Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] happen [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , it 's true that the marathon souvenir happens to be soreness and stiffness , but what else did you expect ? |
| 2 | ‘ Because Meredith Williams happens to be male , ’ he said flatly . |
| 3 | The chosen policy for governmental fund operating statements happens to be the flow of financial resources measurement focus defined as ( GASB , 1990 , p. 559 ) : |
| 4 | The wine waiter happened to be carrying a very rare bottle indeed . |
| 5 | One quite serious limitation in the original selection of these authorities lay in the criterion for selection which seemed to rest in the main on those authorities whose drama advisers happened to be currently in favour with H.M.I . |
| 6 | Jo Stephenson Jo Stephens happens to be a woman . |
| 7 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact , however , the Bristol-Coventry game happened to be running five minutes late . |
| 9 | What the mother finally decides to do will probably result from the opinion of someone else — whether that someone is her own mother , the local midwife or whichever childcare expert happens to be in vogue at the time . |
| 10 | Young Paul happened to be home when she mentioned it , and looked up over his spectacles . |
| 11 | Almost certainly the right forefinger , unless Gerry Boden happened to be a southpaw . |
| 12 | And of course what I want to know most of all is why Paul 's number plate happened to be in Lord Cumbermound 's stable . ’ |
| 13 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 14 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 15 | So I was learning from my own mistakes and others at the time er things like getting the right county where the New Brighton happen to be and things like that I was learning . |
| 16 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , PC Dickens happened to be a writer too . |
| 18 | When the up to date fashion happens to be close fitting , then making a garment with a normal allowance for movement will be just right , but you will still need to add extra stitches to let the cables draw in . |
| 19 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 20 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |
| 21 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |