Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 2 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 3 | Playing football , telling a joke or making model aeroplanes are normally seen as second-order experiences , unless one happens to be a professional footballer , a comedian or a model aeroplane manufacturer . |
| 4 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 5 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |