Example sentences of "but [art] odds [am/are] " in BNC.
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1 | Many girls do manage to survive and come out able to build up a life for themselves , but the odds are stacked against them . |
2 | It will be tough , but the odds are on Mr Murdoch coming through . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | David Wilkie , the actuary , concluded that the loss of the Tory majority , then 21 , was ‘ not impossible but the odds are rather against it . ’ |
7 | They may not be contributory — but the odds are heavy on their being present . |
8 | But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose . |
9 | But the odds are Gerry 's merely run into something more interesting than usual , worth being late for supper . ’ |
10 | It is possible but the odds are not good . |
11 | But the odds are on them walking away with their own business — a team business — at the end of it , ’ said Ms Liddell . |