Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adv] [adj] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you live in Oxford , in the City area of Oxford , you have a far higher chance of getting a home help , getting a place in an elderly person 's home , getting a meals on wheels , than anywhere else in the county , and between the different areas of the county there are vast differences in that . |
| 2 | Start off properly and you have a much better chance of being welcome year after year . |
| 3 | You have a much better chance of success next time because you will have learnt from your previous experience . |
| 4 | Well , for a pound you have a much better chance of a big win on the football pools than on horses , but that 's purely because of the odds offered . |
| 5 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 6 | I was disappointed that it could n't be me , but at least we have a very good chance with my husband . |
| 7 | Of course , there is a danger of demagogy , but we feel in Czechoslovakia , with its traditions of competence , that we have a much better chance than some other countries . |
| 8 | So with regard to these beings , the Chewong know that they are vulnerable to attack , but that if they take proper care in their day-to-day behaviour and avoid places where potentially harmful beings are known to live and set their traps , they have a fairly good chance of being healthy and fit . |
| 9 | New research shows that if penicillin is given early enough to patients with the deadly bacterial form of the disease , they have a much better chance of survival . |
| 10 | If the Roker captain can breath satisfactorily after training this morning , he has a very real chance of playing . |
| 11 | If it does , it has a very good chance of catching the gazelle for it is able to reach its maximum speed within a few yards , and then it is the fastest animal on four legs . |
| 12 | Does the Minister consider it fair that , if a child is born in East Anglia , it has a far better chance of survival than if it is born in Yorkshire or in my region , where we recently lost five intensive care cots ? |
| 13 | Corals which are collected by taking a reasonable amount of rock with them have a much better chance of being undamaged than those which are prised off the substrate . |