Collocations with Accident – 2

Collocations with Accident 2

Collocations with Accident – 2

Accident

noun

sth not planned in advance

 

ADJECTIVE

mere, pure, sheer –

.By pure accident he had come across the very man who could solve the mystery

happy –

historical –

 

PREPOSITION

by accident –

.We met by accident at the airport

 

PHRASES

(an accident of birth (especially BrE –

an accident of history –

.It’s just an accident of history that the city became part of the Soviet Union

…be no accident that –

.It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs

by accident or design –

It happened, whether by accident or design, that Steve and I were the last two people to leave

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