Example sentences of "[adv] a matter [prep] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffering happens , is not chosen , is a ‘ misfortune ’ ; shall we say that , since by nature attention quickens only as a function of the organism striving towards its goals , the optimum of internal and external stimulation to awareness can be only a matter of chance ? |
| 2 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 3 | This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance . |
| 4 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 5 | However , it would be useful to include in credit transactions a formal reminder to lender and customer that the decision to lend is not a matter of chance or prejudice , and ( as it generally does ) reflects the objective facts of the applicant 's ability and willingness to pay . |
| 6 | " Success " he remarked " is not a matter of chance — how many hours are there in a week ? " |
| 7 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 8 | It is thus partly a matter of chance which cells end up in either of these two positions . |
| 9 | Charlotte thinks that it is better to get the richest husband one can and feels that a happy marriage is simply a matter of chance . |
| 10 | This means that her reproductive tract will contain a mixture of sperm from several sources and it becomes almost a matter of chance as to which particular male 's sperm fertilizes each of her shed eggs . |
| 11 | In the swing between extremes , it can seem almost a matter of chance whether a man bursts out in self-reproach or in righteous indignation , in suicide or in murder . |