Antonym: on purpose. Similar words: chance, take a chance, enhance, change, channel, mechanic, merchant, exchange. Meaning: adv. 1. in an incidental manner 2. through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." 3. by accident 4. without advance planning.
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61) In addition, immediate relatives of diagnosed psychotics show schizotypal characteristics more frequently than would be expected by chance.
62) Their joint contribution would have warranted a commemorative book, had not one by chance bearing their names already been recently released.
63) Then, quite by chance, I caught him red-handed, stealing the wallet of one of the machinists out of the cloakroom.
64) So this is Democritus' cosmology - a universe ruled largely by chance.
65) Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
65) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
66) By chance there happened to be a 12 year-old MkII Boogie combo in the Guitarist studio with just such a loop.
67) A fifth avenue is that of serendipity, where a doctor comes across homoeopathy purely by chance.
68) If by chance I'm not in when she calls, can you take a message?
69) If by chance there were no illustrious literary figures to listen to, everyone went to bed early.
70) Sometimes the sounds produced will have been activated by chance. sometimes deliberately.
71) He had been catapulted into the awesome role of negotiator with his country's ruler more by chance than anything else.
72) Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.
73) The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance.
74) By chance he is also the winner of the caption competition we carried in the June issue!
75) The paintings were returned here in 1950 purely by chance.
76) No one man changed football more in this century than the would-be colliery official who drifted by chance into soccer management.
77) But they did not find themselves at the helm by chance.
78) The universe just came into existence by chance, for no reason, and that is that.
79) It was only by chance, returning on the other side, that she saw its brass plate.
80) In a city renowned for its cafes, I thought we would eventually stumble into one by chance.
81) One qualification is that some evolutionary changes occur by chance, without natural selection.
82) Quite by chance, a TV crew was filming in the area when the accident happened.
83) Then five years ago, by chance I met another women at a trade conference.
84) Such statistical tests yield statements of probability about the likelihood of a particular result having occurred by chance.
85) No one discovers a rarity by chance.
86) For the possibility there is by chance forbidden ammo?
87) Cytochrome C protein by chance?
88) I met him by chance at Canterbury Cathedral.
89) I met her by chance on the street.
90) This procedure is based upon computing a T statistic and using a probability function to find the probability of observing a value that large by chance.
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