Example sentences of "a chance [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 2 | Because you are always available , he never gets a chance to take any decisions while you are away . |
| 3 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 4 | Speak up , speak slowly ( it adds weight to your words and gives the judge a chance to take notes ) and try to speak in articulate sentences . |
| 5 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 6 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | At All Saint 's church there 's a chance to take part in the 800 year old Japanese tea ceremony … a mystic ritual that means it can take an hour and a half to have a cuppa . |
| 9 | The bell usually tolls for one of the big championship teams on cup day … this is cricket 's FA Cup … where the small teams the non leaguers get a chance to take on the big boys … the pros … |
| 10 | some local authorities have institutionalised unlawful practices such as having a second internal review before the case has a chance to go to a Review Board ; |
| 11 | Italy 's a really wonderful country , I wonder if I 'll ever get a chance to go back . |
| 12 | I wanted a chance to go and look in Vic 's shed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ said Evelyn , ‘ if you 'd like to swap with me and let me have a chance to go under the machines . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe she was just waiting for a chance to go abroad and wanted to be ready to leave at any time . |
| 15 | It is essential that a thorough selection trawl of new books is made , because important titles must be put into stock before they have a chance to go out of print , and because the first year or two after publication is the time that books are usually in most demand . |
| 16 | It is a chance to go in your mind to a special place , known only to you , where you can find the peace and serenity you so desperately need . |
| 17 | There again , that 's the best of both worlds ; I have a chance to go out and play stadiums and arenas and then I get to go home and go back to the way I was , although with a lot more experience under my belt . |
| 18 | ‘ Sunday meetings give the working man a chance to go racing . |
| 19 | BRADFORD missed a chance to go back to the top of the Stones Bitter Championship after being hammered 28–6 at home by Castleford . |
| 20 | Nina Miklin will be well known to many club members but anyone who has not been able to attend one of her talks will be pleased to hear they now have a chance to go to a choice of two workshops . |
| 21 | Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated . |
| 22 | To get a piece of the action , take up Britannia Sailing 's Fastnet Challenge , a chance to go from absolute novice to crewing one of their 20 yachts entered in the 1993 Fastnet race , in less than a year . |
| 23 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 24 | She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well . |
| 25 | she 'll not have much of an appetite , because that bit 's not working properly , and it 's not getting a chance to go through her |
| 26 | I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way . |
| 27 | She had offered Dora and Lyddy a holiday , a chance to go back to their families on their inland farms , but they had refused with dignity . |
| 28 | Windows give you a chance to go to town . |
| 29 | ‘ Until we 've had a chance to go through his papers . |
| 30 | And Mr I mean Mr says erm if you win it you can get a chance to go and see the Queen and smile at her home and wave . |