Example sentences of "[modal v] have [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the fact that it was chosen by lot , with the further provision that no one might serve on it more than two years in his life , it is clear that the Athenians of the fifth and fourth centuries intended that the council should have no chance of developing a corporate sense , which would enable it to take on an independent life , and wished it to be merely a fair sample of the Athenian people , whose views would naturally coincide with those of the people . |
| 2 | This last comment does n't mean that we can strap on our sixshooters and holsters , but rather the guns of the artillery are on call if we should have a chance to use them . |
| 3 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 4 | Before she should have a chance to wake and discover the edenwort , Henry got to work on the supper . |
| 5 | But now that the worst of the weather is behind us and the days are drawing out , you should have a chance to catch up . |
| 6 | Perhaps the others should have a chance of attracting his attention , and even of marrying him . |
| 7 | You mean that drama students who are graduating from training should have the chance to join Equity ? |
| 8 | This does not mean that I am now suggesting all children should have the chance of performing a scripted play in front of an audience ( indeed I doubt whether many young people are likely to be mature enough to cope with the sophisticated Stanislavsky approach to performance ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Andrea and myself , as a working-class woman and a Black woman , come from those groups , and feel we should have the chance to express our ideas as much as anyone else . ’ |
| 10 | He explained that it was a unanimous decision by Butcher , senior coach Alan Jones and second-team coach John Steele , that Maynard , a gifted but erratic player of whom the best has probably not been seen , should have the chance . |
| 11 | We all just felt that you should have the chance of a different kind of life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If the top players are interested in unification they will offer to help in clinics and such , because these children should have the chance to play for South Africa ’ — NGONDE BALFOUR ( SARFU development officer with responsibility for underprivileged areas ) . |
| 13 | readers should have the chance to read of the project 's progress . |
| 14 | Strongly opposing the maintenance of an essentially arbitrary general retirement-age , the Committee recommended that the test for engagement or retirement should be capacity , not age , and that all who could give effective service should have the chance to continue in work if they so wished . |
| 15 | Bremner felt strongly that workers should have the chance to explore their own personal agendas on sexuality in general , and not just focus on gay men and lesbians in particular . |
| 16 | As the first president of the faculty of community medicine ( now public health medicine ) his view on the role of the specialty remains pertinent — with ‘ specialists equally skilled in administration and epidemiology and with a broad view of social medicine and its research ’ we should have the chance of making the NHS more effective and efficient . |
| 17 | It appeared then , that the mining company cared that the children should have the chance of some education . |
| 18 | " I remember that year Jimmy telling us that we had black players in South Africa , that they were reasonably good and that he thought they should have the chance to become members , " Bland explained . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel he should have the chance to sort things out with the Accounts Commission before we discuss anything . ’ |
| 20 | That does n't mean to say they should n't achieve inside the home too , but it does mean that they should have the chance of doing both if they want it , and I think perhaps most do . |
| 21 | To be honest , we were n't sure we 'd sell all our tickets for the replay , but they all went by Thursday and if we get the same backing , we must have a chance . ’ |
| 22 | The Leader of the Opposition must have a chance to answer . |
| 23 | Zeta 's Lad beat Docklands Express , Bradbury Star and Royal Athlete that day and must have a chance on this sort of form . |
| 24 | THEY SAY nice guys finish second , in which case John Toshack must have every chance of winning the Spanish championship for Real Madrid . |
| 25 | Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here . |
| 26 | We seem to have been steadily moving away , in spirit and in the letter , from the findings of the famous Beveridge report on Broadcasting in 1949 which concluded that ‘ minorities must have the chance , by persuasion to turn themselves into majorities ’ ( para 259 ) and should not be denied access to the media because of their size . |
| 27 | ‘ You have been accused , and you must have the chance to defend yourself . ’ |
| 28 | And I 'll have a chance yet again , to talk to your mummies and daddies before yo you actually take your final exams . |
| 29 | Since you 're obviously a young man of ardent passions , perhaps I 'll have a chance to show you personally what I mean — and sooner than you think . |
| 30 | Well one of the obvious pluses is that I 'll have a chance to do what I want to do when I want to do it . |