Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few moments later and he would not have stood a chance . ’ |
| 2 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 3 | ( They will not have had the chance to mate with males from their own stock culture . ) |
| 4 | While Mr Fallon will probably not have had the chance to read the report , we think it unwise for him to dismiss it out of hand . |
| 5 | And that she 'll just have to take a chance tonight . |
| 6 | Then , likely as not , he would hardly have had a chance to open his mouth before the Collector would be off again . |
| 7 | You will probably have had a chance to practise with the hand-held mask at antenatal class . |
| 8 | The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side . |
| 10 | ‘ Without funds being raised he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 11 | Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 12 | If I 'd known that , I would n't have stood a chance . ’ |
| 13 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 14 | And you 're quite sure that while the car was down in Streatley , the thieves who I 'm after would n't have had a chance to take it and use it for their break-in ? ’ |
| 15 | You would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 16 | But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ? |
| 17 | If you do n't ever go there , you wo n't have had the chance of sampling their hot mussels . |
| 18 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 19 | By such means it could win trust and acceptance of ideas that would seldom have stood a chance when presented through public oratory . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll have seen parts of the world we would never have had the chance to visit otherwise , and we 'll have been a lot luckier than most . ’ |
| 21 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 22 | They would certainly have had no chance of financing their programme without large increases both in taxation and in the borrowing requirement . |
| 23 | He was making couples , choosing partners , arranging meetings in a café where they could all talk , all those men who never had had the chance to meet . |