Example sentences of "not have [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In general , parents will not have a chance to see the specimen paper until June 14 . |
| 7 | They planned that the next wave of new machinery would be installed in an area away from the shop-floor where engineers would try out working practices so that shop-floor workers would simply not have the chance to gain the upper hand . |
| 8 | Gavin Hastings was the nominated vice-captain on the tour , but he did not have the chance to lead . |
| 9 | The 90-pupil school in Reigate , Surrey , did not have the chance to assess him because he attended only three mornings in two weeks , she said . |
| 10 | Those handling the interviews did not have the chance to discuss their observations of the candidates till later that day . |
| 11 | In the course of our case studies , we found that programmers/analysts capable of working in certain specific software/hardware areas ( for example , IBM System 38 , PICK ) were extremely scarce , in some cases so much so that " nobody is training them any more " ( since high turnover rates meant they would not have the chance to amortise the training investment ) . |
| 12 | Linta did not have the chance to reply . |
| 13 | So the old faithful customers do not have the chance to compare the new rates with those currently being paid to them ’ . |
| 14 | On the by-elections , Langbaurgh strongly suggests that the Labour party will not have the chance to implement its half-baked proposals for a Scottish Assembly , as proposed by the Scottish Constitutional Convention — it would increase taxes , be a constitutional impossibility and lead to constant feuding between Westminster and Edinburgh . |
| 15 | ‘ Ordinary people do n't have a chance to leave . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am voting tactically because Labour does n't have a chance here , but the Liberal Democrats certainly did n't get my vote because of Paddy Ashdown . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't have a chance to get a briefing from Graeme but I did n't get one when I took over from Kenny Dalglish . |
| 18 | So keep the the plaster-spotted faces of the fanatics in your mind as you exercise , and you 'll laugh so much the wrinkles wo n't have a chance . |
| 19 | I did n't have a chance to succeed |
| 20 | ‘ The competition is well under way , so if we do n't get going now we really wo n't have a chance . |
| 21 | It did n't have a chance . |
| 22 | ‘ His fists were flying so fast , I did n't have a chance to tell him I have Aids . ’ |
| 23 | CROATIA 'S Goran Ivanisevic , winner of last week 's Stockholm Open , destroyed Frenchman Cedric Pioline 6–4 , 7–5 to reach the Paris Open last 16 yesterday and said : ‘ I was serving so good , he did n't have a chance . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll be sorry to leave , but I know that whatever I did today I do n't have a chance of playing at Charlton on Saturday , or the week after . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't have a chance , ’ said Kemal Muftic , spokesman and chief adviser to Bosnia 's Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic . |
| 26 | Topaz did n't have a chance to reply because Timothy Amsterdam had walked up to them and was staring at the marquis in blank amazement . |
| 27 | " Things wo n't have a chance to get worse and do n't worry . |
| 28 | It did n't have a chance ; not even a tiny chance of living . |
| 29 | But she did n't have a chance to look , for her mother 's hand struck like lightning across her face . |
| 30 | I did n't have a chance to prove that I 'm somebody as well , that I 'm not nothing . |