Example sentences of "[det] chance of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finlay Calder 's reasonable insistence that all of the Lions party who wished should be included on the trip , accompanied by wives or girlfriends , followed by his non-availability when this chance of expressing gratitude was rejected , have seen to that . |
| 2 | For instance , a new breakfast food marketed under the brand name of SLUB would stand little chance of success ; on the other hand , a flashing beacon called a GLEEPER ( on the analogy of bleeper ) might have some chance of succeeding . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although individuals who went to state schools have some chance of entering these jobs , public school educated elites largely reserve such positions for themselves and their children 's group . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , she 's here , so she must think there is some chance of patching things up — not that it 's any of my business , and not that I care . ’ |
| 6 | Because if you measure how well you 're doing against your own plan , you stand some chance of improving your planning . |
| 7 | With one hand people are placing children while on the other hand they are still encouraging the natural parents to think there 's some chance of having them back ! |
| 8 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 9 | ‘ You stand as much chance of getting rich with that stuff , ’ she 'd say , ‘ as I do scrubbing floors at the Liver Buildings . ’ |
| 10 | Everyone was in a hurry as they squeezed by ; no-one seemed to notice her , and she did n't see much chance of getting their attention right now . |
| 11 | You stand nearly three times as much chance of getting a police caution in Kent as you do in South Wales . |
| 12 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |
| 13 | Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come . |
| 14 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 15 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 16 | Little success had been achieved as they were too slow to have much chance of catching a fleeing Ju88 or Bf110 . |
| 17 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 18 | There 's not much chance of wearing through the Vibram soles of these Veta V Daisy Roots though . |
| 19 | If they , if they ca n't speak properly , they have n't got much chance of writing a song . |
| 20 | Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime . |
| 21 | His team-mate Terence Lazard was not out with 108 , and few gave EP much chance of matching a rate of 5.5 runs to the over . |
| 22 | You 've as much chance of making sense of events this week as you have of learning how to set the timer on your video recorder ! |
| 23 | There 's not much chance of finding an 'usband down 'ere and Aah 've no wish ti stop an old maid all me life . |
| 24 | ‘ Not much chance of finding out what that fight was about ? ’ |
| 25 | One gets the strong feeling that he would not ( in the unlikely event of his standing as a candidate ) have stood much chance of becoming Professor of Poetry at Oxford if Lewis and Tolkien had had anything to do with it . |
| 26 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 27 | I was too occupied in explaining myself legally to that rather brutal man , Dalziel , then in explaining myself emotionally to Jenny , to have much chance of explaining myself rationally to you . |
| 28 | If not , did the Vietnamese have that much chance of winning as a national army ? |
| 29 | NK : I think I have as much chance of winning a Major as Major has of winning . |
| 30 | None of the declared candidates was credited with much chance of winning the presidency ; the incumbent ( Republican ) President George Bush was regarded by many as unbeatable , and this assessment was thought to have deterred other better-known Democrats from entering the race ( although the Rev. Jesse Jackson had not yet ruled himself out ) . |