Example sentences of "has [verb] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the gate voltage is clocked very quickly ( at tens of megahertz ) , the negative-going edges of the clock pulse produce depletion , and the positive-going edges ( which restore the previous status quo ) arrive before the surface charge has had a chance to confuse matters . |
| 2 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 3 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 4 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 5 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 6 | Now that the dust has had a chance to settle , certain incontrovertible facts about the way in which Retin-A works need to be taken on board by anyone considering using the product . |
| 7 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
| 8 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
| 9 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 10 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
| 11 | Notts ' new cricket manager Mike Hendrick thrust the 22-year-old seamer into the senior squad while Andy Pick nursed a shoulder injury , and claimed : ‘ The lad has got a chance of making it if he goes on working and improving . |