Example sentences of "[adj -er] chance [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case , you have a better chance of being considered if you are able to put your performance on record . |
| 2 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 3 | Newspapers love a good disaster , and a wedding where the bridegroom 's trousers fell down at the altar would stand a far better chance of being reported than one that went without a hitch . |
| 4 | Start off properly and you have a much better chance of being welcome year after year . |
| 5 | Corals which are collected by taking a reasonable amount of rock with them have a much better chance of being undamaged than those which are prised off the substrate . |
| 6 | Most experts advise that if you have made up your mind to stop smoking , you will probably stand a better chance of being successful if you can go ‘ cold turkey ’ — in other words , stop smoking all at once . |
| 7 | ‘ John has a better chance of being released if the kidnappers realize there is nothing to be gained by hanging on to him . |
| 8 | Clearly , those businesses that foresee the critical changes that will affect plans , and are flexible enough to do something about them , will have a far better chance of being successful than those who can not or will not . |
| 9 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 10 | The manufacturer has a better chance of being able to deal with difficult technical questions like yours and they really should face up to this fact . |
| 11 | If you can clearly state what your objective is what you 're trying to persuade the audience to then everything you say supports that and you stand a better chance of being persuasive . |
| 12 | GP fund holders placed contracts for more MRI sessions than the district health authority … so their patients have a better chance of being seen quickly … in about three weeks instead of about four months.But hospital managers deny that means two types of care … |
| 13 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 14 | Since the last war , however , strains of the gonococcus which produce fewer symptoms will have had a greater chance of being passed on before treatment could be instituted . |
| 15 | Information that is received in the course of the decision-making process has a far greater chance of being used than information that is stored within the organization . |
| 16 | A sound wave has a much greater chance of being scattered and absorbed by such dense vegetation . |
| 17 | The reward for encouraging all members of staff to be active participants in the decision-making process , so helping them to develop an ownership of the final policy , is that it gives the policy a greater chance of being fully implemented across the curriculum . |
| 18 | We have a greater chance of being able to flush this assassin out . |
| 19 | Geophysics represents 10% of the 700 theses included in the full Rolfe and Will lists , and so clearly geophysical papers have a disproportionately greater chance of being published in this journal than research on general or structural geology . |
| 20 | In such a case ‘ appropriate ’ technology will have a greater chance of being accepted . |