'creating the opportunity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an action of making something available that may be beneficial to someone else. For example, "The grant program was instrumental in creating the opportunity for low-income families to pursue higher education."
Each saw a sharp rise in business, thanks to Enron's collapse.Still, bid-and-offer spreads widened, says Mr Costas, creating the opportunity for the old business's return.
He noted that there was little overlap between the top advertisers at AOL and Time Warner, creating the opportunity to sell more to existing clients.
Then, last month, the director of the combined 19th-century and contemporary art department, Gary Tinterow, resigned from the Met to become director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, creating the opportunity to hire Ms. Wagstaff and to reorganize.
Or the 1986 decision to create personal pensions, flinging most of us into flimsy, unreliable, expensive savings schemes and creating the opportunity for the speedy abolition of final salary pensions.
And Jesse (Rozz Morehead), the good-time hostess at Gilley's, has brought a mechanical bull into the bar, creating the opportunity for a thrills-free, suspense-free ride-off between Bud and Wes.
Right now, the region is experiencing an economic boom, creating the opportunity to address the deep-seated political, economic and social problems that have spawned terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.
Now her case has reached the Texas Supreme Court, creating the opportunity for the first time for a state's highest court to determine who is entitled to make life and death decisions for premature babies.
"What we're finding is that the World Wide Web is creating the opportunity to have interactions with the employees of employers," said John Stauffer, Ceridian's senior vice president of marketing for tax operations.
Of course, Americans Elect could be wholly successful in creating the opportunity for a new, centrist ticket to emerge but still run into the difficult reality of convincing candidates of real stature and appeal to step forward and run against an incumbent Democratic president and the full force of a highly motivated Republican Party.
For its part, Dish said in a statement: "We remain confident that the Sprint board will share our view that the Dish proposal is superior by offering Sprint shareholders greater value with a higher price and more cash, while also creating the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a combined, and competitively unique, Dish/Sprint".
But many environmentalists say that because the president's energy plan is so weighted toward new production of electricity and petroleum, environmental consequences have been drawn into the spotlight as well, creating the opportunity for a broad public debate that did not exist before.
