Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] the chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their lawyers say the couple have been robbed of the opportunity to become a mother and father and the child has been denied the chance to nurtured by the ‘ these loving parents ’ . |
| 2 | Johnny Nelson , the British cruiserweight champion , has been given the chance to succeed where his Brendan Ingle stablemate Herol Graham failed earlier this year , and bring a world title to Sheffield — and with home advantage . |
| 3 | Sadly , Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and , I regret to say , the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Geoff Nichol , head of Darlington health authority , has been offered the chance to work on a special project looking at community care . |
| 5 | Would you have voted in favour of the sale of the house if you 'd been given the chance . |
| 6 | Dr Enid Starkie would have been given the chance to swat another Mistake in Literature . |
| 7 | But in an exclusive interview with Central South , Kevin Maxwell told our reporter Simon Garrett that his family should at least have been given the chance to buy the medals . |
| 8 | And I am certain he would love to have been given the chance to impress the NIBA selectors as they prepare to pick the side for next month 's senior championship in Dublin . |
| 9 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 10 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 11 | At this distance it is impossible to tell if Gert could have made more of his early life if he had been given the chance to make use of the ‘ creative ability ’ spotted early on by one of his helpers . |
| 12 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 13 | In the light of paragraph ( b ) the seller having a monopoly will be more likely to succeed if the buyer had been offered the chance of buying the goods , perhaps at a slightly higher price , on terms not including the exemption clause . |
| 14 | It 's also remarkable that the public have been given the chance to get into the debate early . |
| 15 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 17 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 18 | About two dozen have been given the chance to return to Middlebrook Mushrooms , Whitley Farm , near Selby , North Yorks , days after they lost their fight to take the firm to a tribunal . |
| 19 | TWO young Belfast girls have been given the chance to play one of the most sought after theatre roles of them all . |
| 20 | It is a tragedy that many children have been denied the chance to take these tests . |