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Sentence Examples Devolution was neither inevitable nor did it happen by chance, but rather as the result of a positive choice for change. Most of these newcomers entered politics by chance and had a military or business background. Darwin found the perfect vehicle for his purpose in the supposed evolution of species by chance variation and natural selection. Then imagine bumping into the players by chance afterwards to tell them exactly what you thought of their display. The two of them bumped into each other completely by chance, which sparked the talks for the documentary film. At the train station, she bumps into her ex-husband Bruno, Viktor's father, by chance. Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental. I picked up a copy of the book by chance the other day, and started reading it last night. The highlight of three hours of trudging was something I stumbled across by chance. He and Nancy stumbled across it by chance as they walked through a boatyard not far from home. 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. Never wanting to be actively involved in politics, television happened by chance. Burlison invented fuzz by chance when he accidentally dropped his amplifier to the floor before a gig. Surely this was a discrepancy that could not have arisen by chance, and is proof positive of a systematic bias amounting to racism. I was at Mosport by chance at a private event for providing on-track coaching to owners of some very exotic cars. He then, by chance, saw the noticeboard at the Volunteer Bureau advertising for drivers and stopped to find out more. This album will turn up, by chance, in the hidden trove of the reseller of Cabrera Infante's books. Of course, there are beautiful scenes and views in nature, but that happens by chance. The museum here is home to a famous statue, the Dancing Satyr, which was retrieved from the seabed by chance, in a fishing net. Do you by chance happen to know any art gallery owners secretly aspiring to be Don King? Show More Sentences Do such events occur simply by chance or do they reflect a genetic programme that can be activated by specific signals? If a result is significant, it means that you're pretty sure that it's unlikely to have happened by chance. A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident. Murray and Johansson are brought together by chance, their lives intersecting in the hotel. However, he wasn't affected by the poison because he drank some tea by chance, which was an antidote. It's not by chance that Ford, Honda and Volvo own the industry's environmental high ground. Whether it was by chance or design Sam Allardyce has hit upon the strike force he has craved all season. Most of them must have learnt their craft by chance, or from peers or family members. Like other fallen communities, it is now governed by chance and human imperfection. One day, quite by chance, I happened to look at the imprint of my copy and noticed it was a First Edition. They meet by chance and impulsively decide to get married because they think it will be their ticket to freedom. Sometimes acquaintances tip him off about such books and at other times he comes across them by chance. Just in case I never come across it by chance, I sowed some seed last spring, since it is a garden plant. He came upon the channel by chance when he noticed that there was a call-in taking place. The building itself was largely destroyed, but by chance I had come upon the entry way into the subway line on my first tour through the city. Police, calling at a house to trace a former occupant, by chance came upon a case of extreme hardship. I came upon your website by chance and am quite impressed by the content and quality of your coverage. Some people say the best things in life happen incidentally, by chance, that fate defines what becomes of us. He even calculates the conditional probabilities of such a cluster occurring just by chance. It was there that she met world-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta by chance at Florence Opera and then became an assistant conductress to him. Show More Sentences It was a great surprise to buy a copy by chance and find the Evening Press is now lively and informative. Otherwise, if not by chance nor by shared ancestry, the similarities may only be explained by convergent evolution. They had gone their separate ways after 102 Dalmatians but met up again, by chance, when she co-starred with actor Matthew Rhys. If you by chance post my message on your web site, please blank out my email. He lived in an area frequented by prostitutes and encountered the girl by chance. The probability of this convergence happening by chance tends to zero as the number of experimental procedures increases. I see that kind of simplicity and beauty, and I think, this is a put-up job, this didn't happen by chance. Surviving manuscripts have been preserved by chance, so there will always be lacunae in the documentary record. An 11-year-old girl escaped the clutches of a would-be kidnapper when a police car passed by chance. 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. He was marking exam papers when by chance he found a blank page in a candidate's answer book. Some of the greatest discoveries in history resulted by chance or accident and many as an unexpected periphery to the original intent. The Spotted Ox must be a well-kept secret by those in the know, we only found out about it by chance. Should by chance the rain keep falling bringing the rivers and streams into flood, then all is not lost. His gaze alighted on the journalist Eleanor Mills, by chance the stepdaughter of a Cabinet minister. The problem was that many people came in on that day by chance, taking advantage of the sale even if they weren't regular customers. It is not by chance that Simona chose to tell the story of the Remembrance Day. She had searched everywhere and by chance stumbled across Bert's pile of dirty laundry and saw it sticking out from underneath. Then, quite by chance, he runs into a woman with whom he had a furtive adolescent relationship. In positive assortative mating, individuals of similar phenotype mate together more frequently than expected by chance. Show More Sentences But Cora confesses that it was love at first sight, when the couple met by chance as teenagers, nine years ago. You love change and use it to your advantage, whether by choice or by chance. Hidden in a narrow alley of the old quarter of Nice, one discovered it by chance or word-of-mouth. Although this can arise just by chance for some loci, averaging estimates over loci reduces the problem. I came to find Kwang-Su Oppa, and by chance I met him at the airport this afternoon when I was getting my bags from the luggage claim. If only by chance, it would seem likely that some of the detainees might be terrorists. 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. This is, of course, not by chance, but part of a careful selection of vocabulary and symbols created to contest the existential dilemma. A convicted thug has been jailed for throwing a witness to the floor when the pair met by chance in a corner shop. While there, I've met people I already knew by chance and had chance meetings with new people. Diverse characters happen together either by chance or in arranged meetings. If by chance the first half ended in a tie, the score of the second half would determine the winner of the game. Some of us were born to be spies. Not me though, I sort of fell into it by chance. If, by chance, you are interested in joining one of these groups but have mislaid your form, you can collect one in the Church Porch. Now monoecious trees occur in the endangered species list more than you would expect by chance. Harbans recently met his brothers by chance at Lahore during a pilgrimage tour to Sikh shrines in Pakistan. Curiously, a blitz game I won gave me a lot of confidence and motivation, even though I won it purely by chance. It was only discovered by chance in 2001 by a diving party searching for the wreck of a naval destroyer sunk by a U-boat during World War Two. It is likely that they were searching for deposits of lead ore and struck upon an outcrop of Blue John by chance. If by chance we should win the National next year I might just sling my hook and let the boy take the licence. Show More Sentences Since charcoal was traditionally used to smelt iron from its ore, some carbon was always incorporated into the metallic product by chance. How Frank got involved in the initiative came about completely by chance. Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity. An outraged crowd readies to raze the community, but once again they do so without passion, somnambulistically moving along, tending over the duties handed to them by chance. Both his career as a novelist and his move to America happened by chance. He reasoned that the movement of a ship was guided by skilled intelligence, and a sundial or water clock told the time by design rather than by chance. 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. 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. Malone first met Anderson by chance over a decade ago following the release of the cult hit Donnie Darko. Yet this contract came about in some respects purely by chance. Purely by chance, she chose a colour that would never go out of fashion. If the probability of multiple mating is random, by chance alone adults with more offspring sampled would be more likely to be detected as having mated polygamously. Purely by chance, anna Coren had landed in Sydney just as the chocolate shop siege began. Partly by design, and partly by chance, programmers believe they achieved a remarkable mix of social backgrounds which was key to the programme's success. The couple resigned themselves to following the doctors' advice when by chance a sister-in-law found an article about a pioneering British brain surgeon living in America. Instead, she went to a gas station, where by chance, Sui Mak's husband, Bing, spotted her. Some of them are classics and some of them happen by chance. First, there are spontaneous mutants, oddballs that arise by chance. If, by chance, I have dreamt it, then I naturally take all of the kudos. 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. Show More Sentences We got that gene, looked at its human counterpart and, purely by chance, inside that gene was a bit of DNA, which was the key to unlock the door on genetic fingerprinting. The Curies began researching radioactive elements after Henri Becquerel discovered, by chance, radioactive uranium. Along with team-mate Tony Nash, he won a gold medal in bobsleighing at the 1964 Winter Olympics almost by chance. Perhaps they are too young, too ignorant or too braindead to realise that Hillsborough was a tragedy inflicted on Liverpool supporters by chance. A Tees Valley chiropodist looking for new waters to dip her toes into came across two opportunities by chance. In other words, if something happens all or most of the time, we cannot say that it is by chance. The royal graves and many others were probably rediscovered by chance in 1788 when a prison was being constructed by convicts on the site. Gas was found by chance in a water well near Hamburg in 1910, leading to minor gas discoveries in Zechstein dolomites elsewhere in Germany. As a student in 1954, Penrose was attending a conference in Amsterdam when by chance he came across an exhibition of Escher's work. If by chance you notice the fine, almost sweet maltiness of the aroma, and the brisk, dry, mineral quality of the flavors, even better. In one of his essays he recalls a time when he, by chance, visited a small town in the fenlands of England, which turned out to be Stilton. However, Katich had already twice flirted with dismissal, saved only by chance both times. Daltrey spotted Entwistle by chance on the street carrying a bass and recruited him into the Detours. Gold sovereigns, pistols, spectacles and other personal items have been found by scuba divers by chance over the years. Flexible normalism follows the assumption that people reach the periphery of society by chance. The destruction of submarines required their discovery, an improbable occurrence on aggressive patrols, by chance alone. A controversy that has occupied scholars for more than a century concerns whether Cabral's discovery was by chance or intentional. The probability that these changes could have occurred by chance is virtually zero. It can occur as a result of a focus effort by a range of different agents, by chance, or as a result of a major system failure. Discovered by chance by his friends, De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Show More Sentences We had no waterbags. We lived on the veldfoods that quite by chance I had learned to pick out by keeping an eye on the bearers. They meet by chance at a cafe on the titular Parisian street, located in a well-heeled Right Bank neighborhood near the Arc de Triomphe. Perhaps by chance that was the same year Nancy bought the bushmaster. It all begins when by chance Joe observes two gangbangers beating up a cook in a po'boy sandwich shop in Venice, California. Some gamebooks have outcomes that are determined by chance, as with the rolling of dice. In Donegal the fabrics are made up in the cottages, where also the garments are shaped with such skill and fancy as may by chance pertain to the untaught shapester. So while an earwig can indeed crawl into a person's ear, it seems that a place has to be pretty darn earwiggy for such a thing to happen by chance. Each of the three daughters independently standardized on one of the two endings and, by chance, Gothic and Old Norse ended up with the same ending. Most new apple cultivars originate as seedlings, which either arise by chance or are bred by deliberately crossing cultivars with promising characteristics. When, by chance, both parents pass on the same allele for a particular gene, their child is homozygous for that allele, meaning she has two identical copies of the allele. Examples from Classical Literature It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. Yet, the neophyte, if he strolls by chance into a sale-room, will be surprised at the spectacle. This phonographic record is to prevent you from doing so, if by chance you have an impulse to do so. If by chance he has knocked down a red-legged partridge, his exultation knows no bounds. He had met her by chance in the ambulatory on her way from Brother Bonaday's rooms. And then, by chance, the circle of Andy's sight embraced the body of a horseman. Neither do we this by chance, but we know beforehand of what matter and commixture, what kind of those creatures will arise. A sbirro, or officer of justice, stood near him, whether by chance or otherwise we know not. If by chance the detritus accumulates rapidly, the slope is steepened and the work of the torrent made more efficient. She and I drove out by chance, to hear Moore doing his stunt in the circus-ground. When he held out the kerchief to her, their hands, by chance, touched for a moment. She turned her head by chance, and found Mr Disney silent too, and looking at her. Mornay by chance one day entered the cabinet of the king, where his enemies were busy in their cabals. A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. Describe him, in order that, if we meet him by chance, like Bugaboo John or Lara, we may recognize him. In the 'all this afternoon,' he has said, 'I have seen by chance the dickens of a funny occurrence. You think, perhaps, that this peacefulness has come by chance? Thus, a word suggested by chance became my Archimedean lever. Whether by chance or mistrust, the queen made Madame de Surgis sleep in her chamber, and detained her all day. Researchers assign patients by chance either to a group taking the new treatment or to a group taking a standard treatment or a placebo. Show More Sentences If by chance you go to church on the next Easter day, Chances are that you'll be passed by crowds on Boot Sale day. Is this by chance a situation in Elizabethan or other drama? Some man, however, came by chance that cave within to the heathen hoard. Madame de Granville had with her, by chance, a bottle of salts, which revived the colonel for a moment. It was the owner of the field, who was coming on tiptoes to see if, by chance, he had caught the Weasels which had been eating his chickens. And so, as the story goes, the two went to Chalcis and met by chance. In the daytime, the mountains were wrapped in smoke so dense and blinding, that the explorers, if by chance they separated, could only find each other by shouting. But destined they were, by chance and by combinations of chance events over which Michael had no control and of which he had no more awareness than had Steward himself. Was it not by chance, that is, without it being his intention or purpose, that the Amalekite encountered King Saul on Mount Gilboa with such disastrous consequences? If the latter by chance comes among them on his way to and from the settlements, he is like a game-cock among the common roosters of the poultry-yard. A week later I heard by chance that Strickland had gone to Marseilles. There were cafes all round, and by chance, thirsty and eager to get a nearer sight of the crowd, Philip installed himself at a little table outside the Cafe de Versailles. I cannot die unless I be killed by chance, for none dare slay me. Her visits there, beginning by chance, were continued by solicitation. Some few persons I have met by chance, and sent them home heartily frighted, as from the oddness of my dress and figure they took me for a ghost or a hobgoblin. Then, on the way back, we drove past the hanging tree by chance. When by chance these precious parts in a nursing whale are cut by the hunter's lance, the mother's pouring milk and blood rivallingly discolor the sea for rods. We have violated law upon law until we stand amidst ruins, and when by chance we espy a coincidence between reason and the phenomena, we are surprised. Find more words! 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