Example sentences of "[noun] [that] can happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knows that the secret of laughter is shared experience — laughing together at disasters and embarrassments that can happen to us all . |
| 2 | Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death . |
| 3 | Er there was a worry that well first of all the effect just the the appearance of the road passing through that area , clearly obviously concerns about development but that can be on on any route that can happen . |
| 4 | It there a certain number of times that can happen or |
| 5 | As with traumatic stress , the sort that can happen when you witness a bomb explosion or serious accident . |
| 6 | You know the kind of erm the kind of accident that can happen . |
| 7 | This is only one of the things that can happen to the electrons , but it is the one which is of interest in the production of TL . |
| 8 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 9 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 10 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 11 | Now when you get to a T R P what are the three things that can happen ? |
| 12 | I think we can point to some of the things that can happen that worry us . |
| 13 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 14 | Okay , there was a survey carried out by British Telecom , and they asked some of their customers what were the most frustrating things that can happen to you on the telephone , and this was the answer , and some of the things that you 've come up with are here . |
| 15 | Q. Surely there are all sorts of problems that can happen ? |
| 16 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 17 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 18 | But it is not the worst thing that can happen . |
| 19 | It 's sometimes worth asking that nagging little voice what is really the worst thing that can happen now ? |
| 20 | Remind yourself that blushing is not the worst thing that can happen to you . |
| 21 | That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being . |
| 22 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 23 | Then , when everything fell apart so quickly , that scared me even more , because failing at something like that is just about the most frightening thing that can happen to you . ’ |
| 24 | This is the most exciting thing that can happen in a school corridor , short of giraffes fighting . |
| 25 | The worst thing that can happen — |
| 26 | What is the worst thing that can happen when organising a tour ? |
| 27 | The worst thing that can happen is for the boat to become totally inverted and here you need to slide the daggerboard quickly out before it drops through the hull . |
| 28 | Like the other parties , it knows full well that extremism is the worst thing that can happen to a good cause . |
| 29 | But that 's the kind of thing that can happen , cos y people are n't aware . |
| 30 | So y you see there 's another s strange funny thing that can happen you see . |