Example sentences of "chance [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 2 | Their career opportunities consist of a fairly good chance of moving up to senior technician , and a very slim chance of becoming a lab director . |
| 3 | ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall . |
| 4 | Driving ( and lunch on the way ) can be fun and , if you 're self-catering , give you the chance of stocking up with cheap local food and drink on the way . |
| 5 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 6 | Saturday 's defeat of leaders Muckamore by Cregagh left Holywood with an excellent chance of catching up with the leaders , but on Sunday they conspired to lose all wickets for a mere when chasing Carrick 's total of 177 . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Jansher Khan , the new world champion who had his $15,000 prize money withheld because he left the official dinner early , may have lost his chance of taking over as world No. 1 . |
| 8 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 11 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
| 12 | You will then have a better chance of getting through to the interview stage ; |
| 13 | Unlike on a school day I would have the chance of getting up at my leisure , for I would begin at ten o'clock . |
| 14 | In 1978 , Gary Player had birdied the hole for a 64 to set the target , but Watson , needing a par to tie , hooked from the tee and his second shot scuttled off the left edge of the green from where there is little chance of getting down in two more . |
| 15 | Mr Lang said that , taken together , the measures showed the Government 's determination to tackle the problem and give unemployed people the best chance of getting back into jobs . |
| 16 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 17 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 18 | While you 're here do n't say it , and we might all stand a chance of getting out of here alive . |
| 19 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 20 | The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team . |
| 21 | Cohabitation with reform-minded Communists is their only chance of breaking out of their lonely weakness . |
| 22 | It seemed to be Greece 's only chance of breaking out of isolation , its only hope of finding a role for itself in the world . |
| 23 | After their winning match against Crewe Alexandra , the Shots polished performance improved their league position by four places , and left them with an outside chance of going up into Division III . |
| 24 | A British youngster from a poor background who gained higher school certificate had at least a chance of going on to university or technical college , with fees and maintenance paid . |
| 25 | If such a position were copied by a club player less skilled and using a less powerful hand-and-arm action , the clubface would stand little or no chance of squaring up on impact . |
| 26 | There 's little chance of checking up on it . |
| 27 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 28 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 29 | But erm I stopped there till the war was finished and then er I went back to the Lock and as asked them if th there was any chance of coming back to work there , you know , cos and er they said oh yes , as long as you like . |
| 30 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |