Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRAINERS have shunned the chance to take on the brilliant miler Zafonic at Royal Ascot next week . |
| 2 | If it is too strong , the soil will be dry before the animals have had a chance to move out of it and they will die in the soil . |
| 3 | However , competent windsurfers do have the chance to join dinghy groups when they sail away to other beaches . |
| 4 | In the meantime the younger strawberries have had a chance to come through . |
| 5 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 6 | Green water of a consistency like pea soup is familiar to most pool owners , for even in well established pools this condition may occur for a few days during early spring when the water is warmed by the sun , so algae appears before the submerged oxygenating plants have had a chance to start growing again . |
| 7 | As can be seen from the illustration just given , the task of interpreting statutes gives judges the chance of expressing their own opinions as to social policy ; and , inevitably , their opinions do not always command universal assent . |
| 8 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |
| 9 | There 's not many Maclean chiefs have had the chance ! ’ |
| 10 | The players need to have a chance to settle down . |
| 11 | Edmund Mortimer kept his head , deployed his archers in what cover there was , massed his knights and men-at-arms on firm ground clear of the marsh meadows , and stood to receive the attack , braced to hold back his horsed companies until the bowmen had had the chance to loose from cover three or four volleys , and reduce the odds . |
| 12 | Weeks later at his trial such a person not infrequently produces an explanation of , or a defence to , the charge the truthfulness of which the police have had no chance to check . |
| 13 | If , however , you should fall asleep the finger immediately goes into your mouth and down your throat and wakes you before the cameramen have had a chance to snap their shutters . |
| 14 | Now President de Klerk and the ANC leadership are trying to tone down the outcome of the talks in order not to appear to have pre-empted a decision before the others have had a chance to have their say . |
| 15 | At the same time , UK paperbackers are contractually bound not to issue their paperbacks into the UK before the hardback editions of the same titles have had a chance to prove themselves in the bookshops . |
| 16 | Since interest rates started falling millions of homeowners have had the chance to remortgage their home and pocket lower interest deals . |
| 17 | BROOKSIDE bosses have refused a chance to talk about Liverpool 's image on Granada 's Up Front programme tonight . |