Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] happen in " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This is the most valuable way of working out a first scene and happens in Ronzeo and Juliet .
2 Specifically I dream about the old man 's parchment hands with their cheroot fingers , endlessly rolling the container in his hand , this movement polishing and burnishing it , an insistent but unexplained movement of the sort that happens in dreams .
3 In other words , little ozone holes , several hundreds of kilometres across , may be forming in middle latitudes during the winter rather than one large hole , several thousands of kilometres across , forming over the pole in springtime as happens in Antarctica .
4 The stuff that happened in the ‘ 70s was not black cinema .
5 We did n't lose hold of the management of the economy as happened in other republics , ’ said Viktor Alampiev , head of parliament 's economic reforms commission .
6 There would be the same backlash and bitterness as happened in Scotland .
7 Often the topics explored may be quite different from the ostensible main subject or happening in the picture .
8 This was a routine dawn incident that happened in Tuffah last month .
9 I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’
10 They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be .
11 But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk .
12 But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization .
13 Well undoubtedly the first thing that happened in St Aldate 's , the most important thing , was after the battle of Edgefield , when the King rode in in state erm in victory he said , though the fact that the battle was indecisive , and it was described by a very royalist writer Anthony Wood , you may have heard of , is a university antiquarian erm very much on the university and royalist side .
14 The agreement must be clear or the inducement strong — not merely the making of an interim payment as happened in Deerness v John R Keeble & Son ( Brantham ) Ltd .
15 ‘ Very high increases could lead to a recession as happened in the late 1970s and early 80s due to the oil price hikes .
  Next page