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 .
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