Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Demy 's Lola ( 1961 ) , a story of love , time and chance , the teenage girl Cécile ( Annie Duperoux ) goes to the September Fair in Nantes with an American sailor , Frankie ( Alan Scott ) whom she has met by chance in a newsagent 's shop , buying a comic . |
| 2 | They did not need to rely upon chance chemical events in the world outside to create the organic molecules from which they themselves were constructed . |
| 3 | we 'd stumbled by chance on an opium-den . |
| 4 | Such statistical tests yield statements of probability about the likelihood of a particular result having occurred by chance . |
| 5 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 6 | Much of the so-called ‘ clinical evidence ’ for homoeopathy exists in the form of anecdotal cases which , the critics rightly point out , could easily have occurred by chance . |
| 7 | There are a whole set of statistical techniques for assessing the probability that the observed differences between the two groups could have resulted from chance . |
| 8 | If the sound of hooves on the turf makes your heart flutter , you may prefer to think of chance in terms of odds . |
| 9 | That is , the probability is 1 in 1000 for the result to have occurred by chance . |
| 10 | The conclusions of the Black report are confirmed insofar as they relate to malignant disease occurring in young people between 1963 and 1983 ; on the basis of the six cases included in table III we conclude that the excess in Seascale is unlikely to have arisen by chance ( table VII ) . |
| 11 | For those aged 0–24 there is an excess of malignant disease that is highly unlikely to have arisen by chance ( table VII ) . |
| 12 | Suppose we try out the following definition : a complex thing is something whose constituent parts are arranged in a way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone . |
| 13 | Each successive change in the gradual evolutionary process was simple enough , relalive to its predecessor , to have arisen by chance . |
| 14 | Wherever we have an X in a real live animal , where X is some organ too complex to have arisen by chance in a single step , then according to the theory of evolution by natural selection it must be the case that a fraction of an X is better than no X at all A and two fractions of an X must be better than one ; and a whole X must be better than nine-tenths of an X. I have no trouble at all in accepting that these statements are true of eyes , ears including bat ears , wings , camouflaged and mimicking insects , snake jaws , stings , cuckoo habits and all the other examples trotted out in antievolution propaganda . |
| 15 | Again I wondered at Edward 's way of making me feel like the useless son out of a folk-tale who had stumbled by chance into the hollow hills . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got to chance it , ’ Graham replied grimly . |
| 17 | It was a place that Jed had found by chance during his first few weeks in Adam 's Creek . |
| 18 | To put this carefully engineered plasmid into the virus the NIH team had to rely on chance . |
| 19 | Here and there amid the chaos , delicate things have survived by chance . |