Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you going to sacrifice the chance to help Chester 's on the altar of your pride and independence , Virginia ? ’ |
| 2 | That got home to him He certainly was n't going to miss the chance of making a few bob out of someone with money to spend . |
| 3 | Teachers must be prepared not only to defend their subject but positively to advance its cause in a hostile climate if history is going to stand a chance of surviving . |
| 4 | She disliked travelling by road and was going to seize the chance to have the flat re-carpeted . |
| 5 | It was , though , and you 're going to have to learn to live with that fact , because you 're certainly not going to get a chance to put it right ! ’ |
| 6 | Luke Calder was n't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future . |
| 7 | I felt that this was a very brief phase and if I did n't cash in on it now , I was n't going to get the chance again . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , she 's not going to get the chance , ’ said Constance . |
| 9 | And now you 're not even going to get the chance to stay overnight . ’ |
| 10 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 11 | I do n't believe that I am really going to have the chance to be in this movie . |
| 12 | In the past the temptation to gallop across the hallowed Cowdray turf , which so many of them were not going to have the chance to play on , had been too much for the teams . |
| 13 | And the policeman wanted to check his facts before deciding to take a chance on a long shot . |
| 14 | Montana said : ‘ Steve and the team are playing well so they are not going to take a chance of throwing me in unless they have to . ’ |
| 15 | I was giggling there 's a big fat boy was going to take a chance with this toffee bar , you know , super Sandra ! |
| 16 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 17 | I 'm not giving Garry a chance to skip off again . ’ |
| 18 | You know it will be your turn to talk in a few minutes , so you can put all your energy into listening rather than trying to spot a chance to throw in your contribution . |
| 19 | From a kneeling position , he turned and doused the oil lamp hoping to reduce the chance of any embarrassment changing Molly 's mind at the last minute . |
| 20 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm in my fourth season as a panel referee in the Conference , so I 'm hoping to get a chance in the summer , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I was hoping to get the chance to see the new Beethoven opera . |