Example sentences of "[adv] have [art] chance " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Very recently David Davis ( 1982 ) has made a scholarly contribution to this field and has been fortunate enough to have the chance to put theory into practice at Birmingham Polytechnic where under the leadership of Brian Watkins a specialist course of considerable merit and vision for P.G.C.E. students has been introduced .
3 When the House finally has a chance to debate the matter the Minister of State takes 40 minutes over his speech .
4 However , hundreds of people have already had a chance to view a model of the plan .
5 WHILE Craig Chalmers revealed in this paper earlier this week that he might just have a chance of being put on standby for the forthcoming British Lions tour , he is now more upbeat about the prospects of that happening .
6 Readers may soon have a chance to buy some of The Daily Telegraph .
7 AFICIONADOS of the BBC 's Test Match Trivia programme will soon have a chance to pit their wits in a contest of similar format .
8 A TEAM of Essex students will soon have the chance to go forward to the semi-finals of a national legal debating contest .
9 ( 29–30 September 1777 ) On 30 September Mozart finally had a chance to speak with the Elector , only to be told that there was no vacancy at court .
10 England finally had the chance of putting another team through the Test mincer — and they blew it .
11 Andy Partner and Paul Flowers , regular central defenders in the youth team , thus have a chance to impress in the friendly fixture at Chelmsford City on Saturday ( 3 pm kick-off at New Writtle Street ) with a view to being involved in the Cardiff and more especially the Carlisle clash .
12 Now , though , as the cute and fiery new single , ‘ My Aquarium ’ , is released , we finally have a chance to see if Drop Nineteens are worthy of all the fuss …
13 Once upon a time you used to have a five year planning period , and that has now disappeared , so we live hand to mouth , and the Finance Officer manages marvellously in juggling things round , but one can no longer plan as one used to , and therefore it 's rather sad really , because people no longer have the chance to develop things as they would wish to .
14 It 's not a bad place , but erm I think in common with a lot of other universities , well , all universities , some of the excitement , enthusiasm has gone , because people no longer have the chance to do what they would want to do .
15 So long as the boy was alive and had a chance of survival he was as much entitled to retain that chance as the others ; whereas in our problem it may be that the men who are cut away have no chance of survival at all .
16 ‘ Perhaps he still has a chance , ’ said a western diplomat in Pakistan , ‘ but it looks as though events have overtaken him .
17 In this condition its mobility is severely hampered , but it still has a chance of survival if its environment is benign .
18 ‘ It means Sam still has a chance . ’
19 ‘ Damon still has a chance to win the championship and that is good for us , ’ he said .
20 If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now .
21 It is not usual for the advisers of the Crown to draw people out of important work when they have hardly had a chance to do what they have undertaken .
22 As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do .
23 That earthly paradise , only sixty minutes gone , when Liam had still had the chance of growing up to be a man , Odette of growing old .
24 Now , I have n't totally had a chance to talk to Mr er , about that , but I would assume that means you er , and so it 's moving in the other direction if anything Mrs .
25 But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’
26 Only under a more plausible leader would it ever have a chance , particularly during a recession .
27 Now did you want the s did you ever have the chance to stay on at school ?
28 Back-in-form Glenavon are through from Group C ; they play Carrick who will still have a chance of leapfrogging Bangor .
29 ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion .
30 You may possibly have the chance of being marshal to a judge ; if so , of course jump at it .
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