Example sentences of "any chance of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 2 | Only by propping it up , and cleaning it up ( and in the process uniting with it ) , was there any chance of stability . |
| 3 | Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed . |
| 4 | Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street . |
| 5 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 6 | Team Costa Rica were openly demoralised and reduced to tears by their disqualification and Cafe Britt had any chance of success stolen from them with the retirement of an injured team member . |
| 7 | These will certainly be needed to clear the bowel of candida , but it is also necessary to treat the vagina with fungicidal pessaries , and the intervening skin with cream or ointment if there is to be any chance of success . |
| 8 | ‘ You really have to be an expert to have any chance of success . |
| 9 | It concerns certain members of this class , four to be precise , but it will , if it is to stand any chance of success , require the support of every one of you , of every one in the school , in fact . |
| 10 | Education , and the participation of the community are crucial if schemes are to have any chance of success . |
| 11 | However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation . |
| 12 | On very early model helicopters this was probably the only method which stood a any chance of success , but only just ! |
| 13 | Moreover , whatever the course adopted , it would have to receive the blessing of Germany 's traditional enemy , France , for it to have any chance of success . |
| 14 | On these grounds the Wolfenden Committee decided that the abolition of prostitution was not something that it ought to recommend , or that if it did , could have any chance of success . |
| 15 | Only during the regime of Edmund Grindal did the Puritan reformers stand any chance of success , but Grindal was quickly suspended and his successors , Whitgift and then Bancroft were intolerant of them . |
| 16 | ‘ If I thought I would have any chance of success , I probably would , ’ she said sarcastically . |
| 17 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 18 | Warning and volenti would not appear to have any chance of success in this case . |
| 19 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 20 | Any chance of conversation was not to be missed . |
| 21 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 22 | At first they seem too creased to give the butterfly any chance of survival . |
| 23 | Coetzer must draw that sting to stand any chance of survival on Saturday . |
| 24 | Only a failure on their part to contest all the events will give the youngsters of Lagan Valley any chance of survival . |
| 25 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 26 | My general view on this matter , as a suitably humble outside observer , is that the student of modem sediments pays too much attention to the way these sediments are laid down , their form and composition , but not enough attention to the question of whether or not they stand any chance of preservation for the stratigrapher of tomorrow . |
| 27 | A high wall bars any chance of escape to the left and a frosty beech hedge borders the alley to the right . |
| 28 | These young men jumped at any chance of work during this time . |
| 29 | To make matters worse any chance of ventilation had been stopped with the use of many pairs of tights or balls of newspaper stuffed into every hole , nook or cranny . |
| 30 | The most impressive contemporary tribute to the idea of enlightened despotism , therefore , is the number of idealists who accepted that only through this form of government had their ideals any chance of realization . |