Example sentences of "but [art] odds " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Reports of the stakes vary , but the odds were undeniably high . |
| 6 | But the odds of becoming a millionaire are good , about one in 186,046 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were nine races left , but the odds on Hunt you could get in the betting shops were astronomical . |
| 9 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | David Wilkie , the actuary , concluded that the loss of the Tory majority , then 21 , was ‘ not impossible but the odds are rather against it . ’ |
| 13 | They may not be contributory — but the odds are heavy on their being present . |
| 14 | But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose . |
| 15 | But the odds are Gerry 's merely run into something more interesting than usual , worth being late for supper . ’ |
| 16 | But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal , Derry and Down . |
| 17 | Admittedly , Venice was n't a very big place , but the odds on their meeting again by chance were minimal . |
| 18 | No time for slip-ups , but the odds must now be on Oxford avoiding the drop . |
| 19 | It is possible but the odds are not good . |
| 20 | But the odds are on them walking away with their own business — a team business — at the end of it , ’ said Ms Liddell . |