Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] a [adj] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 2 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 3 | However , with their formidable array of entertaining and experienced batsmen they would look to have a distinct chance in two the one-day competitions . |
| 4 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 5 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 6 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 7 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 8 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 9 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 10 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 11 | Since the last war , however , strains of the gonococcus which produce fewer symptoms will have had a greater chance of being passed on before treatment could be instituted . |