy cliff . |
| 27 | At an eve-of-poll rally in Taunton , Somerset , the Liberal Democrat leader urged voters to reject division and decline under the main parties and grasp an ‘ historic opportunity for change ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to provide the opportunity for change in the viewer , ’ declares George . |
| 29 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 30 | What with the new game of Guess the Election Date ( a thrill-packed pastime with no prizes ) and at long last the opportunity for change , we reflect on the last 12 years . |