Example sentences of "had the chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there aspects of training that you find to have been missing or superficial now that you have had the chance of putting your technical skill to the test ? |
| 2 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 3 | Vast benefactions brought these men knighthoods or baronetcies or honorary degrees from universities they had endowed but not had the chance to attend . |
| 4 | If people have not had the chance to say the things they wanted to say then the sense of unfinished business can be overwhelming . |
| 5 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 6 | The twins , both 22 , though Kevin is 11 minutes older , pulled no punches in the welterweight bout and Steve tells Associated Press : ‘ If I 'd had the chance , I 'd have knocked him out . ’ |
| 7 | We feel privileged to have had the chance to be part of such a valuable learning experience . |
| 8 | There 's not many Maclean chiefs have had the chance ! ’ |
| 9 | He was making couples , choosing partners , arranging meetings in a café where they could all talk , all those men who never had had the chance to meet . |
| 10 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 11 | They have simply not had the chance at school to demonstrate whether or not they are actually able to go on with mathematics . |
| 12 | Everything you 've always wanted to know about Radio 1 but have n't had the chance to ask . |
| 13 | Only they have had the chance to view the Earth from this unique vantage point — until now . |
| 14 | Not once had he tried to take advantage of her and he 'd had the chance . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll have seen parts of the world we would never have had the chance to visit otherwise , and we 'll have been a lot luckier than most . ’ |
| 16 | The first time in weeks that Doyle had had the chance to lazily watch a football match , and almost immediately the phone goes . |
| 17 | If the test case had been successful , 200,000 motorists guilty of failing to supply samples would have had the chance to appeal . |
| 18 | I have never had the chance to put properly my side of the story . |
| 19 | Since interest rates started falling millions of homeowners have had the chance to remortgage their home and pocket lower interest deals . |
| 20 | During our investigations we have had the chance to keep a continuous record of more than 4,000 cards and letters sent by your section . |
| 21 | ‘ During our investigations we have had the chance to keep a record of more than 4,000 cards and letters ( sent by Amnesty International members in Britain ) . |
| 22 | Relatively few have had the chance to ‘ acquire ’ the language simply through contact with deaf people in their culture and community . |
| 23 | He had never had the chance . |
| 24 | She was reported as seeing it as a serious matter and thought the fine by the court was not enough : ‘ I 'd have chopped his hand off if I 'd had the chance ’ . |
| 25 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side . |
| 27 | I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests . |
| 28 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 29 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 30 | ( These include school leavers who 've never had the chance to make National Insurance contributions toward unemployment benefit and the long-term unemployed whose unemployment benefit is exhausted after one year . |