Example sentences of "not [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trust Spittals not to miss a chance to get into the papers , thought Dexter with a snort . |
| 2 | Yet older people are either chopped or , worse , not given a chance . |
| 3 | Mr Cosic , who was not given a chance to defend himself , was charged with overstepping his authority by holding peace talks with the Croats . |
| 4 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 5 | It is obvious that the FLN [ the former ruling National Liberation Front ] had led our country into this dead end , and the FIS had not missed a chance throughout this campaign to deny that Islam is the opposite of human rights , the opposite of democracy … |
| 6 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 7 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 8 | We 've not had a chance for a word with Mrs Fitton yet . |
| 9 | She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now . |
| 10 | No communication has been sent to the British Government about European reference prices , so I have not had a chance to study those , but I pay full tribute to the improvement in productivity . |
| 11 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 12 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 13 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 14 | He 's not had a chance yet . |
| 15 | The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case . |
| 16 | It will be hardly different from B0 , the value in the material ; in the short space available the flux lines have not got a chance to spread . |
| 17 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 18 | He must not miss a chance when it comes through being preoccupied with something else . |
| 19 | she 'll not have much of an appetite , because that bit 's not working properly , and it 's not getting a chance to go through her |
| 20 | ‘ If one of our boys was good enough to play and was not getting a chance with Yorkshire , then surely another county would have taken him . |
| 21 | Er Carole Vorderman , she 's not getting a chance to do the figures . |
| 22 | Although pumping out water can bring problems if aquifers do not have a chance to recharge , groundwater is such an enormous resource that it would be unthinkable for us to stop using it . |
| 23 | SIZEWELL public inquiry will not have a chance to consider what everybody agrees is the most crucial safety issue affecting the design for the proposed pressurised-water reactor . |
| 24 | They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there . |
| 25 | In those circumstances , teachers do not have a chance of achieving the level of examination success that might be achieved in more favourable teaching conditions . |
| 26 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 27 | In general , parents will not have a chance to see the specimen paper until June 14 . |
| 28 | With the train rapidly bearing down on her she did not stand a chance . |
| 29 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
| 30 | ‘ The danger , ’ she says , a little tetchily , ‘ is not taking a chance . |