Example sentences of "the chance of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both for different , but similar , reasons have turned down the chance of participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in July . |
| 2 | You would n't offer them art if you did n't see the chance of slapping on the cost of paint as an extra . |
| 3 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 4 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |
| 5 | The chance of flying to the moon under one 's own power has a probability of 0 . |
| 6 | The chance of flying to the moon under one 's own power has a probability of 0 . |
| 7 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |
| 8 | The unusual violence was blamed by Lutheran church sources here on the frustration of a trainload of young people prevented from crossing the now-closed border to Czechoslovakia , and the chance of clambering into the West German Embassy in Prague . |
| 9 | YEOVIL TOWN captain Mark Shail was heartbroken last night over the rash moment which may cost him the chance of playing in the dream FA Cup tie against Arsenal . |
| 10 | If you ever get the chance of going to the catacombs in Rome you will see on the walls a very popular image of the cross shaped as an anchor . |
| 11 | Also , the trio have just been offered the chance of following in the footsteps of The Osmonds and The Jackson Five by allowing themselves to be made into a Saturday morning TV cartoon series . |
| 12 | Without any doubt ZIMBABWE captain Andy Ferreira 's men must count themselves unlucky to have missed the semi-finals , and with it the chance of appearing in the World Cup tournament in Scotland . |
| 13 | An account executive working on the business of a merchant bank might become so interested in financial matters that he moves over to his client 's advertising department , but as a general rule , the chances of rising to the top are greater in an agency . |
| 14 | For the average hernia operation which is done remember as cold surgery , not as an emergency , the chances of dying under the anaesthetic are vanishingly small . |
| 15 | What would be the chances of arriving at the principle of a constant coefficient of expansion in metals ( the notion that for a given metal there is a fixed relationship between amount of change of temperature and amount of change of length ) if the only data to hand concerning temperature and length were estimates based on unaided touch and sight ? |