Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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1 | But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters . |
2 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
3 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
4 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
5 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
6 | Now that the dust has had a chance to settle , certain incontrovertible facts about the way in which Retin-A works need to be taken on board by anyone considering using the product . |
7 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
8 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
9 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
10 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
11 | The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . |
12 | Notts ' new cricket manager Mike Hendrick thrust the 22-year-old seamer into the senior squad while Andy Pick nursed a shoulder injury , and claimed : ‘ The lad has got a chance of making it if he goes on working and improving . |
13 | Laura 's courage has provided the chance of life for a four-year-old American girl . |
14 | And now Tzanibey has seized the chance to defy you and poison it ? |
15 | The head has to take the chance and to trust that an opportunity will in the end turn out to have been well handled . |
16 | FORMER England batsman Bill Athey has rejected the chance of a move to Derbyshire . |
17 | Southend striker Brett Angell has rejected the chance to join second division leaders Blackburn Rovers in a £1 million deal . |
18 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
19 | She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well . |
20 | He knew then he 'd got a chance of winning . |
21 | From what I 've heard she 'd got no chance that lady ! |
22 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
23 | But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least . |
24 | The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up . |
25 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
26 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
27 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
28 | He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’ |
29 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
30 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |