Example sentences of "[vb -s] happen [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most unintentional stalls occur , by definition , unexpectedly and usually the first obvious sign of what has happened is that the pilot is banging the stick on the rear stop with the nose still dropping — a frightening feeling . |
| 2 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 3 | Historically , what has happened is that the rock vanguard has shifted its focus from eroticism to the psychedelic powers of horror . |
| 4 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 5 | What has happened is that on conversion they have had a host of non-Christian friends . |
| 6 | All that has happened is that the relations of production have been turned into historicized human relations . |
| 7 | However , if what has happened is that the person has Taken the Side of the Other , then there need not have been attitude-change in the traditional sense . |
| 8 | From another point of view , what has happened is that an older Left position , whose model of an anti-commercial , genuinely ‘ popular ’ culture is ‘ folk ’ music ( regarded as a useful source primarily because of its potential for politically progressive lyric content ) , has been rewritten with an emphasis on the progressive potential of new , electrically mediated form , and its capacity to recreate community as an ‘ echo ’ of the ‘ folk ’ . |
| 9 | What has happened is that an alibi has been set up , for a wounded man " could not " have committed the murder that took place immediately afterwards some distance away . |
| 10 | However , what actually has happened is that accidents for the 16–19-age-working groups have increased , so the comparison is hardly reassuring ( Guardian 19.8.89 ) . |
| 11 | You may not credit it , but what has happened is that the story has been retold , adjusted , updated ; it has shuffled nearer . |
| 12 | What has happened is that the tax system has become less progressive , the changes having benefited those on high incomes who now surrender a smaller proportion of their earnings in the form of tax . |
| 13 | But of course what has happened is that the capital base has been eroded , and the future value of the sold asset will not accrue to the organization . |
| 14 | Although this picture looks complicated , all that has happened is that the handle plus blade have been duplicated to make the other half of the scissors . |
| 15 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 16 | What has happened is that something latent within us has been stirred to new life , and that scent , or whatever , has been the symbolic object for us , leading us beyond itself to a personal memory . |
| 17 | What has happened is that all of the tiresome lags in adjustment of activity to changes in monetary policy which used to worry macroeconomists have been dramatically foreshortened by the introduction of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 18 | And what has happened is that they have done your one extra teacher and the extra books bit and they 're finishing up effectively going into liquidation . |
| 19 | What needs to happen is that the trade should be made aware of the shortlist ; the media must pick up the vibes ; and the winner should be available in paperback ( Emily will be a Pan in October . |
| 20 | What tends to happen is that bands which are good have also got a bit more wit and charm than the regular outfit |
| 21 | And where defining requirements is difficult what tends to happen is that we do n't bother . |
| 22 | So what tends to happen is that females invest in parental , i in their offspring , males put their effort into mating success . |
| 23 | Right , it 's not impossible because what tends to happen is that you can erm , you can change the product mix of what the consumer receives . |
| 24 | It 's quicker to sort those rather than those because what tends to happen is that you process them as an entity rather than as single figures . |
| 25 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 26 | In fact the rule fails to show the full complexity of the morpheme boundary constraint ; what appears to happen is that if another syllable intervenes raising and lengthening fails , unless that syllable is an inflectional morpheme . |
| 27 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
| 28 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 29 | All that 's happened is that , in switching from rock to soul , agit-pop has shifted emphasis from denunciation to affirmation , or what has been called offensive optimism . |
| 30 | ‘ We did attempt to do that in the early stages , for example with Ascom Timeplex , but generally what 's happened is that the distribution relationships have been less than perfect , ’ explains Howard . |