Example sentences of "chance of [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 2 | you know er e so even , even that can be quite difficult , but on the other hand you know there 's probably more , more chance of creating something positive . |
| 3 | But there was little chance of discovering who had killed him without help . |
| 4 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 5 | Literacy campaigns push back the boundaries of ignorance and give people more chance of controlling their own destiny . |
| 6 | But if they backed Sutton at least they stood a chance of controlling him — even if he had turned out to be , as some thought , a bit of a duffer . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 8 | Becky stood a good chance of saving herself but it 's believed she may have perished trying to help Emma , higher up on bales . |
| 9 | Like Herbert , however , he suffered from ‘ aguish distempers ’ ; his doctor advised that the only chance of saving his life was for him to travel overseas in order to escape from the Cambridge climate and as a respite from his studies . |
| 10 | By the next election , the lot of the Tottenham poor will have got worse , and the chance of alleviating it through economic growth will have receded . |
| 11 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 12 | As legal aid is available for appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal , the applicant has a chance of pursuing his unfair dismissal claim rather than facing the prospect of bringing a negligence action against the adviser . |
| 13 | If he did finally decide , after all , this was n't the job for him , that snide comment should go some way to ensure that Lorrimer stood no chance of succeeding him as Director of Hoggatt 's . |
| 14 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 15 | Defeat also robbed Edberg of the chance of regaining his world No 1 ranking — which he would have done if he had won this final major tournament of the year . |
| 16 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 17 | I pushed as hard as I could but it was obvious there was no chance of passing him . ’ |
| 18 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 19 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 20 | George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom . |
| 21 | Independents provide almost identical products for lower prices and motorists should not be denied the chance of buying them . ’ |
| 22 | Any chance of buying them all a pair of slippers each ? |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Although he was by no means a radical , he felt that the government 's best chance of maintaining its authority was to give more ground — literally — than it was promising to do . |
| 25 | Authority figures who abuse their power are , of course , doing so because they have received that sort of abuse themselves ( and in receiving have also learned how to give abuse ) and perhaps because they perceive others as a threat : ‘ I will dominate you before you have any chance of dominating me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's your only chance of knowing your family , ’ he said complacently . |
| 27 | Predictably , he wanted above all else to be an actor but , when he had the chance of realising his ambition by working overseas , for some reason the Home Office refused an exit permit . |
| 28 | Goodness knows I 've got only a bare chance of catching her , though . ’ |
| 29 | But these will be the veritable monsters ; a small , compact shoal of double-figure bream which have to be located with absolute precision before we stand any chance of catching them . |
| 30 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |