Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 2 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 3 | So , the idea was that Finniston bought out this report which would then form another strata over the institutions and form the Engineering Council , of which I happen to be a member . |
| 4 | Ego relishes any notion that there is one ‘ true ’ religion , which you happen to belong to ! |
| 5 | K ap is true because in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you believe that you are sitting reading , and the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading are either worlds in which you are standing/kneeling/lying reading or worlds in which you are sitting knitting/watching TV , etc. , but not worlds in which you happen to be asleep dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 6 | Devotees of Pevsner know , on opening a volume of The Buildings of England , to look for the section headed ‘ Perambulation ’ for whichever town or village in which they happen to find themselves . |
| 7 | In addition to obtaining a better understanding of the biological basis underlying reproduction , we also need more knowledge to evaluate reproductive customs in the cultural environment in which they happen . |
| 8 | The acquisition of skills is governed by the current needs of particular societies and by the adaptation of individuals within the societies in which they happen to find themselves . |
| 9 | And in so far as it , as the question arises erm of what kind of , of provisions erm are you going to find if you go abroad , erm then I think we can say that within the European Community , erm citizens of one member state are entitled to what the citizens of the member state in which they happen to be staying are entitled to . |
| 10 | I think that they are erm unfortunately erm affected by any event which happens in an area in which they happen to be . |
| 11 | You know what can be done elsewhere and how we can best utilize existing staff , it may well be as somebody has said , that I mean we 've got Rachel there , just to pick on one post , where you 're , cos it 's one I happen to know what 's she , what 's she supposed to be doing . |
| 12 | The first type is casual encounters along the beat , so that neighbourhood police pass friendly comments with whoever they happen to meet , such as people working in front gardens , the unemployed , customers in shops , old folks trying to cross busy roads , mothers with young children in push-chairs and prams , young children being especially appealing to the older family men who seem to predominate in the Neighbourhood Unit , only one of whom is not married . |
| 13 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 14 | By this , he did not mean that truth is simply subjective , merely my own opinion , what I happen to like to regard as true . |
| 15 | Even obscura such as The Houseplant Disc ( a database to help you pick the right ones for the right situations ) or Bon Appetit ( which suggests recipes based on your input of what you happen to have in the fridge ) are , in the right situation , useful . |
| 16 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 17 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 18 | The key assumption here remains , of course , that the identity of an ontological existent , or , more accurately , its ontological individuality , depends upon all of this existent 's properties , and hence that if any of them were different from what they happen to be , the existent itself would be different . |
| 19 | A substance is necessarily such that all its properties are " essential " properties , in the sense that they all together define its " nature " , and if any of them were missing or were different from what they happen to be , the substance itself would be different . |
| 20 | ‘ Odd items of jewellery fall out of anything you happen to pick up ; photographs are mixed up with underclothes … |