So far, death from the thing is a matter of pure chance.
Their meeting was pure chance, or so he had always thought.
We had no more than a few minutes talk with him, by pure chance.
"You mean just leave it all in the hands of pure chance?"
The question becomes how often we would see 40 instead of 1 due to pure chance.
It was pure chance that he had gone - but what a very good thing!
It was pure chance, and could take many hours to finish.
Thus their meeting there might have the appearance of pure chance.
It's pure chance I didn't just go on making them, or worse.
Our dominance may have been the result of pure chance.
I'm getting ready to volunteer at the local district attorney's office to help clear cold cases.
It is a clear case of love at first sight, Jack.
It is quite according to rule, a most clear and excellent case.
It becomes a clear case that they must all go.
"This is the most clear case we have had in years," the official said tonight from Washington.
A clear case of be careful what you wish for.
This is a clear case of the Commission not following the science.
In summary, there is no clear case for one type of tax system compared to another.
These seem to be clear cases where Article 9 was in issue.
His report makes a clear case for a 'yes' vote.
"You mean they just happened to be talking in a strange, obscure language by sheer coincidence?"
It was sheer coincidence that he had discovered the entrance at all.
There was no way of telling, and it could all be just sheer coincidence.
That had to be sheer coincidence, where he stood, but maybe not.
It was sheer coincidence when she came in to audition for my show years later.
It was sheer coincidence that I could give them exactly what they wanted within five minutes of their asking.
It's sheer coincidence that you're here; my soul will not need you.
A year later, thinking back, he tells himself that everything happened through sheer coincidence.
It was kept from me for three years and I found out by sheer coincidence.
Not only that, but by sheer coincidence he was also the world expert in the drug to treat it!
Until they meet all unions are mere accidents which have no meaning.
The merest accident might have altered the whole course of later events.
Its development is therefore regarded, by some, as a mere accident of war.
Is this world and our presence therein all a mere accident?
Suddenly, he also realized that this state of affairs had not come about through mere accident.
They had come upon the outlaws by mere accident, and it is hard telling which was the most surprised.
Could it be coincidence, a mere accident of geography and history?
It is perhaps mere accident that we hear nothing of the Clementines from 330 until 360.
And no mere accident had brought the flower to her doorstep.
After her attack, the fire couldn't be a mere accident.
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