Example sentences of "often happens " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 2 | My new friend and I had picked up two mad women , I said , and we 'd taken lots of this and that and one thing had led to another , as often happens when young people get together . |
| 3 | Nor does the RUC consider these aspects of community policing to be scarce resources , thus there is no restriction on their deployment to those limited number of areas where there are particular problems , as often happens in Great Britain ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 10 ) . |
| 4 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 5 | AS OFTEN happens near mountains in spring , the temperature fell 10 degrees overnight . |
| 6 | But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress . |
| 7 | As often happens with highly endangered species , this dolphin has been much sought after as a rare specimen for overseas aquaria , and has been captured for display in the US and Switzerland . |
| 8 | ‘ It often happens [ as in dreams and fevers ] that we perceive things that do not exist . ’ |
| 9 | Yet , as often happens in the House of Commons , the predictions of a major confrontation proved false . |
| 10 | The bridegroom was a very tall young man with reddish hair , a very big man altogether , and as so often happens then , the bride was very small . |
| 11 | As so often happens , a sound case was weakened by one of its more fanatical advocates . |
| 12 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 13 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 14 | It would be useless to start compiling the leaflets at the beginning of July , but that 's what often happens . |
| 15 | As often happens , this younger generation of ‘ Tractarians ’ who were leading the crusade on the side of ‘ collectivism ’ joined forces with the older generation like J. A. Macfadyen who had remained Calvinist in their views and ‘ deplored the modern nondenominational spirit , the temper of indifference to questions of church order ’ , the spirit which saw local churches as ‘ mere voluntary associations for religious purposes , with power to determine their own polity and prescribe their own sphere of action ’ . |
| 16 | As often happens with medical advances , the scientists stumbled across the vaccine by chance . |
| 17 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 18 | It often happens that young children find it enormously difficult to ‘ surrender power ’ . |
| 19 | As so often happens , Russia 's intelligence agencies have changed names several times . |
| 20 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 21 | The fact is , that though strong natural genius is always accompanied with strong natural tendency to its object , yet it often happens that the tendency is found where the Genius is wanting . |
| 22 | And as so often happens when ‘ victims ’ have the chance to tell their own story , the lasting impression is of human dignity . |
| 23 | This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years . |
| 24 | Storage is concerned with space and , conveniently as so often happens , requirements can be summed up in an acronym this time SPACES which stands for — |
| 25 | As so often happens , the passage of time showed an increasing number of disadvantages of the treatment , including a greater frequency of heart disease and strokes in men receiving oestrogens . |
| 26 | His success depended , as so often happens in research , on entirely fortuitous events , of the kind which sometimes contribute as much as careful planning to the attainment of desired objectives . |
| 27 | As often happens , being a group of good intelligences together , they spurred each other on , and John easily held his own among them . |
| 28 | This is especially necessary in dealing with large subject areas where — as often happens — only a part of the subject may be revised . |
| 29 | On the other hand , where maggots are regularly fed into the water in swims which bream frequent , it very often happens that they take over completely and all other baits , including bread , are ignored almost entirely . |
| 30 | This often happens when there is a finance and general purposes sub-committee . |