Example sentences of "[verb] have a chance " in BNC.

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1 But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters .
2 Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job .
3 After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements .
4 Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves .
5 Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk .
6 Now that the dust has had a chance to settle , certain incontrovertible facts about the way in which Retin-A works need to be taken on board by anyone considering using the product .
7 Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent .
8 Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ?
9 Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute .
10 It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride .
11 ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question .
12 But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least .
13 The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up .
14 This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use .
15 When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . "
16 But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you .
17 He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’
18 ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything .
19 ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’
20 Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on .
21 She was n't going to risk being thrashed again in conversation , not yet , not until she 'd had a chance to recharge her worn batteries .
22 The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne .
23 She walked heavily upstairs again , relieved to have a chance to think through her options undistracted by David 's physical presence .
24 Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’
25 Then , likely as not , he would hardly have had a chance to open his mouth before the Collector would be off again .
26 You will probably have had a chance to practise with the hand-held mask at antenatal class .
27 And you 're quite sure that while the car was down in Streatley , the thieves who I 'm after would n't have had a chance to take it and use it for their break-in ? ’
28 You would n't have had a chance . ’
29 Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death .
30 But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ?
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