Example sentences of "chance of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An agency is undoubtedly the forum where you will gain the best all-round experience in your career , and have the biggest chance of rising to the top in the advertising business . |
| 2 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |
| 3 | Newcastle had to win both their Group A games to retain a chance of moving into the semi-final , but Keegan clearly saw this as a chance to use his developing players . |
| 4 | A new approach to central area redevelopment was implied if the argument was accepted , that if we were to have any chance of living with the car , then a different type of city was needed . |
| 5 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 6 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 7 | There 's not much chance of wearing through the Vibram soles of these Veta V Daisy Roots though . |
| 8 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
| 9 | Entering on the French side still wrapped in cloud , you have a good chance of exiting on the Spanish side , as we did on the morning in question , in flawless sunshine and restorative heat . |
| 10 | As for the militias , however zealous and heroic , they had no chance of triumphing over the Nationalist armies . |
| 11 | You would n't offer them art if you did n't see the chance of slapping on the cost of paint as an extra . |
| 12 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |
| 13 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 14 | Should audits be expected to detect every fraud ? ’ that we will have any chance of dealing with the expectations gap that has surrounded the audit . |
| 15 | The remaining arrangements of music by Borodin , Chopin , Rimsky , Liszt and Tchaikovsky hardly maintain this level of emotional charge , but if you want to stand any chance of getting to the end of your meal , that 's probably just as well ! |
| 16 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 17 | would have thought that the cow down the road had the same chance of getting to the one that he had . |
| 18 | Thus out of the middle only 27 will have any chance of getting into the top flight and then only into the second round of the Pilkington Cup . |
| 19 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 20 | But I think we 've got a good chance of getting into the play-offs and we 're capable of beating anyone on our day . |
| 21 | High structural unemployment makes alternative thinking about labour intensivity , for example more acceptable ; with less money available , small scale and community based schemes , using local resources and motivated by indigenous imagination stand far more chance of getting off the ground , provided they can obtain the right kind of encouragement and support . |
| 22 | As it was decided that there would be a better chance of getting across the front line without a military escort , WHO 's Head of Office in Sarajevo Dr Risto Tervahauta and the UNHCR Chief of Operations Larry Hollingsworth left for Gorazde , Bosnia , at 6 am on May 1 unaccompanied by UN soldiers . |
| 23 | Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep . |
| 24 | The Rev Hammer stands resplendent in battered hat , pleated hair and a grin so friendly he might even stand a chance of getting in the Camden Palace , and announces ‘ There 's two shcools of folk — the scholars with 27 different versions of the same sea shanty , and the get drunk/dance a lot/make free love … this is the lot I 'm interested in ! ’ |
| 25 | The Rev Hammer stands resplendent in battered hat , pleated hair and a grin so friendly he might even stand a chance of getting in the Camden Palace , and announces ‘ There 's two shcools of folk — the scholars with 27 different versions of the same sea shanty , and the get drunk/dance a lot/make free love … this is the lot I 'm interested in ! ’ |
| 26 | Far too many amateurs place the ball forward in their stance when pitching , therefore increasing their chance of digging into the ground before the back of the ball . |
| 27 | The chance of flying to the moon under one 's own power has a probability of 0 . |
| 28 | The chance of flying to the moon under one 's own power has a probability of 0 . |
| 29 | Both for different , but similar , reasons have turned down the chance of participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in July . |
| 30 | In such conditions , where drug combinations are not used for an adequate length of time , resistant strains have every chance of profiting from the destruction of their more sensitive relatives , and establishing a reservoir of intractable organisms . |