Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | United were on top but it was a scrappy game , full of fouls as both sides tried to gain some sort of control ; one touch football as I say , a lot of misplaced passes and a lot of fouls , although United had a chance in the fifteenth minute when Martin Foyle almost headed home Paul Simpson 's cross from the right at the near post . |
| 2 | You know it will be your turn to talk in a few minutes , so you can put all your energy into listening rather than trying to spot a chance to throw in your contribution . |
| 3 | As one of McLaughlin 's respondents , who had been caring for her mother for seven years , pointed out : ‘ Well that really is a nonsense because the amount it is at the moment compared to anybody that 's had the chance of a full-time job , you 're talking of £24 as opposed to a job of about £98 ’ ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 48 ) . |
| 4 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 5 | Sor de Naves , here with his brother , had also bowed to Primaflora at her table and had taken the chance , stopping Nicholas , to congratulate him on his marriage . |
| 6 | And I was thrilled and honoured to get the chance to help launch this magazine . |
| 7 | In some cases ( for instance distress sales by receivers , in situations of insolvency ) both parties may know there is a doubt as to title but want to take the chance anyway . |
| 8 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |