Example sentences of "chance [prep] [being] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , an 80 year old and a 40 year old should have an equal chance of being offered cardiac surgery in equivalent circumstances .
2 No chance of being buried alive , not with this .
3 Innovators therefore have a good chance of being left alone for a long time .
4 He can not interfere directly with the proceedings of the Common Law Courts ; he can not issue a new writ which will have much chance of being held good by those courts .
5 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 .
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