How To Use By chance In A Sentence
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Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
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`Oh hullo, Darrow," I said as if I had encountered him by chance at a garden party.
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This gruelling sporting discipline came along by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not constituted by many distinct parts, linked together by chance.
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Of course, there are beautiful scenes and views in nature, but that happens by chance.
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Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.
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If a result is significant, it means that you're pretty sure that it's unlikely to have happened by chance.
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Surviving manuscripts have been preserved by chance, so there will always be lacunae in the documentary record.
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A friend and I, by chance leaving the hotel, stopped to watch the candidates greet the crowd.
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Many great defamation judgments have been written by Chancery judges.
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By chance, while working as an English teacher I also have a degree in English I discovered other women were suffering from what is termed catamenial epilepsy, seizures caused by the menstrual cycle.
Jo Ann Greenwald: The Story of Emily's Edibles
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You don't happen to be getting rid of any brown goatish/sheepish fake fur by chance, do you?
Making Light: Open thread 136
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By chance, I found the little processing ‘darkroom’ for those slides at a local thrift store.
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Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times.
The Sun
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In an Early Day Motion tabled today by Chancellor Alistair Slugbalancer, the Government is to reintroduce the hunting of bankers under licenced and controlled conditions.
Hunting Ban to be Lifted
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Never wanting to be actively involved in politics, television happened by chance.
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By chance there happened to be a 12 year-old MkII Boogie combo in the Guitarist studio with just such a loop.
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But it would be truly amazing if the most efficient rule for the job already existed, just by chance.
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Quite by chance, and unknown to the police, the incident was filmed and broadcast later on national television news.
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By chance, Ch'ien makes this statement in a discussion of the Chinese translations of Ezra Pound, which may explain why the sentence is primarily in German and why the essay is larded with quotations from other European languages.
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Where we were sitting in Jalalabad was, by chance, beside the Jalalabad airfield, which is one of the major takeoff zones for the drones.
Christopher Lydon: William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO)
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They had gone their separate ways after 102 Dalmatians but met up again, by chance, when she co-starred with actor Matthew Rhys.
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Curiously, a blitz game I won gave me a lot of confidence and motivation, even though I won it purely by chance.
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By chance, this coincided with widespread demonstrations against the military dictatorship by students and democracy activists.
Times, Sunday Times
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By chance I found a cloud of fish-fry, thousands of transparent proto-fish all facing in the same direction, jiggling on the flow of the current.
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Some of us were born to be spies. Not me though, I sort of fell into it by chance.
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However, an expert at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh said it was ‘probably true’ that most clusters of illness happened by chance.
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So this is Democritus' cosmology - a universe ruled largely by chance.
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Serbian police admitted they found the fugitive by CHANCE as he walked in the garden of his secret bolthole as they prepared to raid homes nearby.
The Sun
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On feast days he did his best to celebrate the Missarum sollemnia, that is the solemn Mass, and then he met personally with the people of God, who were very fond of him, because they saw in him the authoritative reference from whom to draw security: not by chance was the title consul Dei quickly attributed to him.
New Liturgical Movement
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Do such events occur simply by chance or do they reflect a genetic programme that can be activated by specific signals?
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Many great defamation judgments have been written by Chancery judges.
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They resort to petty thievery to make a few extra bucks and, by chance, end up videotaping a mob hit that lands them in water over their heads.
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Can it be by chance that mankind's sacred places are almost always spaces where echoed are heard to particularly good effect?
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Was Godel correct "that the formation within geological times of a human body by the laws of physics (or any other law of a similar nature) starting from a random distribution of the elementary particles and the field, is about as unlikely as the separation by chance of the atmosphere into its components?
2009 November - Telic Thoughts
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I met her quite by chance.
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Did he by chance know a boobook owl named Hala?
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Devolution was neither inevitable nor did it happen by chance, but rather as the result of a positive choice for change.
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By chance the ship had arrived at the perfect time of year, and the silence of the forest at noon was broken everywhere by the sounds of exploding capsules of hevea fruits scattering seeds one hundred feet from the bases of the tall, silvery trees.
One River
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Our teachers are very supportive. If by chance we start dreaming in class, we get a sharp whack on our knuckles to bring us back to the real world.
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By chance I happened to bump into the two gentlemen in one of our local establishments.
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Subsequent studies have come to less clear conclusions, and a few scientists believe that the monkey results are explained by chance.
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He only took up donning the white overcoat and cap by chance, and after a less than auspicious start he has grown into the role.
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To think, they had stumbled on Solstice completely by chance last night, and that chance had gifted her the data with which she could fill in some gaping blanks and maybe - just maybe - develop the elixir of life as well.
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By chance he bumped into her again that night at another pub and worked up the courage to speak with her.
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Aug. 1 -- Government's inquiry about France's intentions concerning ultimatum to Russia causes French mobilization; Kaiser signs mobilization order; Reichstag convoked; war speech by Chancellor;
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
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Then, by chance, an Indian sirdar — a driver or overseer — learns that he is a Brahmin and can read Sanskrit.
'The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul'
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The queens majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.
Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5
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Sometimes the sounds produced will have been activated by chance. sometimes deliberately.
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Most of these newcomers entered politics by chance and had a military or business background.
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Conceived almost by chance, when a prototype suddenly produced amazing results, the machine features two patented aligned drums that rotate simultaneously but in opposite directions.
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Life gets better not by chance, but by change.
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Several years after they'd split up they met again by chance in Paris.
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Hidden in a narrow alley of the old quarter of Nice, one discovered it by chance or word-of-mouth.
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The pair met often — at first by chance but later by design.
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Murray and Johansson are brought together by chance, their lives intersecting in the hotel.
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This danger proceeds from fire-damp, as one unlucky stroke of the pick may bring forth a stream of carbureted hydrogen gas, inexplosive of itself, but if mixed with eight times its bulk of air, more dangerous than gunpowder, and which, if by chance it comes in contact with the flame of a candle, is sure to explode, and certain death is the result -- not always from the explosion itself, but from the after-damp or carbonic acid gas which follows it.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
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The hope is that great science can be facilitated by chance meetings on a staircase or casual observations and musing over a sandwich and a cup of coffee.
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Unfortunately he did not live long enough to marvel with me at the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" (29 letters), which I discovered by chance in my unabridged dictionary last year.
The Union - All Categories
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Factoring in these N specificational resources then amounts to checking whether the probability of hitting any of these targets by chance is small, which in turn amounts to showing that the product Np is small.
Detecting design: Specification versus Likelihood - The Panda's Thumb
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Then, by chance, he met a local fisherman who helped him to unlock the puzzle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The police came upon the hideout purely by chance.
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Darwin found the perfect vehicle for his purpose in the supposed evolution of species by chance variation and natural selection.
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Albom was already a successful sportswriter when he by chance saw a television interview with Morrie Schwartz, his spiritual mentor and advisor in his college days.
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Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times.
The Sun
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“Gam,” a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about “spouters” and “blubber-boilers,” and such like pretty exclamations.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The museum here is home to a famous statue, the Dancing Satyr, which was retrieved from the seabed by chance, in a fishing net.
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If by chance the first half ended in a tie, the score of the second half would determine the winner of the game.
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Mutated, freely-multiplying cells are caused by peroxidized fats, by free radicals in the body, by radiation (there has always been background radiation on Earth), by chance mutation.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet. Victor Hugo
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Vulgar clothed in sindon or fine linen: for to that the words have respect: not that he had some linen loosely and by chance cast about him, but that the garment wherewith he always went clothed, was of sindon, that is, of linen.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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By chance we recently discovered the work of a guy who is using his blogs for something utterly obsessive and brilliant.
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I met him by chance out walking yesterday.
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And those steps outweight the ones defined by chance.
Why Weird Stuff Makes You Creative | Write to Done
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Many have no symptoms and are only found by chance in routine examinations.
Times, Sunday Times
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A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident.
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The statistical threshold uses the global degree of each linker gene within the HIN and the hypergeometric distribution to assess the probability that the linker gene would connect to the observed number of altered genes by chance alone.
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If only by chance, it would seem likely that some of the detainees might be terrorists.
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How Frank got involved in the initiative came about completely by chance.
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She sailed into yachting by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two of them bumped into each other completely by chance, which sparked the talks for the documentary film.
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To identify statistically significant linker genes, we used the global degree of each linker gene within the HIN and the hypergeometric distribution to assess the probability that the linker gene would connect to the observed number of altered genes by chance alone.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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If the prediction is correct, then Britain will undershoot the 2% to 2.5% growth predicted by Chancellor of the Exchequer in April.
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You are unlikely to see badgers by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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By chance, my seat in the press box in Tulane Stadium was next to that of the late, great Jimmy Cannon, who was absolutely horror-struck by the incident involving the balloon.
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2. I am not clear what an acf or acv function is (in general or in this program) 3. Nor do I know how to read the syntax to see if 70 different rednessess are created or if there is one created and then 70 runs of it are done (varying by chance).
Climate Models – the Next Generation « Climate Audit
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Otherwise, if not by chance nor by shared ancestry, the similarities may only be explained by convergent evolution.
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Because mutations in the mitochondrial chromosome happen at random, more of them might by chance happen in one mitochondrial lineage than in another.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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That child sitting cross-legged on the floor of that shop, in the heart of the forest, reading all alone in the lamplight, is not there by chance.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
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John Major in the life of John the monk, that lived in the days of Theodosius, commends the hermit to have been a man of singular continency, and of a most austere life; but one night by chance the devil came to his cell in the habit of a young market wench that had lost her way, and desired for God's sake some lodging with him.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Because mutations in the mitochondrial chromosome happen at random, more of them might by chance happen in one mitochondrial lineage than in another.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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It was only by chance that I heard the doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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If, by chance, I have dreamt it, then I naturally take all of the kudos.
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And if, by chance, you need a guide, you might chance to follow a certain blanched-bumed bee hide ... as it bumbles, and as you stumble, from one good intention to the next.
Savoir Vivre
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I do not hold that anything happens by chance, or that the albatross is unworthy of being treated with humanity, because it acts in what you call a savage way.
The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
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They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.
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The pair met often — at first by chance but later by design.
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The Saint Springs water company was born two years ago when American entrepreneur John King by chance met Russian Orthodox Bishop Aleksandr of central Russia's Kostroma region.
That's The Spirits
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One day, quite by chance, I happened to look at the imprint of my copy and noticed it was a First Edition.
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The incidence of two red cards going to the same team is less than expected and to opposing teams 24 per cent more than by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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No jury thereafter ever found him guilty of a capital felony if by chance he killed a gangsman in self-defence.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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Mr. Sergeant Toffy's lady felt no particular gratitude, when, with a twist of his elbow, he tilted a glass of port-wine over her yellow satin and laughed at the disaster; nor was she better pleased, although old Osborne was highly delighted, when Georgy "whopped" her third boy (a young gentleman a year older than Georgy, and by chance home for the holidays from Dr. Tickleus's at Ealing School) in Russell
Vanity Fair
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She is walking down a Prague street, a shopping basket over her arm, to the market to buy carrots, leeks, mackerel, and passes by chance a shoe shop, and there are the red shoes in the window -- all by themselves on a little plinth raised above the lesser footwear, the price tag coyly peeking out from the base -- and she has such a powerful urge to go in and try them on that that is what she does.
Tom Gregory: From Alzheimer's to Auschwitz at 32,000 Feet
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However, he wasn't affected by the poison because he drank some tea by chance, which was an antidote.
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He was marking exam papers when by chance he found a blank page in a candidate's answer book.
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Lonesome tells the story of a punch-press operator named Jim and a telephone switchboard operator named Mary who are desperately lonely, and then meet by chance during a holiday at Coney Island.
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By chance, the following afternoon, I came across some aconites among the potted plants on sale in a DIY store.
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I heard by chance that she has married again
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The probability of this convergence happening by chance tends to zero as the number of experimental procedures increases.
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Do you by chance happen to know any art gallery owners secretly aspiring to be Don King?
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He lived in an area frequented by prostitutes and encountered the girl by chance.
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Nevertheless, he assures us that whatever happens by chance is "determined and ordered according to this type of determinateness and order" (Wars, II. 2, p. 34).
Gersonides
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Now monoecious trees occur in the endangered species list more than you would expect by chance.
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Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity.
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He had entered a supersensual world, in which he could measure nothing except by chance collisions of movements imperceptible to his senses, perhaps even imperceptible to his instruments, but perceptible to each other, and so to some known ray at the end of the scale.
The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
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The formation of the unit happened almost by chance after the 2011 riots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless you were monstrously tall, you could see nothing in front of you except for the back of someone's head or by chance, the flanks of a donkey or packhorse carrying goods.
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Should by chance the rain keep falling (I can't remember when it last stopped!) bringing the rivers and streams into flood, then all is not lost.
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Subsequent studies have come to less clear conclusions, and a few scientists believe that the monkey results are explained by chance.
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This is, of course, not by chance, but part of a careful selection of vocabulary and symbols created to contest the existential dilemma.
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Yet this contract came about in some respects purely by chance.
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By chance this evening is also a meeting for parents, etc., of gifted students and I agreed to go to that since it's downtown and they're going to provide my dinner (and it gets done before Wyrdsmiths starts).
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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The first is about an unlikely male friendship between two men thrown together by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The formation of the unit happened almost by chance after the 2011 riots.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had gone their separate ways after 102 Dalmatians but met up again, by chance, when she co-starred with actor Matthew Rhys.
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Count to her by the strongest of all ties, by a chain of gold, and vowed to be so rich that her fortune might make her second marriage dissoluble, if by chance Colonel Chabert should ever reappear.
Le Colonel Chabert
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But there have always been kids from hardscrabble backgrounds who show academic promise - by nature, by chance, or thanks to the special efforts of parents or other adults.
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While there, I've met people I already knew by chance and had chance meetings with new people.
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Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times.
The Sun
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I was at Mosport by chance at a private event for providing on-track coaching to owners of some very exotic cars.
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By chance he is also the winner of the caption competition we carried in the June issue!
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He was a banker; when by chance he fell into a doze at day-break, the cobber awoke him with his song.
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It was a great surprise to buy a copy by chance and find the Evening Press is now lively and informative.
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Some of the greatest discoveries in history resulted by chance or accident and many as an unexpected periphery to the original intent.
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Conventional antipsychotics, such as haloperidol (Haldol) and chlorpromazine (Thorazine), were stumbled on by chance in the 1950s and were found to have a powerful calming effect on psychotic patients, but also a number of side effects.
AroundTheCapitol.com
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Warren now says that he bummed around until he was 27 and then fell into boxing by chance after lending money, twice, to a pal to promote unlicensed fights and when it didn't come back, stepped in to do it himself.
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It was only by chance, returning on the other side, that she saw its brass plate.
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By chance, I got a job as documentalist at SEAMEO BIOTROP in Bogor, Indonesia.
Widharto — Indonesian Librarian
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In Memphis, he has an experience that makes him realize that he is not as sophisticated or worldly as he thought: he meets a boy by chance on the road, and they come upon a jug of bootleg alcohol.
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Results Now the youth staff in CDC system throw oneself into CDC enterprise. They can correctly deal with pressure. And leading demand of their self-encouragement ability is by chance authority.
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You must constantly ask yourself these questions: who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
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P, the manager of Cafe Bastille on Belden Lane, by chance of fate is also our neighbour.
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At the train station, she bumps into her ex-husband Bruno, Viktor's father, by chance.
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They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.
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Both his career as a novelist and his move to America happened by chance.
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By chance I'd had them the day before as a satisfactory sop for a piece of grilled sea bass at Kensington Place in west London.
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She sailed into yachting by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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I met her by chance at the airport.
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The highlight of three hours of trudging was something I stumbled across by chance.
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A convicted thug has been jailed for throwing a witness to the floor when the pair met by chance in a corner shop.
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Since charcoal was traditionally used to smelt iron from its ore, some carbon was always incorporated into the metallic product by chance.
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This album will turn up, by chance, in the hidden trove of the reseller of Cabrera Infante's books.
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How funny it would be, if the French some day, as a novelty, or what they would call a caprice, were to try the effect of truth; "though not naturally honest," as Autolycus says, "were to become so by chance.
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
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We met quite by chance, but we quickly became friends -- what in my country we call chums -- and we have been inseparable ever since.
The Net
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You are unlikely to see badgers by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite by chance we had, not so literally this time, stumbled upon one of the most favoured sites in the country for the declining bird.
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Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
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He and Nancy stumbled across it by chance as they walked through a boatyard not far from home.
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Like other fallen communities, it is now governed by chance and human imperfection.
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There happened to be an old farm labourer Who came by chance that way.
TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
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By chance, Tulsa had capital sales tax funds that were unallocated at the time of the flood.
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It was there that she met world-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta by chance at Florence Opera and then became an assistant conductress to him.
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At the train station, she bumps into her ex-husband Bruno, Viktor's father, by chance.
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I confessed my fault to Buxton and Marshall and we tettered for a while, till, by chance, Sagr ibn Shaalan, one of our old allies of the distant days of Wejh, rode down the track, and put us on the road.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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I tried putting a little family of the babies into a cage in the plant case, hoping the mother who belonged to them would then appear and take care of them; but no, the entire colony trooped in and ran riot in the new place, and if a young gerbille was by chance left uncovered in the _melée_, a twentieth cousin would take it up tenderly as if it was its own mother, and replace it in the nest -- a very emblem of brotherly kindness and charity.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness
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The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance.
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Open by chance and read almost anywhere in his score of books, ” it may be the “Tour on the Prairies,” the familiar dream of the Alhambra, or the narratives of the brilliant exploits of New World explorers; surrender yourself to the flowing current of his transparent style, and you are conscious of a beguilement which is the crowning excellence of all lighter literature, for which we have no word but “charm.”
Washington Irving
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Although this can arise just by chance for some loci, averaging estimates over loci reduces the problem.
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They meet by chance and impulsively decide to get married because they think it will be their ticket to freedom.
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While this was being done, and the wretch was twisting his body in every kind of contortion as he writhed under the blows, the procession by chance was following after him.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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I met her by chance at the airport.
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Is there a way to get my username unrevoked, by chance?
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We may conclude from its effects, as well as its etymology, that a chancery is a court wherein the causes are decided by chance, and wherein the goddess Fortune, perfectly blind, presides.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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The pair met often — at first by chance but later by design.
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a shopping basket over her arm, to the market to buy carrots, leeks, mackerel, and passes by chance a shoe shop, and there are the red shoes in the window -- all by themselves on a little plinth raised above the lesser footwear, the price tag coyly peeking out from the base -- and she has such a powerful urge to go in and try them on that that is what she does.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
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The odds of that happening by chance must be many billions to one.
The Sun
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Most of them must have learnt their craft by chance, or from peers or family members.
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You must constantly ask yourself these questions: who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
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By chance, the restaurant is housed in a former dwelling place occupied by a Dutch family and built in mid 1800s.
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet. Victor Hugo
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But the 1980s was not only the most recent decade they had inhabited, but one which by chance is now achingly fashionable.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.
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Some people say the best things in life happen incidentally, by chance, that fate defines what becomes of us.
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The police came upon the hideout purely by chance.
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He works always by rule and line, never by chance or guess.
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The queen's majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Because mutations in the mitochondrial chromosome happen at random, more of them might by chance happen in one mitochondrial lineage than in another.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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Quite by chance, a TV crew was filming in the area when the accident happened.
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Hope you all have gotten Boonton's point that the average active fund can't overperform, and that even in a world where no managers are aby good you will still see some "stars" just by chance.
Financial Crime, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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By chance an opportunity had presented itself to escape from the drudgery he dreaded.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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First, there are spontaneous mutants, oddballs that arise by chance.
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_Compass_ and the sight of the _Celestial guids_, we might indeed, _by chance_, Steer _directly_ towards our desired Port, but 'tis _a thousand to one_ but we _miss_ our aim.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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Now, if by chance you didn't have a craving for lyophilised ice cream and possibly didn't even know what it meant (it means "freeze dried" by the way) - then prepare to have your taste buds rocked!
LatestBuy.com.au - New Stuff
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Every existent is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
Being And Nothingness (L’Être et le Néant) | clusterflock
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By chance, French companies are not last in the world in fields like public construction, roads, tourism, energy and food industry.
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By chance he said there was an old cottage up here.
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By chance a hydrofoil came up for sale.
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He works always by rule and line, never by chance or guess.
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But it would be truly amazing if the most efficient rule for the job already existed, just by chance.
