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