Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] have a chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opponents to the opt-out now have a chance to lodge objections to the Education Secretary . |
| 2 | England never had a chance ; Amiss , Randall and Wood scored a few , but in the end they fell 50 short . |
| 3 | ( 29–30 September 1777 ) On 30 September Mozart finally had a chance to speak with the Elector , only to be told that there was no vacancy at court . |
| 4 | In this way , short-handed teams still have a chance to win and the match is therefore meaningful . |
| 5 | ‘ Anything less than seven points could mean a play-off or indeed nothing at all because so many teams still have a chance . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It means Sam still has a chance . ’ |
| 7 | And because patients can get up and exercise right after the operation , the muscles never have a chance to stiffen up . ’ |
| 8 | The UN special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , has sought to halt the fighting and install a temporary governing committee , but the Najibullah regime has collapsed so fast that his increasingly frantic efforts never had a chance . |
| 9 | But for the first time in his eight months in office , Mr Kaifu now has a chance of pulling off a coup big enough to ensure his survival as prime minister . |
| 10 | ‘ Mark Morris had to make a good save late on from a snapshot by a defender , but Gary Bennett also had a chance to win the game for us at the end . ’ |
| 11 | Gary Lineker , Bryan Robson , Mark Wright and Pearce were Taylor 's previous captains but Platt now has a chance to stake his claim . |
| 12 | The thought never had a chance to become action . |
| 13 | But the Dons also had a chance to snatch victory when Clarke shot wide just after half-time . |
| 14 | However , with the immediate advent of the war , BOAC never had a chance to establish commercial operations on any scale , and quickly found itself used by the Air Ministry ( its overseeing body , also in control of the Royal Air Force ) for military transport duties and ferry and communication services . |
| 15 | Some US analysts , however , believe that because of the dire economic situation in the US , negotiations never had a chance . |
| 16 | With 158 still needed from the last twenty-two overs , the later batsmen never had a chance , perishing quickly is they threw the bat . |
| 17 | But Stewart never had a chance to say thanks . |
| 18 | In the corporation of London , for example , the fact that local elections were spread across the year ( with those for the sheriffs being in midsummer , for the lord mayor in September , and for the common councilmen in December ) , and were invariably fought out along party lines , meant that political passions seldom had a chance to cool down . |
| 19 | When the House finally has a chance to debate the matter the Minister of State takes 40 minutes over his speech . |
| 20 | ‘ Damon still has a chance to win the championship and that is good for us , ’ he said . |