Example sentences of "happen to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , and that one happens to be Ethel Bethel . |
| 2 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |
| 3 | All right , it 's true that the marathon souvenir happens to be soreness and stiffness , but what else did you expect ? |
| 4 | happens to be Virgil , and you like his poems . |
| 5 | Some do it because they want to belong to a group where sniffing happens to be part of the group 's activities . |
| 6 | It happens to be part of a small chain of hotels , but you can ignore the broader aspects of the company 's activities for the purposes of this particular case and treat it simply as a problem in unit management . |
| 7 | Whiskers sometimes grow by accident from the surface of metals and if the metal happens to be part of an electrical device then there is likely to be a short circuit which will be annoying , expensive or dangerous according to the circumstances ( Plate 9 ) . |
| 8 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 9 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 10 | These journeys , operated by Edinburgh Transport and S.M.T. under contract to Lothian Regional Council , are specified so as to give residents of Ratho an opportunity to reach the nearest large shopping and business centre , which happens to be Edinburgh . |
| 11 | Incidentally , mooning is n't one of my habits but for another canoeist to refer to the ‘ dork2 who owns a red Escort van is a rather nebulous description of someone who could fall into that category simply because he owns a red van and whose hobby happens to be canoeing — it makes one feel guilty without trial . |
| 12 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 13 | This edition happens to be Bunty 's 25th Anniversary edition . |
| 14 | Do you it 's amazing when he stops at a Happy Eater to have a fry-up , that there happens to be television cameras and the world 's press there . |
| 15 | Right well now , the secret bit , this happens to be John 's birthday , |
| 16 | Ours happens to be food . |
| 17 | Playing Mary is Kathleen Campbell , 35 , who happens to be Hannigan 's fiancee . |
| 18 | If that happens to be investment advice well then so be it . |
| 19 | IF YOUR name happens to be Ebeneezer Scrooge you may think otherwise , but a Christmas without crackers is one that passes with a whimper rather than a bang . |
| 20 | When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach . |
| 21 | We 'll never know if we do n't try it at Czerny 's tempo which also happens to be Beethoven 's for his Scherzo . |
| 22 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 23 | His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity . |
| 24 | Finding accommodation in London is difficult in any circumstances , and this couple happen to be Australians who do n't intend to stay permanently , but are anxious to see their daughter through her physiotherapy training here , and take her back with them afterwards . |
| 25 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 26 | Perhaps , but not if they do not know about you , if they have no money , or if they all happen to be cat lovers ! |
| 27 | ‘ I happen to be chairman of the medical panel . ’ |
| 28 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 29 | Olsen points out that this sort of imagery is alienating for poets who happen to be women ; I would point out in addition the rather sinister implication that men are somehow masters of language , so that they and not we are entitled to decide her fate . |
| 30 | He kills fourteen engineering students , who happen to be women , and then himself . |