Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] by accident " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is quite true that it is the father that is principally in focus ; but that does not necessarily mean that " mother " is only there by accident . |
| 2 | G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it . |
| 3 | All we have to do is print the design from the magnified screen , but in sections , and it is not purely by accident that when you click on the Magnify icon , the area shown in the design screen is exactly 45 squares wide , or one quarter of the needle bed width . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'm just 'ere by accident . ’ |
| 5 | In his place he put Austen Chamberlain , although a little more by accident than design , for Baldwin had offered him the choice between that and the India Office . |
| 6 | Having drunk 3 times , the driving limit ; she probably went out onto the window ledge and fell off entirely by accident . |
| 7 | ‘ Probably entirely by accident , ’ he returned . |
| 8 | But I feel that the policy practised in the Scottish Courts of accepting a doctrine of diminished or impaired responsibility should be encouraged in order that murders which are clearly partly by accident , impulse or temporary madness or passion should be treated differently from those crimes which constitute a deliberate war against society . |
| 9 | The strict limitation of local authorities ' powers to specific parliamentary approval grew up almost by accident in the nineteenth century as a result of Railway Companies and other private organisations abusing their powers under private Acts of Parliament . |
| 10 | It had been left to Halifax — surely not by accident — to broadcast a rejection on the radio . |
| 11 | He is n't here by accident , and your news about an unofficial hunt being launched for the boy sent him off in a hurry to this place . ’ |
| 12 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 13 | Teaching came about almost by accident for Robin Child . |
| 14 | Sport , and especially cricket , projected him into a much wider domain , though it came about almost by accident , and over the dead bodies of some in the BBC establishment of the time who thought his Hampshire burr ‘ vulgar ’ . |
| 15 | His next big career break came about almost by accident . |