Example sentences of "happens to be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |
| 2 | All right , it 's true that the marathon souvenir happens to be soreness and stiffness , but what else did you expect ? |
| 3 | Some do it because they want to belong to a group where sniffing happens to be part of the group 's activities . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ours happens to be food . |
| 11 | If that happens to be investment advice well then so be it . |