Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the DH is 500 ft , then at 700 ft/min it would be reached in approximately 2 minutes which would give you a reasonable chance of making visual contact . |
| 2 | At the very least job exhibitions give you a good chance to practise your interviewing technique . |
| 3 | This will give you a good chance to find out what your partner thinks and will allow the conversation to move into personal issues more gently . |
| 4 | Being a temp gives you a good chance to try out different types of work before committing yourself to a permanent job , and also to size up the different companies . |
| 5 | Dealing with Cystitis early gives you a greater chance of clearing it up . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll give you a sporting chance , ’ she said . |
| 7 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 8 | It throws into combat the best players from all corners of the country and , unlike the old final trial game , it gives you a second chance if you play badly first time out . |
| 9 | Give you a flipping chance to even enjoy it , do they ? ! |
| 10 | There 's no guarantee that you will hit the perfect shot , but using this procedure gives you a stronger chance . |
| 11 | Give you a little chance to talk and get , catch up with all your news or something I hope you 're not I find it is n't it ? sweet peas . |
| 12 | You 're in for a quiet relaxing time , giving you a welcome chance to appreciate a mood where you dream of past successes either in the competitive line or in social relationships . |
| 13 | It gives you a unique chance to work with adults and to be treated as an adult yourself . |
| 14 | My movements up to this had been quite natural , and if I could continue to make her think I was unaware of her presence , she would possibly give me a second chance . |
| 15 | Hearing that man made me glad I was 64 , which fact gave me a sporting chance of dying a natural death before the inevitable holocaust . |
| 16 | I also prefer it because I believe it is more sensitive than a link-leger and gives me a better chance of hooking fish . |
| 17 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 18 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 20 | A win for United would give them a good chance ; a draw would be tantamoumt to playing Russian Roulette and defeat would be good night . |
| 21 | Your plants will need time to become really well established to give them a better chance of surviving a harsh winter . |
| 22 | Look for anything that gives them a better chance of following the plot . |
| 23 | At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market . |
| 24 | Give them a better chance . |
| 25 | The issue now facing policy makers is whether the tribunals are equated with the county courts and legal aid extended to them or whether structural changes are made which enable unrepresented litigants to have a fair chance to present their cases in a manner which gives them a fair chance of success . |
| 26 | Campaigners say single mothers are in particular need of better childcare to give them a fair chance in the labour market . |
| 27 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 28 | Should the wielder attack and fail to score a hit , he may immediately re-roll the attack again , giving him a second chance to hit . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 30 | I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance . |