Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happens [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing they have in common is that they are all outgoing , extrovert , self-confident , irrepressible and generally sparky personalities — which just happens to be a pretty good recipe for attractiveness in a woman , as well as being the ideal make-up for sales . ’ |
| 2 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 3 | I 'm going to multiply it by another number which also happens to be a hundred to the power a half . |
| 4 | Fresh from the USA , the Expo makes its UK debut in Scotland from 5–7 March 1993 , which also happens to be the European Year of Older People . |
| 5 | Of interest is the Gothic cathedral in Magdeburg , the market square in Halle and the Bauhaus museum in nearby Dessau ( which also happens to be the birthplace of Händel ) . |
| 6 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 8 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 9 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 10 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
| 11 | Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar . |
| 12 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 13 | Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country . |
| 14 | ‘ Guy is not a yuppie , ’ Charles remonstrated , in the voice he reserved for humouring his little sister when she was being most irritating , ‘ He just happens to be a very successful … ’ her brother hesitated a fraction as if searching for the most appropriate description ‘ … entrepreneur . ’ |
| 15 | It also happens to be a disastrous blow to Test cricket 's normally well-guarded sanctity as the supreme form of the game 's expression . |
| 16 | It also happens to be a favourite animal for ethological experiments . |
| 17 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 18 | He also happens to be the founder of one of the most beautiful islands in the Grenadines : Palm Island , 130 acres of tropical splendour . |
| 19 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |