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Those changes did not seem to be in the cards.

A book deal would probably be in the cards too.

Of course that had always been in the cards, one way or another.

Part of him had known this might be in the cards.

But a visit to the Met is in the cards for 1996.

But that does not seem to be in the cards for three reasons.

So another good, if not great, year for stocks may be in the cards.

But he said at the news conference that a meeting had never been in the cards.

Romance had never really seemed to be in the cards for them.

"I think this has been in the cards for 12 months.

Here are some questions to help determine if recovery is in the cards.

"This has been in the cards for some time," she added.

One has to wonder, though, whether such a tax shuffle is in the cards.

An option to buy didn't seem to be in the cards.

Maybe that's what was in the cards dealt when he followed Jones here.

A different direction may still be in the cards for Shell, if investors have their way.

"It didn't look like working together was in the cards."

They now concede that further consolidation is in the cards.

But only if that is what is in the cards, of course.

The closest of finishes appeared to be in the cards.

Some compromise may be in the cards, but so far the air is heavy with insult.

Closer readers may have suspected for quite some time that death was in the cards.

But now that the deal has collapsed, live performance may not be in the cards for the 78-year-old landmark.

"It was in the cards, inevitable," he said of his return.

The Fed had hinted last month that a rate cut was in the cards.

This had been on the cards from the very beginning.

It's been on the cards for so long I think everyone's had enough.

This has been on the cards for some time now.

A major airport has been on the cards for a while.

The dealer's eyes will be on the cards almost all the time.

But yes, I rather fear a weapon is on the cards.

I believe that a different way of handling the human rights issue is on the cards.

I think it was on the cards that Hamas would win.

The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense.

A broken neck could easily have been on the cards.

We're all square, and that goal was on the cards.

If a bust was on the cards, nobody wanted to be here when it came down.

The means of happiness are on the cards and the dice.

That's all those wonderful little codes that are on the cards in front of you.

But the suspension of negotiations was on the cards even before the Americans' decision.

Perhaps a quick trip back to Aspen was on the cards, after all.

However, a stunning comeback was on the cards after three early second half points.

But at least it'll be on the cards won't it?

Marriage, or engagement is on the cards for next February.

He wrote and told me it was on the cards.'

I quickly figured out he meant a separation was on the cards.

It was on the cards that Barbara would get herself pregnant eventually.

From all the breathless speculation you'd think that was on the cards.

A worrying sign that was on the cards after last season's defeat at the end of the season.

There were those who muttered that Banks should have got the job, but he knew it had never been on the cards.