Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a good chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will offer up to £100,000 in support to Fife companies with ideas that are considered to have a good chance of success but lack resources needed to develop their products . |
| 2 | And I 'd have shot myself if we lost because I 'd wasted a good chance just before the goal . ’ |
| 3 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 4 | However , the death of Josef Stalin in March 1953 seemed to bring a better chance for talks and revolutionised the international situation . |
| 5 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 6 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 7 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 8 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 9 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 10 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 11 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 12 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 13 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 14 | Underneath are the shale and granite deposits which workers think stand a good chance of containing metals . |
| 15 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 16 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 17 | You 've got a good chance of seeing the rarer migrant butterflies here , as well as buzzards , kestrels , and even a hobby or peregrine falcon . |
| 18 | We 've got a good chance . ’ |
| 19 | They said we 've got a good chance now of prosecuting 'em . |
| 20 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 21 | But I think we 've got a good chance of getting into the play-offs and we 're capable of beating anyone on our day . |
| 22 | Yes , they 've got a good chance an'all , you know the a good chance have n't they ? |
| 23 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 24 | And I reckon that we 've got a good chance beating Sheffield Wednesday at football . |
| 25 | If they show you a picture , you 've got a better chance . |
| 26 | You should ask them both questions on the card , that way we 've got a better chance of getting them bloody card for yourself in n it ? |
| 27 | The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes . |
| 28 | For a songwriter/artist who the music publisher believes has a good chance of success , it is quite usual for there to be a royalty split of 70:30 in favour of the writer . |