Example sentences of "can happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is only one of the things that can happen to the electrons , but it is the one which is of interest in the production of TL . |
| 2 | If this sort of thing can happen to him , especially a year after Mr Dalglish gave in to the pressure , then everyone is vulnerable . |
| 3 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 4 | To see a disturbed animal rehomed several times and to witness the disastrous consequences and schizophrenic mess of a dog which results , one soon realises there are worse things which can happen to a dog than to be humanely destroyed . |
| 5 | A stream of lava is a long and complicated object and a great many things can happen to it , depending on its own physical condition and the sort of ground it is moving over . |
| 6 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 7 | We all know that accidents can happen to anyone , at any time . |
| 8 | It can happen to anyone . ’ |
| 9 | To comfort her a friend said –These days it can happen to anyone . ’ |
| 10 | They know that other unhappy things can happen to people like road accidents or other illnesses . |
| 11 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 12 | Unfortunate accidents can happen to the unwary traveller . ’ |
| 13 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 14 | All sorts of things can happen to bright young figures in a Labour intake . |
| 15 | BRISTOL CITY boss Denis Smith , painfully familiar with what can happen to a manager at Christmas , introduces two wingers against Peterborough at Ashton Gate today in an effort to relieve the pressure . |
| 16 | Remind yourself that blushing is not the worst thing that can happen to you . |
| 17 | Arguments , aggression , even complete relationship breakdowns can happen to anyone . |
| 18 | That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's partly because , being unaccustomed to serious illness , they ca n't believe something like that can happen to them , partly because they do n't want to believe it . |
| 20 | It was just about as bad an accident as can happen to a nuclear-power station — an explosion and a fire that scattered fissile fuel all over the site and sent radioactive smoke and dust across thousands of square miles . |
| 21 | If all this can happen to a person who 's lost a job , you can see how it can affect the whole family . |
| 22 | And she knows that the secret of laughter is shared experience — laughing together at disasters and embarrassments that can happen to us all . |
| 23 | As we shall see strange things , involving complex arithmetical manipulations , can happen to it in the process of transfer . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing can happen to a new ship like this . |
| 25 | And I 'm taut with fear , she reproached herself , when all that can happen to me is to be thrown out of this damned clinic . |
| 26 | If that can happen to one of the most prestigious shopping streets in the world , we can be sure that dispossessin' is in for a good run . |
| 27 | Do n't forget that accidents can happen to you , too ! |
| 28 | As at the Beginning the gifts of Pentecost have been renewed to a parched Church , and It can happen to Anybody . |
| 29 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
| 30 | I know the falls that can happen to young girls ; it 's an amazing thing , when you think how supple their bodies are , how round and well-padded — yes , my little signorina Rosalba , what terrible falls can happen ! ’ |