Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | The Egyptian had taken a chance , and it had paid off . |
| 5 | Pat and Steven have got the chance to do that tomorrow . |
| 6 | TRAINERS have shunned the chance to take on the brilliant miler Zafonic at Royal Ascot next week . |
| 7 | If it is too strong , the soil will be dry before the animals have had a chance to move out of it and they will die in the soil . |
| 8 | However , competent windsurfers do have the chance to join dinghy groups when they sail away to other beaches . |
| 9 | In the meantime the younger strawberries have had a chance to come through . |
| 10 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 11 | Southend striker Brett Angell has rejected the chance to join second division leaders Blackburn Rovers in a £1 million deal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Laura 's courage has provided the chance of life for a four-year-old American girl . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The daughter of Bustino appeared to have no chance at halfway on that first outing , since she was well in arrears of the front-running hot-pot Hawker Hunter . |
| 16 | She preferred to be left alone to handle her problem with Silvia — at least until Silvia had had a chance to keep her word . |
| 17 | As the couple turned away , the wife was grumbling that her husband had missed the chance of what they now considered to be the best prospect . |
| 18 | Green water of a consistency like pea soup is familiar to most pool owners , for even in well established pools this condition may occur for a few days during early spring when the water is warmed by the sun , so algae appears before the submerged oxygenating plants have had a chance to start growing again . |
| 19 | Minutes later , at the other end , Roy Gordon failed to accept a chance in front of an open goal . |
| 20 | The head has to take the chance and to trust that an opportunity will in the end turn out to have been well handled . |
| 21 | As can be seen from the illustration just given , the task of interpreting statutes gives judges the chance of expressing their own opinions as to social policy ; and , inevitably , their opinions do not always command universal assent . |
| 22 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 23 | From a kneeling position , he turned and doused the oil lamp hoping to reduce the chance of any embarrassment changing Molly 's mind at the last minute . |
| 24 | He would wait another couple of years , he told himself , until Grégoire had had a chance to catch up , and was more confident . |
| 25 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |
| 26 | There 's not many Maclean chiefs have had the chance ! ’ |
| 27 | Knowsley SSD research and development officer Joe Blott referred to community care as the ‘ great unknown ’ , and like many of his colleagues elsewhere he is reserving judgement until the financial implications of the policy have had a chance to play themselves out in practice . |
| 28 | Responsibility for drafting the bill and printing is borne by the Member although financial assistance is given to the first ten members and drafting assistance is given to any member whose bill appears to have a chance of becoming law . |
| 29 | But the result no longer has a bearing on the National Division Two relegation situation after Morley beat Newcastle Gosforth on Saturday to go clear of trouble , while West have forfeited the chance to go up to National Division One as champions , settling for second spot and promotion . |
| 30 | The players need to have a chance to settle down . |