Example sentences of "stood a better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 2 | These were located mainly in rural areas and in smaller market towns where conservative practices inherited from the past stood a better chance of survival . |
| 3 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 4 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 5 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 6 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 7 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 8 | And Branson knew that Virgin stood a better chance of achieving that than either EMI or A&M had done . |
| 9 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |