Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adv] [art] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 2 | There was just a chance , anyway , that she might stop it before it crashed against the arch . |
| 3 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
| 4 | If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day . |
| 5 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
| 6 | I excluded the whole of Scotland because she would have been a little too near home — even in Glasgow there was just the chance that someone might find her or she might bump into someone from home . ’ |
| 7 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 8 | There was also a chance that plants might be stolen and Collinson reported in January 1751 , ‘ … to my great loss , some prying , knowing people looked into the cases and out of that numbered 2 took the three roots of Chamaerhododendron , honey laurel , root of silver-leaved arum and the Spirea alnifolio … |
| 9 | There was also a chance to have a play around with Windows NT . |
| 10 | There was also the chance that the man himself would go for the test . |
| 11 | There was also the chance that I would recover from the madness . ’ |
| 12 | Secondly , there was also the chance that the commotion of the brief struggle might have attracted other human enemies , who might even then be closing in on him . |
| 13 | There was also the chance to see this baby alligator at close quarters , but not too close . |
| 14 | What she had meant was that there was absolutely no chance of her joining his lists of conquests . |
| 15 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 16 | There was still a chance they might get away with it . |
| 17 | There was still a chance to earn a place on the Olympic team ; the final place would be decided at the AAA Championships at Crystal Palace . |
| 18 | If the Prince could hold the wood , and the centre was somehow saved , there was still a chance . |
| 19 | Indeed , there was still a chance that , terrified they might lose a crucial test of confidence in the chamber that Democrats have controlled for four decades , the president 's managers on Capitol Hill would seek to delay the vote . |
| 20 | Since Félix was not going to oppose her wishes to meet Harry in London in July , then there was still a chance — however remote — that she could change Harry 's mind about the American girl . |
| 21 | Declaring that there was still a chance of reaching agreement to end the power struggle that is paralysing the country , Mr Khasbulatov said : ‘ Impeachment is the most extreme measure . |
| 22 | THE conservative arch-rival of Russia 's leader , Boris Yeltsin , yesterday backtracked on demands for the president 's impeachment and said there was still a chance they could reach agreement to end the power struggle that is paralysing the country . |
| 23 | But there was never a chance of a happy ending for Princess Diana and Charles . |
| 24 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 25 | What is more , given the disparity in size between the two economies , there was never a chance that in this particular waltz British economic interest would be able to take the lead . |
| 26 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |
| 27 | A ramshackle despotism encourages irresponsibility ; there was always a chance of success and it was the weakest of the conspiracies — that of 1820 — which defeated the government . |
| 28 | It was a good place to play : there was always a chance that you were going to transfer to a big West End theatre . |
| 29 | Skiers there said there was always a chance something would go wrong . |
| 30 | As there was always the chance that the swimmer 's faint light might be missed and he might go beyond the canoe , in the next phase ( two ) he turned and shone his torch shorewards . |