Sentence examples similar to has been chanced upon from inspiring English sources

What stunned me most this morning, though, was chancing upon a singular blue-footed booby, the first I've ever encountered.

From the outset, he has been intent upon survival, he has played and missed a fair deal but he has not given a chance.

"It has been ruled upon.

Though I was aware of the management of the fishery in general terms, I was unaware of how interesting the introduction of ITQs into the fishery had been until I chanced upon a paper by Martin Exel and Barry Kaufmann.

That chance has been lost.

Then, in the mid-1980s, Algerianian liaison at the American Embassy there chanced upon the fact that a town in Iowa had been named for Kader.

Somebody who had been hired to clean up all the tinsel after the set then chanced upon the sacred nail and decided to put it up for auction.

One parent recently recounted to me the moment that their three-year-old daughter picked up a toy stethoscope, only for another well-meaning adult to swoop in and comment: "Ah, are you going to be a nurse?" Not, of course, that it wouldn't be a fine choice of profession, but what would the corresponding comment have been had a little boy chanced upon the same toy?

We chanced upon him later that day in a hospital ward – both his legs had been severed in a drone attack as he walked to the mosque.

Online advertising relies upon such strict parameters that there will be finitely small chances that friends and family have been exposed to the same advertisements that I have.

The longer species have been associated with each other, the greater the chances that they have become co-adapted, and dependent upon each other, to a greater or lesser degree.