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Example sentences for "mere chance"

  • So Marquard of Lindau writes in his “Buch der X Gepot,” printed in 1483.

  • In the first book of his “Hyperaspistes” (ib.

  • Where he still spoke in the spirit of the Catholic past his language was often truly sublime.

  • Unless, then, the females prefer one male to another, the pairing must be left to mere chance, and this does not appear probable.

  • This being the case, it is improbable that the unions of quadrupeds in a state of nature should be left to mere chance.

  • Was not the discovery on my part a matter of mere chance?

  • He could not believe that there was anything beyond a mere chance in his favour:--that the matter was a certainty, he dared not imagine.

  • It is by mere chance, no doubt, that I bear some resemblance to the angel you have seen in your dreams, and whom you could not see in any other manner--for angels are not visible to mortal eye.

  • Feeling an involuntary uneasiness at these words, which she had heard by mere chance, Mother Bunch approached the porter's lodge, and asked him to open the outer gate.

  • I have often remarked, that, as a poet may find an excellent rhyme by mere chance, so the germ of the best ideas is sometimes found in a word, or in some absurd resemblance like the present.

  • That's what I think, for no one heard the bullet; but it was a mere chance.

  • My only resource was to doubt their identity and to make myself believe that I had been deceived by a mere chance likeness.

  • It would be a long story to tell, and after all we met through a mere chance.

  • He had sought and sought and all his seeking had been vain, and here, by a mere chance, at an unlooked-for moment, the knowledge he had so ardently sought was his.

  • It was a mere chance, one in a million, but he considered it worth taking.

  • When we came to the camp we found there by mere chance a large party of surveyors.

  • International legislation no longer to be left to mere chance 33 42.

  • However this may be, one point must be decisively emphasized,--international legislation can no longer be left to mere chance.

  • Sidenote: International legislation no longer to be left to mere chance.

  • A mere chance is man, and the beast a mere chance.

  • It is extremely improbable that they came into being--or even started to come into being--by mere chance alone.

  • The letters of Nature's alphabet which the Artist sees in the forest are not in the places they are either through mere chance or according to a definitely prepared plan.

  • Things have I not come to be as they are by the slap-dash, irresponsible, unregulated methods of mere chance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    death occurred; economic production; feel myself; former life; hearing from; just mentioned; little pleased; livestock production; mere appearance; mere chance; mere force; mere form; mere human; mere negation; mere nothing; mere physical; mere variety; merely because; merely formal; merely the; merely wished; private letters; quite variable; though from; three cheers; water bottle