Example sentences of "[art] odds " in BNC.
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| 1 | She can , against the odds , be funny : ‘ Dinkas in the market have long , brass-bound pipes . |
| 2 | It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others . |
| 3 | Heading a homicide enquiry is a prize which has always eluded her , until against all the odds she is appointed to head a case . |
| 4 | Against the odds , that 's what I want . |
| 5 | Lucy looked straight into the camera with a look she had taken — and still , against the odds — with a look Jay thought of as love . |
| 6 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 7 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 8 | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea 's Mike Hazard , who said of his adversary : ‘ He could cope in Poland , not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well , but temperament — you saw that when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . ’ |
| 9 | Sir : Professor Gomme ( letter , 3 October ) argues the case for the exact recreation of the interior of Uppark most cogently ; and certainly , careful and committed reconstruction , such as can be seen at Chatelherault where Hamilton district council has faithfully , and against all the odds , achieved a marvellous reproduction of William Adam 's hunting lodge for the fifth Duke of Hamilton , is not to be jeered at . |
| 10 | Racing : Cordoba shouts the odds |
| 11 | Like many in the sport , the men who make the odds view the bold Brittain as racing 's version of Don Quixote . |
| 12 | The odds had turned towards the Giants on Sunday after a 6-4 win at Candlestick Park . |
| 13 | The odds against radioactive contamination , Nasa told the court , are 2,500 to 1 . |
| 14 | It 's a desperate way to look at it but when you go out there 's 16 soldiers to every 2 policemen and you work out the odds , and that 's 8 to 1 against you being hit . |
| 15 | Whether by luck or careful management , Callaghan 's administration looked much more credible now , and many expected him to call an autumn election in 1978 to cash in on favourable economic and political trends and , against all the odds , snatch another term of power . |
| 16 | According to Gatfield there is one obvious way of reducing the odds : |
| 17 | There always appears to be great competition for food on these waters and very often it is just a case of the more successful angler reducing the odds against catching the larger fish . |
| 18 | This will not stop you catching the smaller fish but it may swing the odds in your favour of selecting one or two of the larger fish . |
| 19 | Englishmen Win Percy and Allan Grice defied the odds to take victory in Australia 's most famous motor race , the Toohey 's 1000 . |
| 20 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 21 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 22 | Presumably they were offered inducements to sign and paid over the odds when they helped to win the League championship for City 's rivals two years later . |
| 23 | Calculating the draws on the coupon , the odds on a dog , the speed of a bird might draw upon reserves of numeracy and judgement , but this did not betoken the triumph of a ‘ scientific world-view ’ . |
| 24 | A Win bet means that the horse you select must come in first place and the amount that you win will depend on the odds . |
| 25 | This part of the bet will be settled at one fifth of the odds . |
| 26 | You can help us even up the odds . |
| 27 | Against all the odds it has worked , and this is a measure of just how strong they both were as individuals when they came to the marriage ten years ago . |
| 28 | It 's a fight for the well-being of young people who have the odds stacked against them ; a fight for their total transformation . |
| 29 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 30 | The odds are that it will . |