Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months . |
| 2 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
| 3 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not going to name anyone in particular but you are all aware of those who have been to Australia this winter with the A team , and they have all got a chance of coming through this summer especially some of the young bowlers . ’ |
| 5 | Apart from perhaps winning a chance to record prizes worth more than £16,000 are on offer to the winner and runners up . |
| 6 | Trust Spittals not to miss a chance to get into the papers , thought Dexter with a snort . |
| 7 | Yet older people are either chopped or , worse , not given a chance . |
| 8 | Mr Cosic , who was not given a chance to defend himself , was charged with overstepping his authority by holding peace talks with the Croats . |
| 9 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 10 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |
| 11 | When the House finally has a chance to debate the matter the Minister of State takes 40 minutes over his speech . |
| 12 | Hooper , chosen ahead of David James because of his experience , could not be faulted for either of the Russians ' goals and desperately wants a chance to make the Anfield number one shirt his own . |
| 13 | It is obvious that the FLN [ the former ruling National Liberation Front ] had led our country into this dead end , and the FIS had not missed a chance throughout this campaign to deny that Islam is the opposite of human rights , the opposite of democracy … |
| 14 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 15 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 16 | We 've not had a chance for a word with Mrs Fitton yet . |
| 17 | She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now . |
| 18 | No communication has been sent to the British Government about European reference prices , so I have not had a chance to study those , but I pay full tribute to the improvement in productivity . |
| 19 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 20 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 21 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 22 | He 's not had a chance yet . |
| 23 | However , hundreds of people have already had a chance to view a model of the plan . |
| 24 | The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case . |
| 25 | It will be hardly different from B0 , the value in the material ; in the short space available the flux lines have not got a chance to spread . |
| 26 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 27 | He must not miss a chance when it comes through being preoccupied with something else . |
| 28 | she 'll not have much of an appetite , because that bit 's not working properly , and it 's not getting a chance to go through her |
| 29 | ‘ If one of our boys was good enough to play and was not getting a chance with Yorkshire , then surely another county would have taken him . |
| 30 | Er Carole Vorderman , she 's not getting a chance to do the figures . |