Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 2 | Powell only has a remote chance of playing , for Reilly 's squad has retained its shape and strength . |
| 3 | If we apply the yardstick of affection and respect to all our dealings with the elderly and they feel this in everything we say to them , most of the small problems which are bound to arise when we are living together stand a reasonable chance of solution . |
| 4 | This inspired a mini revival by the Quakers and John Weldon hit the post at the other end , with Peter Lentinue following up only to put a simple chance wide of the post . |
| 5 | Although they might be observed by gamma-ray detectors on satellites or balloons , it would be difficult to fly a detector large enough to have a reasonable chance of intercepting a significant number of gamma-ray photons from one explosion . |
| 6 | The skeleton of all echinoderms except the sea cucumbers is a relatively strong assembly of calcite plates ; the animals are built from an interlocking mosaic of such plates , and mostly the skeletons are rigid enough to have a high chance of fossilization . |
| 7 | He 's already had a few chances , but his time will come … bank on it . ’ |
| 8 | Although bargaining is often very tough you 've always got a better chance if you know with whom you are dealing — it helps if you 've had the odd meal or drink together or a game of squash . |
| 9 | Afterwards he dismissed the defeat as no more than ‘ irritating ’ and said he still had a good chance of winning the match . |
| 10 | ‘ If we win this game then we still have a good chance of qualifying from this group . |
| 11 | Good , that means we still have a good chance . ’ |
| 12 | Queen 's , who lost to Collegians yesterday still have a mathematical chance . |
| 13 | Bob Tistall also has a good chance , but it 's Dixton House everyone is talking about . |
| 14 | She also has a genuine chance of succeeding Troke as a Commonwealth Games gold medallist , and may also make a challenge in Moscow in April for the European title , which Troke has won twice . |
| 15 | A man with a poor employment history , who has lost several jobs and experienced intermittent phases of unemployment , has a considerably raised probability of becoming depressed when he is again made redundant ( Eales , 1985 ) , but will also have a raised chance of being near the top of an employer 's list for redundancy in so far as it is the policy of many employers to exercise a ‘ last in first out ’ policy . |
| 16 | Most experts advise that if you have made up your mind to stop smoking , you will probably stand a better chance of being successful if you can go ‘ cold turkey ’ — in other words , stop smoking all at once . |
| 17 | This also gives a good chance of having both sexes present . |
| 18 | Applicants clearly have a better chance of obtaining accommodation quickly if willing to accept a dwelling in one of the main settlements , and this in turn may be detrimental and cause long journeys to work . |
| 19 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England ! |
| 20 | Hall has not played for England since , but now has a strong chance of a comeback . |
| 21 | The public now has a better chance of listening to treasures such as the massive 40-cm 78-rpm discs cut during the Nuremburg Trials , or the 40 hours of tape recorded during the 0z trial . |
| 22 | The visitor now has a unique chance to see these works together , as well as tracing the development of an idea from Canova 's initial pencil sketch to the bozzetto or model and then through to the finished marble and second version of the marble . |
| 23 | With a record order book , it now has a slim chance of starting to repay a bit of the $13.5 billion that it has received in government subsidies . |
| 24 | Deutsche once thought about bidding , thought not , and now has a last chance to think again . |
| 25 | He 's since made a full recovery and now has a realistic chance of becoming Lotus 's first world champion since Mario Andretti . |
| 26 | Mr Mayhew 's costs , well into seven figures , were funded by Cazenove , which now stands a good chance of recouping them from tax-payers . |
| 27 | All of these felt able to argue that the Serbs had already achieved most of their war aims , and now had a good chance of hanging on to them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 30 | His public standing rose by 18 points in public opinion polls immediately after Guzmán 's capture , and analysts believed that government-sponsored candidates now stood a good chance of commanding a majority in the Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) to be elected on Nov. 22 [ see p. 39048 ] . |