Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] happen to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | U. supporters who happen to be at the fete will have extra motivation for hitting the net behind Wesley . |
| 2 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 3 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 4 | Back to the RSPCA campaign — while admirable , it does give the impression that the 1000 dogs destroyed daily are all good-tempered , potentially healthy young dogs who happen to be without a home . |
| 5 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 6 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm calling a friend who happened to be in London with me , ’ he drawled coolly . |
| 8 | George Taylor was collected and he and Mrs Oliver returned to the tobacconists ' to be joined shortly by PC Chandler , an off-duty policeman who happened to be in Higatt 's too . |
| 9 | The reason is that heads of chambers are not required to notify vacant tenancies to a central office , so that there can be fair competition for them ; the tenancy is given to the person who happens to be on the spot and who is acceptable , or to a relative of the head of chambers , or otherwise by favour . |
| 10 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 12 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 13 | Few people are aware how men , who on the whole are more socially , economically , politically , and physically powerful than women , use these resources frequently to batter wives and cohabitees ( Dobash and Dobash 1981 ) , sexually harass their female ( usually subordinate ) co-workers , or assault/rape any woman who happens to be in the way ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 14 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're two different people who happen to be in the same business . |
| 16 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 17 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 18 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
| 19 | Formal goals may be displaced by informal and incompatible goals that reflect the interests of members who happen to be in a position to substitute their goals for those of ‘ the organization ’ . |
| 20 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 21 | The last sentence of each of ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) is structurally ambiguous between putting some biscuits into a bowl which happens to be on the floor , and putting some biscuits , which happen to be in a bowl , on the floor . |
| 22 | There was an especially rapid growth of the textile industry in these towns which happened to be on the coalfield where the cost of transporting fuel was small . |
| 23 | Generally , they were the cast-offs of two children in the house who happened to be about her own age , and this could mean a pretty frock coming her way , but only if , Mrs Aggie said , she kept her nose clean . |
| 24 | The fact that Murphy considers himself first and foremost a businessman who happens to be in PR helps to explain the care with which the decision to sell PRCS was taken . |
| 25 | It all began on Saturday evening with Stuart ( or Sir Parker of Westminster ) and myself ( Mistress Margaret , house keeper to which ever castle we happen to be at ) driving around Totnes trying to find the St John 's Ambulance Hall . |