Example sentences of "stand a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecom says that selling a service in which the equipment is in the company 's own offices stands a better chance of success . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the recipient of this altruism stands a better chance of survival and , more importantly , its genes stand improved possibilities for replication and expansion . |
| 3 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 4 | Mr Mayhew 's costs , well into seven figures , were funded by Cazenove , which now stands a good chance of recouping them from tax-payers . |
| 5 | DROPPED by Labour for his extremist views , Nellist , 39 , stands a good chance of embarrassing the party by securing re-election in his own right . |
| 6 | The Franks report cost £60 000 and stands a good chance of recovering some of that cost through sales of the report . |
| 7 | We have SO MANY GREAT PRIZES to give away , everyone stands a good chance of winning something ! |
| 8 | The president stands a good chance of surviving multi-party elections . |
| 9 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 10 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 11 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 12 | As long as the basic construction of NiCad batteries has n't changed , I can see no justification for complete discharge and agree that it stands a good chance of being harmful . |
| 13 | There is a clear need for a population-orientated strategy to complement and reinforce policies aimed at local and national economic restructuring , but , as is argued further in the next chapter , if such an approach is to stand a good chance of success much more attention must be given to the improvement of data sets suitable for monitoring population change at regional and urban scales and to the study of the causes and consequences of internal migration . |
| 14 | Perhaps the high-risk individual needed a trouble-free birth in order to stand a good chance of avoiding schizophrenia . |
| 15 | As the game was on a Monday , Orient insisted on a kick-off at 4.30 , to stand a better chance of a good gate . |
| 16 | Readers may have received mail shots with the Barclaycard logo suggesting that they stand a good chance of winning a six figure sum of money and a car in a prize draw . |
| 17 | Anecdotal evidence suggests that British companies , which in theory stand a good chance of winning public contracts , are finding in practice that they are being discouraged . |
| 18 | In cases where the dog is healthy or where surgical or medical intervention stand a good chance of success , most veterinary surgeons would try to dissuade the owner or offer rehoming . |
| 19 | Underneath are the shale and granite deposits which workers think stand a good chance of containing metals . |
| 20 | ROOT-BALLED : Such trees have been carefully removed from the earth and stand a good chance of survival if planted out . |
| 21 | If you can get them into combat they stand a good chance of winning , but you can guarantee the enemy will do his best to shoot them up first . |
| 22 | Because factory managers Klaus Kuhnle in Sindelfingen and Walter Meizer in Mainz are carrying out the restructuring , they both stand a good chance of becoming managing director of their respective companies . |
| 23 | And so long as all citizens stand a good chance of being among the majority on at least some of the major and significant issues , most if not all will be content to accept the majority principle . |
| 24 | Birds leave their roosts and take to the skies ; monkeys jump away through the branches to find breakfast , and antelope disperse once more over the open plains to graze , knowing that if danger comes they stand a good chance of seeing it before it gets lethally close . |
| 25 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 26 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 27 | Merely to deflate Darby 's confidence again Wickham commented that anyone could buy a tired secondhand machine and stand a good chance of buying inexpensive packs of paper offcuts . |
| 28 | Following this strategy you stand a good chance of getting what you need . |
| 29 | Applicants who will have met the minimum academic entrance requirements by the time they enter university stand a good chance of being made an offer : those who have already met these requirements before applying will receive unconditional offers , while those with examinations still to take will receive conditional offers . |
| 30 | It seems that those who become active evangelicals stand a better chance of obtaining housing materials and educational opportunities for their children . |