Example sentences of "[coord] [art] odds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , John , does it make a difference how popular a horse race is and how many horses there are in a race as to the odds against winning or the odds in favour of winning ? |
| 2 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 3 | ‘ These are encouraging signs that the message is being heard in the East , ’ he says , ‘ but this is a race against time and the odds of winning do not look favourable . ’ |
| 4 | This is where dogs come into their own for they are not hampered so much as the rabbits and the odds are shortened in favour of the dog in every chase . |
| 5 | The mind rather boggles at what might happen should this expedition not be a success — and the odds are not all that good that it will bring back the Bledisloe Cup from Australia or a one-test rubber win from South Africa . |
| 6 | And the odds are the German on the sun lounger will have marked his spot early in the morning with a Game Boy and a couple of games cartridges . |
| 7 | They knew Richard Neville not as some hard-done-by humorist but as the author of the paperback Playpower which became the handbook of the international drop-outs and bemused pot-smoking youngsters , persuaded to believe that society was rotten , life was too tough and the odds too heavily stacked against them — the best thing to do was to drop out and bum around . |
| 8 | The set of favoured firms is likely to be composed mainly of research-intensive firms or firms with enormous manufacturing expertise , and the odds are that such firms may have discovered the information for themselves through their own R&D before it spills over to them from rivals . |
| 9 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 10 | It 's a mindless game and the odds are twelve to one it wo n't come out , so I am left to think in the slow gloom . |
| 11 | In ulcers with a non-bleeding visible vessel , the mean rate of rebleeding was 33% in control groups , the reduction as a result of treatment 19% ( pooled rate difference ( 95% CI ) =0.19 ( 0.09 ) ) and the odds ratio 0.37 ( 95% CI=0.21 to 0.65 ) . |
| 12 | Dr Kent thinks she 's reached a plateau , and the odds are she wo n't have to go to intensive care . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd read stories about other crashes where the survivors had tried to rescue themselves , and the odds were against their making it . |
| 14 | But Murphy knows he can run a successful business — PRCS has been voted consultancy of the year by its peers — and the odds must be on him wanting to play on a bigger stage once he is free to do so . |
| 15 | I do rather use the one , like me I 'd like two , cos I 've got one full of bits and pieces and the odds , odds and ends I keep |
| 16 | Many girls do manage to survive and come out able to build up a life for themselves , but the odds are stacked against them . |
| 17 | It will be tough , but the odds are on Mr Murdoch coming through . |
| 18 | Throughout , Makoto Namba kept the mainsail setting beautifully but the odds were insurmountable and Nippon must now win her last three races while there is a three way tie for second place . |
| 19 | But the odds were weighted against reason , and other parts of the mind , like some Resistance movement long held down in an oppressed country , came out into the open . |
| 20 | Reports of the stakes vary , but the odds were undeniably high . |
| 21 | But the odds of becoming a millionaire are good , about one in 186,046 . |
| 22 | The sides must battle again for a quarter-final place on December 16 , but the odds are now stacked against Howard Kendall 's men after the way they lost their grip on this fiercely-contested fourth-round tie . |
| 23 | There were nine races left , but the odds on Hunt you could get in the betting shops were astronomical . |
| 24 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 25 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 26 | You can improvise details of how the soul is destroyed if needs be , but the odds are that the adventurers wo n't agree to one of their number getting this treatment . |
| 27 | David Wilkie , the actuary , concluded that the loss of the Tory majority , then 21 , was ‘ not impossible but the odds are rather against it . ’ |
| 28 | They may not be contributory — but the odds are heavy on their being present . |
| 29 | But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose . |
| 30 | But the odds are Gerry 's merely run into something more interesting than usual , worth being late for supper . ’ |