Example sentences of "they have [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'ud be worse than useless telling them she thought the Cap'n 's slave had rights , needed care and attention and … and … she 'd better speak out before they 'd a chance to ask awkward questions ! |
| 2 | I have given my third and fourth preferences to candidates who , if not exactly " worthless " , know as well as I do they have no chance of being elected . |
| 3 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 4 | She remembered hesitating , choosing , picking the biggest and bluest cornflowers , and him looking up from his planting and saying quietly , ‘ If you pick the ones as are n't quite open yet , they 've a chance of lasting longer , maybe . ’ |
| 5 | Oxford were far from their best and they 've a chance for another warm up tonight … |
| 6 | Oxford were far from their best and they 've a chance for another warm up tonight … |
| 7 | Harry Short rarely brought his horses south when they had no chance of winning and , on all known form , Heraldic was outclassed in this race . |
| 8 | He 's selected to defend three soldiers who refused to fight in a battle they had no chance of winning . |
| 9 | On 20 February , you published my letter , which proposed that Labour and the Liberal Democrats should each withdraw from 50 seats that they had no chance of winning , and encourage their supporters to vote for the other party . |
| 10 | He re-visits the Copella fruit juice farm in Suffolk , the business he told the owners to sell a year ago because they had no chance of making money . |
| 11 | They had no chance of avoiding it . |
| 12 | They had been told they had NO chance of a refund after Tjolle declared himself bankrupt , even though he removed £400,000 from the company before it collapsed . |
| 13 | As for the militias , however zealous and heroic , they had no chance of triumphing over the Nationalist armies . |
| 14 | The remaining three aircraft , seeing the intense opposition put up by the Harbour defences and no longer having the advantage of surprise , realised that they had no chance of entering the Harbour without being hit . |
| 15 | THE combined might of Hollywood 's top tough guys Sylvester Stallone , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis last night found one enemy they had no chance against — the British climate . |
| 16 | All the commentators said they had no chance , except Bob Hawke the Prime Minister , who of course lived in Canberra and had to say that , and me , former tipster for The Sydney Morning Herald and occasional commentator and writer on the game . |
| 17 | They had no chance — perhaps they had no chance from the beginning . |
| 18 | They had no chance — perhaps they had no chance from the beginning . |
| 19 | ‘ They were virtually left to fend for themselves , and , sadly , they had no chance to make an impact . |
| 20 | Thus they had a chance actively to project onto me whatever ‘ wickedness ’ they had in their minds . |
| 21 | The Macleans on the beach took fresh heart ; they were still outnumbered , but at least they had a chance . |
| 22 | The whole squad was eager because they all thought they had a chance of being involved . |
| 23 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 24 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
| 25 | Then he would ask the class if anyone had an answer , and before they had a chance to reply he would add " Mahaddie and I have arrived at this conclusion " . |
| 26 | If there were rumours concerning herself and the new medical officer she wanted them quashed before they had a chance to spread . |
| 27 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 28 | In 1973 , the board used the public outcry over leaked reports of proposed cuts in the network ‘ to press for a higher level of investment , which they now thought they had a chance of being granted ’ ( Pryke and Dodgson 1975 : 23 ) . |
| 29 | Because I do n't think they had a chance of getting in to vote |
| 30 | Well they must of thought they had a chance |