Example sentences of "[is] not what happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in all these descriptions , as in his characters and his story lines , we are taken from the particular to the general ; we are led to see that it is not what happens that is important nor what effect action has on the people concerned , but what meaning we can extract , or guess at , from the impact on our senses and our intellect of the whole . |
| 2 | A language-centred description typically suggests that speech-sounds are objects that can actually change ( [ a ] can ‘ become ’ [ o ] , and so forth ) , when this is not what happens at all . |
| 3 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
| 4 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 5 | Mr Goldring added : ‘ What is really significant in this case is not what happened to each child individually , it is that there were so many collapses . ’ |
| 6 | But this is not what happened in the early seventies . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not what happens to you , but how you cope with it , that 's important , ’ she told herself , as she tackled the cobwebs in the lofty rooms . |
| 8 | I now know that it 's not what happens in the good times that counts , but how you survive the bad — disastrous holidays , financial crises , illnesses . |
| 9 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
| 10 | I was meant to grow up something like Desi Arnaz Jnr and that 's not what happened . ’ |
| 11 | That 's not what happened . |