Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] happen [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too are just the horns the Riders happen to be blowing , but they carry meaning in a more complicated way as well . |
| 2 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 3 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 4 | And the words happened to be so very true … |
| 5 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 6 | Without realising it , she is facing the otherwise unadmitted truth about father 's inability to assume responsibility , or mother 's suppressed craving for power , or whatever the problems happen to be in her particular environment . |
| 7 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 8 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 9 | However , following one reflection by another reflection constitutes a rotation about the intersection of the mirrors , unless the mirrors happen to be parallel , in which case the product is a translation ( Figure 2 ) . |