Example sentences of "there [was/were] a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , with this morning 's news , it looked as though there were a chance . |
| 2 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 3 | Alpha males were consistently friendlier than others towards male infants but were particularly nice if there was a chance that the infant was their own . |
| 4 | Tony offered to make breakfast , an event so rare that there was a chance parliament would reconvene at Þingvellir . |
| 5 | There was a chance it might grow into the international peacekeeper its founders had wanted . |
| 6 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
| 7 | But if he survived the storm , there was a chance that he could reach the President ahead of Louis , men . |
| 8 | The producer of the programme , Jack Barton , felt that ‘ if the viewers could accept Nina and her disabilities , there was a chance of chipping away at some of the old prejudices that stand to prevent mentally handicapped people from being accepted in the community . ’ |
| 9 | Then , of course , if Rose Pratt were to leave because of her rheumatics , and she being forty-five , there was a chance that Jane would move upwards . |
| 10 | Colleague solidarity counted for little when there was a chance for one of the few organizational carrots — that of promotion . |
| 11 | You had to know your Instruction Book very well , because if you locked someone up and they got away with it , next day in court , there was a chance that you might be deemed excessive in your law and of course then you were on your own . |
| 12 | So there was a chance that fusion , which would derive its energy from deuterium , an isotope of hydrogen and a constituent of ordinary water , could come along and render fission redundant . |
| 13 | I won the U-Bix Copiers massive ten-man race at Birmingham , so I asked Frank Dick if there was a chance for me to get in the relay team , which had n't been announced with the main selections . |
| 14 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 15 | There was a chance , of course , that he would be refused entry , but he did n't think so . |
| 16 | There was a chance they would try to rush him , but it would take a fraction of a second to release his grip on the open clothes-peg . |
| 17 | There was a chance of a place on the Nursing Times Open Learning conversion course , but I would have to fund myself . |
| 18 | He made it clear that this was his target when he said yesterday : ‘ Put it this way , if there was a chance of winning the championship and I did n't think I might just do it , then I would n't be normal , would I ? |
| 19 | I asked him if he thought there was a chance of this . |
| 20 | People who knew us well before we married did n't think there was a chance of it working . |
| 21 | THERE WAS a chance that Power Of Dreams would have burned out by now . |
| 22 | She was easily distracted by any noise , particularly if there was a chance it was food or another bird calling , and this sometimes made it difficult for me to make her concentrate on what I thought she should be doing . |
| 23 | I was just about to go round and ask Night Home Sister if there was a chance of your being called early . ’ |
| 24 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
| 25 | There was a chance excess of boys in the regulated group . |
| 26 | No one had the Art Room , the Science Lab , the Handwork Room , the Staff Common Room or the Headmaster 's Study , though there was a chance someone would one day . |
| 27 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 28 | ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later . |
| 29 | He thought and then said easily , " She was wondering whether there was a chance he might ask for a transfer now that Howarth has been in post a year . |
| 30 | If there was a chance of real money he might be tempted … |