Example sentences of "chance [prep] get [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 !
2 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 .
3 would have thought that the cow down the road had the same chance of getting to the one that he had .
4 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 .
5 Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 ! ’
11 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 ! ’
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