Example sentences of "chances [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 2 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 3 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 4 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 5 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 6 | The chances are that in some organizations there will be real difficulties and dangers such as in nursing , coal mining , and heavy industries or indeed any work situation which has machinery . |
| 7 | The chances are that in an adult novel — certainly in Masefield 's sea-stories — this kind of instant personal illumination would have been avoided : the alternative , an allusive type of dialogue , would have shifted the emphasis from what is really authorial statement to an implied point of character . |
| 8 | What is more , because people 's short-term and long-term memories operate rather differently , they may well remember something quite different three days later : and the chances are that in the real marketplace it is the longer memory that matters . |
| 9 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |